Devotional Indian Songs
videos below
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videos below
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Shane Magee has joined the writing team for our Self Development blog. Shane’s first articles included a guide to establishing a regular meditation practice. Useful tips, even for those who have been meditating a long time
Sharani offers some suggestions for increasing gratitude in our lives. Sri Chinmoy wrote many poems on Gratitude.
A gratitude-heart
Is a heavenly miracle
That is visible
Here on earth.
– Sri Chinmoy
Music I am Listening to
Sand drawings – amazing video of woman painting with sand
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“BBC English – BBC English is used by many people to mean the proper pronunciation of English words, or a standard accent. Recently, though, the BBC have completely ruined this by employing people with all sorts of regional accents, including cockneys who really don’t talk proper at all mate!”
There is a very good video offering snapshots of Lord Buddha’s life here at Roam Resort. The video captures the essence of Buddha’s life, with great simplicity. The flute music of Sri Chinmoy provides an appropriate backdrop to the life of Buddha. When I think of the Buddha, the first thing that springs to mind are Peace and Nirvana. These are hard to put into words, which is why it is good to leave somethings unsaid.
Sri Chinmoy wrote a beautiful play about the life of Lord Buddha at Sri Chinmoy Library. In his introduction to the play Sri Chinmoy wrote:
For centuries the light of the Buddha has shone as a beacon beckoning men from across the sea of darkness. Like lost children, millions of seekers have reached out to the light with their heart’s inmost cry, and the Buddha has shown them the Way. The world stood before the Buddha with it’s ignorance, and the Buddha, the Enlightened One, gave man Truth. The world offered its age old suffering to the Buddha’s heart and the Buddha, Lord of Compassion, showed man the Dharma.
Thanks to Pong of Roam Resort for sharing this
Photo credit: Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
These word explanations are from: The Uxbridge English Dictionary Seventeenth Edition (approx) Completely revived As heard on “I’m sorry I haven’t a clue.”
English words and their Real meaning:
And there’s more. If you want more of the same, there is a whole post of Uxbridge English dictionary here
There was me thinking checking your stats was a bad habit, waste of time and inefficient use ofresources. But, actually, it is a way to write poetry! see: Keyword Haiku So here is the beginning of my poetic adventure. (I once wrote a poem, but, it was something about a computer being good because it was er.. not made out of wood) so as you can see my keyword statistics are far better at generating poetry than me.
from: tejvan.co.uk/
never give up poems
shambhu sri
never give up poem
tejvan’s blog
poems never give up
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how does the yogi mahasamadhi
poems about giving up
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ode to joy Bernstein
pictures of the spirit leaving the body at death
2007 national hill climb
who invented crosswords co uk
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hill climb training
winter in oxford
kyudo blogs
how to achieve mahasamadhi
picture of a lighthouse
BTW the order of these keyword searches remains exactly the same as it appeared in stats, but some search results were omitted)
Statistics from Richardpettinger.com
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Some inspiring, some not so inspiring.
The inspiring
Effective ways to get out of a negative mindset – an article by Tejvan for Sri Chinmoy Inspiration self improvement blog
Video Podcast of friend Stephen Hopson. Stephen is deaf from birth and makes his living as a motivational speaker. He has a blog Adversity University with some interesting articles.
Learning to Live by Sumangali
Life Voices – new blog of Kedar
Bob Dylan recites the Lock and Key poem by Sri Chinmoy at Priyadarshan.org
Only slightly less inspiring.
Shardul shows his age with a folk video from the 1950s (interestingly I saw an excellent film about Woodie Guthrie recently )
Not Necessarily Inspiring at All
A good reason to be vegetarian
The Difference between Economists and non Economists at the Economics Essay blog
Music I am Listening to
Videos I am Watching
What I’m Dreaming of
Cycling heaven – Cycling Tubes to go around cities (link coming soon)
What I am doing too much of
Checking email
What I should be doing more of
Singing Spiritual Songs
Picture courtesy of Unmesh Swanson, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
New Stumble account: http://tejvan.stumbleupon.com
I have heard many versions of Ave Maria, but, I really like this one. The singing is soulful and humble. Sometimes singers give real virtuoso performances, but, this version sticks to the spiritual essence of the song.
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IF TOMMY COOPER WERE ALIVE TODAY……
I met this bloke with a didgeridoo and he was playing Dancing Queen on it. I thought, “That’s Aboriginal.”
This lorry full of tortoises collided with a van full of terrapins. It was a turtle disaster.
I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley. She said “Ten pin?” I said, “No, permanent.”
I went in to a pet shop. I said, “Can I buy a goldfish?” The guy said, “Do you want an aquarium?” I said, “I don’t care what star sign it is.”
I was at a Garden Centre and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver.
I went to the local video shop and I said “Can I borrow Batman Forever?” He said, “No, you’ll have to bring it back tomorrow”
I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said “Analogue.” I said “No, just a watch.”
I went into a shop and I said, “Can someone sell me a kettle.” The bloke said “Kenwood” I said, “Where is he then?”
My mate is in love with two schoolbags. He’s bisatchel.
I went to the doctor. I said to him “I’m frightened of lapels.” He said, “You’ve got cholera.”
I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can’t remember his name, it’s P something T something R.
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Another great clip from Monty Python. A brilliant version of the classic Yorkshireman’s sketch.