{"id":40,"date":"2007-06-15T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/2007\/06\/15\/the-blue-bird\/"},"modified":"2011-10-08T05:36:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T09:36:24","slug":"the-blue-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes Sri Chinmoy’s students will come together to open up an enterprise or business such as a shop or cafe – this means they can create a tranquil meditative atmosphere in which to work, and also for the public it means a peaceful oasis where they can come and unwind.<\/p>\n

In an article just published on the Sri Chinmoy Centre site, cafe owner Toshala Elliot describes one such enterprise – the Blue Bird cafe in Auckland, New Zealand, which has now been running for over 13 years. ‘The Blue Bird’ is actually a name that Sri Chinmoy suggested for the cafe. Sri Chinmoy, in his artwork, has frequently used the bird as a metaphor for the unhorizoned flight of the soul; similarly blue, the colour of the sea and the sky also evokes that feeling of meditative vastness.<\/p>\n

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