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Sri Chinmoy’s birthday August 27th 2016
Sri Chinmoy was born 27th August, 1931 in Shakpura, Chittagong, India (now part of Bangladesh). For disciples of Sri Chinmoy, August 27th is a special day, which we mark with a race, meditation and musical performances. This year, there were perhaps 1,000 people from all over the world who came to meet in Jamaica, Queens, […]
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Practising Japa
When I joined Sri Chinmoy’s path, I was very keen to improve my meditation. I read the Meditation book by Sri Chinmoy and tried different meditation exercises, which were in the Meditation book. Amongst other exercises, I remember putting a picture of a black dot on the wall and staring at it for a few […]
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Meditation – self effort and grace
An interesting feature about meditation is that sometimes, when you make a lot of effort, it feels like nothing really happens. Yet, at other times, you make no seeming effort, but you can have a very good meditation. This is an experience I remember from Oslo in June 2001. I was late for a talk […]