{"id":1810,"date":"2012-10-24T03:16:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2012-10-24T03:16:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:16:41","slug":"meditation-month-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Month, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Auckland, New Zealand, an October-long program of meditation courses, concerts, and other events attracted over 500 people to the Sri Chinmoy Centre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual Meditation Month activities. A highlight was the Music of the Heart<\/strong> concert\u00e2\u20ac\u201c 350 people filled a central city hall on a rainless Tuesday night. Guest performers – seven musicians from Europe, Ireland and the U.S. and all members of the international Sri Chinmoy Centres – \u00c2\u00a0joined with local\u00c2\u00a0 Centre members in various instrumental and vocal combinations, drawing from Sri Chinmoy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vast legacy of 22,000 compositions.<\/p>\n

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Music has the power to positively change and enrich our world and Sri Chinmoy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s songs \u00c2\u00a0are all unified by the recurring spiritual themes of inner peace, self-mastery, the quest for God-discovery – \u00c2\u00a0he saw music as a powerful way of uplifting and inspiring humanity, a universal language uniting people together as a oneness-world family. \u00c2\u00a0In the concert program Sri Chinmoy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own words describe this:<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/em>When we listen to soulful music, or when we ourselves play soulful music, immediately our inner existence climbs up high, higher, highest\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6A river is flowing through us, a river of consciousness, and this consciousness is all the time illumined.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

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A well received feature of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMusic of the Heart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong> concert was its audience involvement \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it invited concert-goers to bring their own meditative peacefulness to the evening, and to feel that both musicians and audience together could co-create an atmosphere of tranquility and joy.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Put aside the thoughts of the day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the concert program encouraged, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 and let the mind be wide and empty like a summer sky; concentrate for a few minutes on the calm rhythm of the breath, breathing deeply into the heart. Feel the music in your spiritual heart like a river of consciousness flowing in and through you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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The Music of the Heart<\/strong> tour party then went on to Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth and very successful concerts there. Commented one audience member: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Some of the music, especially the women singing a cappella<\/em> style, really touched my heart. It was a doorway into a forgotten part of myself, an unremembered inner space, and I found myself hoping the music would never end.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Auckland, New Zealand, an October-long program of meditation courses, concerts, and other events attracted over 500 people to the Sri Chinmoy Centre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual Meditation Month activities. A highlight was the Music of the Heart concert\u00e2\u20ac\u201c 350 people filled a central city hall on a rainless Tuesday night. Guest performers – seven musicians from Europe, … Continue reading “Meditation Month, 2012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"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=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}