{"id":239,"date":"2008-11-27T18:34:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T22:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=239"},"modified":"2011-10-05T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T10:43:51","slug":"learning-to-meditate-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Meditate in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/class-general.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240 aligncenter\" title=\"class-general\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/class-general.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/class-general.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/class-general-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year, the Sri Chinmoy Centre in New York offer free introductory meditation classes for people wishing to learn how to meditate. Recent classes have been well attended with over 400 people attending different sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The meditation classes are based on the teachings of meditation teacher, Sri Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy, born in India, lived in Queens, New York from April 1964 to his mahasamadhi in October 2007. As well as establishing a thriving meditation centre in New York, there are now Sri Chinmoy centres in over 60 different countries.<\/p>\n<p>The essence of meditation is to experience the peace buried deep within. As Sri Chinmoy says:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8221; I meditate<br \/>\nSo that I can inundate<br \/>\nMy entire being<br \/>\nWith the omnipotent<br \/>\nPower of peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.org\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about New York Meditation, kindly visit: <a title=\"NYC Meditation.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nycmeditation.org\">NYC meditation.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also pages at Sri Chinmoy Centre &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycmeditation.org\">New York Meditation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/13\/nyregion\/13chinmoy.html\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a> in New York Times<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jowan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the year, the Sri Chinmoy Centre in New York offer free introductory meditation classes for people wishing to learn how to meditate. Recent classes have been well attended with over 400 people attending different sessions. The meditation classes are based on the teachings of meditation teacher, Sri Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy, born in India, lived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning to Meditate in New York&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}