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China –
Three Impressions...

Notes From A Diary - April 2004 –
Experiences and impressions while visiting Sri Chinmoy in New York.

Sri Chinmoy's Piano Improvisation –
In the 1970's, some years before a growing interest in meditation changed the course of my life, I worked for some time in the North West of Australia in an iron-ore mine.

Soul Birds Take Flight –
This article was recently written for an art magazine in New Zealand. The author was inspired by an exhibition of Sri Chinmoy's artwork and was very taken with the beauty and serenity of the gallery.

Tales of Enlightenment –
The other evening several of us in the Auckland centre were swapping 'enlightenment' stories and high points of our meditation experiences – it was quite fascinating! Firmly entrenched in my own non-illumination, I found myself with little to contribute.

Notes From a Diary – August 2004 –
Experiences and impressions while visiting Sri Chinmoy in New York.

The Colouring Book –
In the 60's my three sisters and I were children growing up in a small New Zealand town by the sea.

Some Reflections on Running –
What a wonderful feature of our spiritual path the focus on physical wellbeing – especially running – is!

Meditation: Touching the Infinite –
What is meditation?

The Role of the Guru –
There is, somewhere in the scriptures of India, an image of a very large lake to which, every 5,000 years, a bird flies and carries off a single drop of water in its beak...

Conscious Living –
While many people choosing a vegetarian diet do so primarily for reasons of health or animal ethics, another viewpoint favouring both vegan and vegetarian nutrition is demonstrated in the lifestyle of many practitioners of meditation and supported by a persuasive body of spiritual teachings.

Music and Meditation –
Jogyata Dallas is a musician who also teaches free meditation workshops with Auckland's Sri Chinmoy Centre. A student of the highly regarded meditation master Sri Chinmoy for over 25 years, Jogyata introduces spiritual music, instrumental performances and singing into his classes and encourages people to explore their musical capacities.

Inner Worlds – Outer Worlds –
For anyone associating old age with physical decline, 75 year old Indian luminary Sri Chinmoy is a refreshing dose of inspiration.

Dream Songs –
Spiritual masters communicate with those around them in many secret ways – especially with those that have, or are destined to have, some inner or outer connection such as discipleship. In dreams, visitations, meditations, through sudden inspiration or lucid moments when the soul peeps out, this communication occurs, bypassing language and mind.

A Swimming Pool Meditation –
To be living on this earth when a great master lives, breathes, moves amongst us – what an incalculable blessing. We read about the highest of these, the Avatars, but usually their physical absence numbers long centuries, even longer millennia, though their legacy is eternal.

The Nature of the Supreme –
Spiritual progress is always tested in the proving ground of everyday life and our maturing is always examined there.

All Credit to God –
Spiritual masters who have truly realised God are very rare souls and most human beings will almost certainly never encounter one.

A Mountain Meditation –
From any room on the thirteenth floor of this hotel you can look right across the rambling city of Chiang Mai with it's smoky urban sprawl and golden temple spires, across the maze of roads and alleyways that teem with a million lives, right across the evening haze to the pale blue skyline of wandering mountains framed like a watercolour in your window pane.

Extraordinary Worlds –
Even after a 26-year association with spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy and these many years of first hand exposure to the extraordinary and the miraculous, I am still surprised at how much discipleship has unveiled whole new worlds of knowing and knowledge.

Surprising Rewards –
In a world where from cradle rock to last breath our wellbeing and survival are founded upon physical security – a home, a job, money in the bank – the notion of a life not concerned with these things, and not measuring its success by their abundance, is most definitely not in vogue.

Soul Flight –
In January, 1992, Sri Chinmoy visited the island of Tenerife. A mist of orange dust hung in the sky and I was told it was fine desert sand from the Sahara, blown across the Atlantic Ocean and this archipelago of volcanic islands by the big seasonal trade winds that roam East-West across the African continent.

A Walking Meditation –
In this April in New York on a cold wet day, Sri Chinmoy invited his seven hundred or so visiting disciples to a walk-by meditation and prasad in front of his house.

How to Make the Fastest Progress –
Many years ago Sri Chinmoy offered a very fortunate group of his students a glimpse into an unexplored and unexpected corner of their spiritual life – he offered to disclose their best inner quality, their worst quality and how each could make the fastest spiritual progress.

A Few Reflections –
A few reflections on what Sri Chinmoy's life, teachings and passing have meant to me.

Christmas Trip Notes –
Auckland to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic – two days to get there, two weeks to recover with our spiritual family.