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- Do not have meditation-gardens Here, there and everywhere. Your meditation-garden has to be always Inside the very depths of your heart.
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- What do you want?
I want purity.
Meditate on the dreaming moon, preferably the full moon. Meditate on the blossoming dawn.
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- What do you want?
I want patience.
Meditate on an extremely long road. Meditate on the heart of a spiritual Master.
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- What do you want?
I want silence.
Meditate on the vastness of the sea. Meditate on the helplessness of the night.
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- What do you want?
I want success.
Meditate on the quickness of a deer. Meditate on the steadiness of a tortoise.
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- What do you want?
I want security.
Meditate on your God-loving feelings. Meditate on your newness, oneness and fulness heart.
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- What do you want?
I want inner strength.
Meditate on the self-sacrifice of a compassionate mother. Meditate on climbing flames.
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- What do you want?
I want generosity.
Meditate on the constant expansion of your own heart. Meditate on the blossoming morning.
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- What do you want?
I want integrity.
Meditate on the inspiration of your thoughts. Meditate on the honesty of your expressions.
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- What do you want?
I want integrity.
Meditate on the sound of your life. Meditate on the silence of your heart.
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- What do you want?
I want mirth.
Meditate on a child playing on drums at random. Meditate on a children’s park.
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- What do you want?
I want honour.
Meditate on the integrity of your thought and speech. Meditate on constant self-giving.
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- What do you want?
I want virtue.
Meditate on your own honest thoughts. Meditate on your capacity to appreciate others’ achievements.
- Question: Before becoming your disciple, I took a course in meditation in which they taught me a … Is that the way I should continue meditating? I feel I can meditate more than that.
- Sri Chinmoy: On my path you should meditate on your heart. … If your japa conflicts with the kind of meditation I ask you to do, and with your oneness with me, then … that it does not conflict at all and is only adding to the effectiveness of your present method of meditation … But do not spend all your meditation time in chanting. You should do pure meditation also....
- Question: As far as physical surroundings are concerned, where is the best place to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: We have to be sensible when we choose a place to meditate. … If we try to meditate in the street, a car will come and run us over. … If we decide to meditate in the kitchen, what kind of meditation will we have there? … Instead of meditating on God we will meditate on food. … We will get the best result from our meditation if we have a shrine in some quiet corner of our living...
- Question: Since I started meditating, I feel that I have become more vulnerable to wrong forces.
- Sri Chinmoy: This means that the meditation that you are doing is not right. … If you are meditating properly, it is impossible for you to become more vulnerable to hostile forces. … You may be attacked more often for a while, but the right kind of meditation will only strengthen your … To meditate for a long period of time one needs abundant will power and inner strength. … Real meditation brings peace, strength and joy....
- Question: People are often afraid of practices like meditation which are not prescribed by their
- Sri Chinmoy: People are afraid of practising meditation just because meditation is something new to them … Something more: in the West especially, prayer is given much more importance than meditation. … People feel that if they meditate instead of praying, then they are being disloyal to their religious … This is one of the reasons why some people, especially in the West, are afraid of meditation. … They have not been habituated to meditate whereas they have all along been praying....
- Lost in translation
- At one point the interviewer asked how I help Carl Lewis with his prayer and meditation, but the translator … said, “Now tell us something about how you help Ben Johnson with his prayer and meditation.”
At another point when I said “pray and meditate,” the translator said “play and meditate” in German...
- Donna Halper: Do you tell your students how to meditate, or are they free to choose for themselves
- Sri Chinmoy: Outwardly I give them only very general guidelines, because each individual's way of meditation … But out of God's infinite Bounty I have the capacity to teach their souls inwardly how to meditate. … Each disciple of mine learns his own best way of meditation from his own soul. … Also, I have written considerably on meditation and different inner techniques, so they can read my writings...
- Question: During meditation I find I have feelings of stress in the area of the solar plexus — sometimes … Should I continue meditating?
- Sri Chinmoy: Before you meditate, you should concentrate for a few minutes on the Compassion aspect or … you experience pain, it is good to invoke God’s Protection-power so that you can continue with your meditation … and enjoy the bliss of your meditation. … Then God’s inner Forces will protect you, and you can continue your regular meditation as long as you...
- When I meditate
- Mother Supreme, Father Eternal,
When I meditate On Your Eyes
I feel Your Compassion-joy.
Mother Supreme, Father Eternal, When I meditate On Your Feet I feel my Salvation-joy.
Mother Supreme, Father Eternal, When I meditate On Your Heart I feel our Oneness-Joy.
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- Meditation
In life-emergencyIs not uncommon
For an insincere man.
Meditation
In fulfilled sufficiencyIs not uncommon
For a sincere man.
Meditation
In God-urgency,In man-urgency,
Is not uncommonFor a truth-lover
AndA life-builder.
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- If you want to have A very deep meditation, Then before you meditate, Cast aside all your doubts, Self-doubts, insecurities, Impurities and negativities.
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- What does meditation do? Meditation brings down The God of your life, The God in your life And also The God for your life.
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- My meditation does not
Have to go anywhereTo see anyone
Or to bring anyone to me.My meditation is my magnet-heart.
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- When he meditated on light, Inside light he saw peace. When he meditated on peace, Inside peace he saw The liberation of the world.
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- What do you want?
I want sincerity.
Meditate on the heart of a saint. Meditate on the cry of a hungry child.
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- What do you want?
I want mental breadth.
Meditate on the vastness of the sky. Meditate on the smile of an ocean.
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- What do you want?
I want softness.
Meditate on the softness of your own eyes. Meditate on the down of a bird.
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- What do you want?
I want a loving nature.
Meditate on the eye of an Indian calf. Meditate on a gentle breeze.