http://www.shanemagee.com/blog inspiration circulation Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:42:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/meditation/learning-to-concentrate 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 ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/weightlifting/an-experience-of-sri-chinmoys-weightlifting 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 ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/sri-chinmoy/my-favourite-photograph-of-sri-chinmoy At the end of each meditation function, we generally have the Indian traditional custom of prasad i.e. food that is blessed by the master before being offered to everyone at the function. I dareday some of the fondest memories many of Sri Chinmoy's students have are of when he was ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/sri-chinmoy/prasad-with-sri-chinmoy My fellow students of Sri Chinmoy, Tejvan Pettinger and Sumangali Morhall, have recently posted very amusing poems based on the top keyword searches for their respective sites tejvan.co.uk and sumangali.org. Of course they had the good sense and decorum to limit their poems to the first 25 searches, but I ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/joy/keyword-savitri-not-to-be-outdone I am just after finishing what might possibly be one of the most intense experiences of my short span of life so far. A couple of weeks ago, myself, Colm and Matthias participated in our first hill race (thats where the above photo comes from), and enjoyed it so much ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/sri-chinmoy/a-race-for-insane-people One day during my visit to the Dominican Republic, a group of us decided to take a day to explore a cave in a national park perhaps three hours drive from where we were staying. Upon arrival we were all fitted out with caving gear and then given a horse ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/sri-chinmoy/a-bunch-of-cowboys 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 ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/sri-chinmoy/sri-chinmoythe-delight-of-existence 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 ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/sri-chinmoy/some-poems-from-two-of-sri-chinmoys-books I thought I'd share with you something I picked up yesterday on the flute. I recorded it with GarageBand, which by default gives you a metronome to accompany you. At first I thought it was a good idea, as my sense of rhythm is a bit all over the place, ... http://www.shanemagee.com/blog/sri-chinmoy/a-tune-i-learned-yesterday