{"id":1160,"date":"2011-10-04T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2011-10-04T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:02:10","slug":"online-meditation-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Online Meditation Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre frequently give free meditation classes in cities around the world, our online meditation guide can give a few insights into the practise of meditation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/meditation-speaks-silence-500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1161 aligncenter\" title=\"meditation-speaks-silence-500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/meditation-speaks-silence-500.jpg\" alt=\"meditation-speaks\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/meditation-speaks-silence-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/meditation-speaks-silence-500-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An online meditation guide can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/nz.srichinmoycentre.org\/meditation\/learn_meditation_online\">Online Meditation Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.Begin by thinking of meditation as a journey \u00e2\u20ac\u201c your own abiding happiness is the goal. If you are ready to begin this journey, then the guidelines in the following pages will greatly help you \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and now is the best time to start&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h4>What is Meditation?<\/h4>\n<p>Sri Chinmoy writes that meditation is the tool to try and reach a higher state of consciousness &#8211; A realm beyond the domain of thought.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; When we meditate, we do not think at all. The aim of meditation is to free ourselves from all thought. Thought is like a dot on a blackboard. Whether it is good or bad, it is there. Only if there is no thought whatsoever can we grow into the highest reality.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-1160-1' id='fnref-1160-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1160)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-1160'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-1160-1'> Sri Chinmoy, Fifty Freedom-Boats To One Golden Shore, Part 2, Agni Press, 1974.  <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-1160-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre frequently give free meditation classes in cities around the world, our online meditation guide can give a few insights into the practise of meditation. An online meditation guide can be found here: Online Meditation Guide &#8230;.Begin by thinking of meditation as a journey \u00e2\u20ac\u201c your own abiding happiness is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Online Meditation Guide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}