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In Sri Chinmoy's philosophy, concentration is an important prerequisite to meditation: Concentration is the Arrow. Meditation is the Bow. When you concentrate, you focus all your energies upon the chosen phenomenon in order to unveil its mysteries. When you meditate, you rise into a higher consciousness. Concentration wants to penetrate into the object it ...

Many of Sri Chinmoy's students read his poems and aphorisms as part of their meditation practice. Much of the time, people turn to his three major collections of aphorisms - Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, and Seventy-Seven Thousand Service Treees - but Sri Chinmoy also wrote many smaller collections ...

In his lifetime, my teacher engaged in so many fields of endeavour - spirituality, art, poetry, peace activism, composing songs, theatre, running, lecturing, cycling, instrumental performances, tennis, weightlifting - that it is often a challenging task explaining to anyone unfamiliar with my teacher's work exactly who Sri Chinmoy was and ...

I always enjoy hearing the myriad ways in which people embark upon the journey of self-discovery. When I was beginning to meditate, I eagerly devoured and personal accounts by people who meditated I came across, ehether it be in book form, video form or first-hand. I remember seeing this ...

I mentioned in a previous blog post my wish to take the reader on a guided tour of Aspiration-Ground in New York, the place where I consider to be my spiritual home. It is the place where my meditation Teacher, Sri Chinmoy, spent much of the last 25 years of ...

When in New York to visit my teacher Sri Chinmoy, I often have occasion to stop by my friend Anugata's house which is just up the hill from Aspiration-Ground, not least because of the free internet connection that can be obtained if you lean your computer a certain way against ...