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Everyday I make a resolution not to read the paper. Nearly every day, I fail.

But, I can admire the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson:

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

I wanted to try spend 24 hours without any access to news. Was it possible? Will the world stop revolving? What will happen to all those spare minutes saved?

I wrote about experience here: problem 24 hour news

Related

• The only news I know – Poem by Emily Dickinson

The Sri Chinmoy 3,100 mile race is held every year in New York. I’ve never been part of it – only admiring from a distance, but this is a good, short insight into some of the aspects of the race.

I organise a couple of 2, 3 and 4 mile races for Sri Chinmoy A.C. in Oxford. We get a good turnout from local runners, who appreciate the chance to run around the Peace Mile in Cutteslowe Park, Oxford.

Still, it’s a bit easier than the logistics of organising a 3100 mile race!

The film Challenging Impossibility is coming to Bristol in March 2012.

It will be an exciting exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting equipment, with also several screenings of the film Challenging Impossibility.

I was once lifted by Sri Chinmoy, (a relative meagre 135lbs). In the above photo, Sri Chinmoy is lifting 200lbs with each hand from a seated posture. This 400lb lift was during a long weightlifting exhibition in New York, I was also lucky enough to attend. There was perhaps 500 people in the room, watching the 70 year old Sri Chinmoy, lift weights which really defied his age and build.

 

Here we are presenting a ‘Torch Bearer Award’ to Mark Williams and his ‘mindfulness team’ for their contribution in helping people overcome long-term depression through meditation / mindfulness. For me it is a rare outing into a jacket.

It was great to have the World Harmony Run come through Oxford.

William Blake – To See a World in a Grain of Sand

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

– Walt Whitman (from Song of Myself)

Happiness Will Follow You by Tejvan Pettinger is a book with articles on ideas for self-improvement. Articles include:

• Loving difficult people
• How to Gain Inner Peace
• How to avoid misunderstanding.

The book includes contributions by Nirbhasa  Magee. There are also a few selected stories by Sri Chinmoy on the theme of self-improvement.

Happiness Will Follow You at Amazon UK

Happiness Will Follow You at Amazon US

 

Song of the Soul Oxford

A recent visit to the iconic Glastonbury Tor. A great day out of meditation, cake and coffee; not necessarily in that order.

meditation on the unknown

Samadhi or snoremadhi?

The likely lads

A hill