November 30th, 2009 — photos
This week’s featured gallery is Nature’s Beauty – Celestial by Unmesh Swanson.
Unmesh, with his brother Ranjit, have been students of Sri Chinmoy since the early 1970s. They have travelled around the world and taken some great photos during their travels.
November 26th, 2009 — Enterprises
The Fragrance of the Heart is a popular cafe in the heart of Oslo, run by students of Sri Chinmoy.
Fragrance of the Heart
Recently, a second, Fragrance of the Heart cafe was opened in the centre of Oslo.
Fragrance of the Heart
In the background is a picture of Sri Chinmoy, playing the flute at the Eternal Peace Flame. The Eternal Peace Flame is also located in Oslo.
November 22nd, 2009 — Sri Chinmoy
During his lifetime, Sri Chinmoy composed many thousands of short poems which offer simple nuggets of spiritual wisdom and inspiration.
Some photographers have combined these aphorisms with inspiring pictures. A new section at Sri Chinmoy Poetry will be displaying some of these. If you have your own photo / aphorisms then feel free to share them with us.
Photo by Pavitrata
November 18th, 2009 — Sri Chinmoy
In many different cities, students of Sri Chinmoy offer free meditation classes for people interested in learning the art of meditation.
When learning to meditate, it is highly recommended to associate with other people who have been practising meditation for a while. We can consciously or unconsciously pick up inspiration from the other people who are meditating.
“When four persons do the same thing together they inspire one another. It is like a tug-of-war. When you are meditating with your group, there are four or five persons meditating together against only one person: ignorance, whereas when you meditate at home, you are one individual and ignorance is another individual. “
- Sri Chinmoy (Sri Chinmoy Library)
In this post, Devashishu Torpy explains he grew up learning to meditate and now now teaches meditation classes in his home city of London (London Meditation) and also other places he visits.
I give meditation classes on the authority of my teacher, Sri Chinmoy. I am a seeker, and as part of my spiritual discipline I have been given the opportunity to share my experiences and my limited knowledge with other seekers. That ‘sharing’ plays a vital role in my own journey of self discovery.
- Giving Meditation classes by Devashishu
November 16th, 2009 — Impossibility-Challenger, Self Transcendence
World records were ripped, bent, torn and smashed in Auckland, New Zealand recently, with 11 Guinness and 7 world records broken in the Impossibility-Challenger world record games.
Held November 14 at Auckland’s Trusts Stadium, the first time the impossibility challenging festival has been staged in New Zealand, the event saw two Guinness Records set by Swiss strongman and weightlifter Albert Walter, who first tore a 1440 page phone book in two and then snapped a 30cm long carpenter’s nail, with nothing more than bare hands and steely determination employed.
New Zealander Alistair Galpin, one of the top Guinness World Record breakers of the past decade, set nine new records on the day, including the most lit candles in the mouth, and the fastest time to shell a boiled egg. To celebrate, Galpin broke the record for the most high-fives in a minute.
Other impossible feats made possible included the fastest car tyre change by four employees of tyre company Frank Allen Tyres, the world’s longest balloon chain, the largest dot to dot drawing, and the fastest mile pushing a person in a shopping trolley.
The 16th staging of the event, Impossibility-Challenger was founded in 1982 by accomplished weightlifter and peace-visionary Sri Chinmoy, upon the ideals of self-transcendence and challenging limits, and was staged by the Sri Chinmoy Centre, a prolific non-profit organisation also responsible for the World Harmony Run—the world’s largest participant torch relay—and The Oneness-Heart Tears and Smiles humanitarian aid programme.
November 12th, 2009 — world harmony Run
Recently, the World Harmony Run visited Mexico for for five days, visiting local schools and spreading a message of peace and harmony. The run was enthusiastically received by local people who appreciated the opportunity to join in the spirit of the Harmony run.
World Harmony Runners
A video compilation of the Mexico tour can be viewed on the World Harmony Run website here
” This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel the presence of peace only in the loving heart. The doubting mind leads us to total frustration. The loving heart leads us to complete satisfaction.”
- Sri Chinmoy
Mexican Dancers who greeted the run
November 9th, 2009 — Impossibility-Challenger, Self Transcendence
On November 14th, Auckland, New Zealand, phone-books will be torn, carpenter’s nails broken, giant balloon hats made and shopping trolleys pushed in the name of challenging the impossible, and breaking Guinness and world records along the way.
Jumped, thrown and run successfully in Zurich, Switzerland and Munich, Germany since the 1980s, the Impossibility-Challenger festival of record smashing is being staged in New Zealand for the first time, and Director Budhsamudra Knox is confident that success will not be impossible—“We think Kiwis have what it takes to step up to the mark.”
Attempting to cross that mark, and in world record time, is an international field of participants including Alistair Galpin, the New Zealander with the most Guinness World Records, Albert Walter of Switzerland, a bench press champion who tears phone books better than anybody else, and a team of mechanics who will attempt the 4-man car wheel change world record.
The impossibility challenging event also encompasses the Self-Transcendence Games, where hundreds of school children will compete together with celebrities in just for fun events like hula-hoop racing and catching an egg thrown the greatest distance.
The Impossibility-Challenger games were founded in 1982 by the late peace visionary Sri Chinmoy, upon the premise that challenging limitations and the seemingly impossible not only brings the individual joy, but inspires others to transcend that which is challenging in their lives as well.
The event is organised by the Sri Chinmoy Centre, a prolific non-profit organisation also responsible for the world’s largest participant torch relay, the World Harmony Run, and The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles humanitarian aid programme.
November 6th, 2009 — photos
This weeks featured gallery is by Kedar Misani during a trip, by members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre, to Bali and the world heritage site of Borobudur.
Borobudur
For many centuries, Borobudur was deserted, but after being rediscovered in the nineteenth century, it has been overhauled and given protected status. Sri Chinmoy visited Borobudur on a number of occassions. He remarked on Borobudur:
“Those who have seen Borobudur have really seen something. It is so beautiful and it has such spiritual grandeur! I also like Kamakura.
Borobudur is the Buddha in the process of blossoming. Kamakura is the Buddha who has already blossomed. Borobudur has simplicity in purity and purity in simplicity. Kamakura has silence in power and power in silence. Both are totally different.”
- Sri Chinmoy
Excerpt from The World-Experience-Tree-Climber, Part 6 by Sri Chinmoy.
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November 3rd, 2009 — Sri Chinmoy
The Songs of the Soul tour began on Sunday with a warmly received concert in the Czech city of Zlín.
The full house audience was extremely moved by the concert, which featured performances by a range of artists (Adesh and Sadanand, Mandu and Visuddhi, Arthada’s group, Agnikana’s group, Pavaka Richot, and Matthijs Jongpier) culminating in the final performance by Gandharva Loka Orchestra (pictured above)
The Songs of the Soul concert series began in 2008 as a way of bringing the depth and beauty of Sri Chinmoy’s music to audiences worldwide in a variety of styles. Since then the concerts have taken place all around the world, in places ranging from Bali to St Petersburg.
Sunday was the beginning of a 9-day tour. On Monday, they played in Bratislava and tonight (Tuesday) and tomorrow they will play in the Hungarian cities of Budapest and Gyor. Also scheduled are concerts in the Austrian cities of Vienna, Salzburg and Graz, and in the Slovenian cities of Ljubljana and Maribor.
See songsofthesoul.com for more details…
November 2nd, 2009 — meditation
“…You can also know whether you had a good meditation by the way you feel afterwards. If peace, light, love and joy have come to the fore from within as a result of your meditation, then you will know that you have meditated well.”
- Sri Chinmoy
Excerpt from: Am I Meditating Well? by Sri Chinmoy
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