{"id":787,"date":"2010-05-26T03:23:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=787"},"modified":"2010-05-25T03:28:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T07:28:03","slug":"learning-to-meditate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Meditate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Question: How can we learn to meditate?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/menaka-guatemala-sun-set1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-788\" title=\"menaka-guatemala-sun-set\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/menaka-guatemala-sun-set1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/menaka-guatemala-sun-set1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/menaka-guatemala-sun-set1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sri Chinmoy:<\/em> The best way to begin to learn how to meditate is  to associate with poeple who have been meditating for some time. These  people are not in a position to teach you, but they are in a position to  inspire you. If you have some friends who know how to meditate, just  sit beside them while they are meditating. Unconsciously your inner  being will be able to derive some meditative power from them. You are  not stealing anything from them, but your inner being is taking help  from them without your outer knowledge&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>(Continue reading excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/books\/0174\">Meditation:  Humanity&#8217;s Race And Divinity&#8217;s Grace, Part 2<\/a> by Sri Chinmoy)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoycentre.org\/meditation\">Meditation<\/a> at Sri Chinmoy Centre<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/blog\/meditation\/basic-steps-for-learning-meditation\/\">Basic Steps to Learning Meditation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How can we learn to meditate? Sri Chinmoy: The best way to begin to learn how to meditate is to associate with poeple who have been meditating for some time. These people are not in a position to teach you, but they are in a position to inspire you. If you have some friends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning to Meditate&#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":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}