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The Sri Chinmoy Centre of Christchurch offers a variety of sports and cultural activities, learn to meditate programmes and concerts. It offers a uniquely modern and holistic approach to self-development, introducing meditation and a dynamic lifestyle into our contemporary world.
Concert: Music Mantra Meditation
A free winter concert and opportunity to relax, meditate and immerse yourself in the meditative compositions of Sri Chinmoy. Performed by members of the Sri Chinmoy Centres on a variety of instruments from around the world. Sublime music with a unique blend of Eastern and Western traditions...a must for all lovers of vocal music.
Meditation Workshops
Winter Series 2010
Meditation is a life-skill that will open you to the greater possibilities of life. Any aspect of your day-to-day activities will be enhanced by regular meditation - even if it is just for a few minutes each day. We are very happy to offer a winter series of meditation workshops that will introduce you to a range of techniques and skills such as clearing the mind, simple breathing exercises, the value of mantra and music, creative visualisation and step-by-step guidelines to establishing your meditation practise at home.
Meditation Workshops in 2010
MAY WORKSHOP IN AUCKAND AND CHRISTCHURCH
Presented by international guest speaker Devashishu Torpy. Devashishu has studied and practised meditation under the direct guidance of his teacher Sri Chinmoy for 31 years. Based in London, Devashishu has taught meditation internationally for over 20 years.
The workshop will introduce you to a range of techniques and skills such as clearing the mind, breathing, mantras, visualisation and step-by-step guidelines to establishing your own home practise of meditation.
Please visit Meditation Auckland for details of Devashishu's Auckland workshop.
38. A column of white light
This week Sri Chinmoy offers a simple but very effective meditation exercise – a visualisation on purifying white light.
Sri Chinmoy's words:
37. Meditation: the river of consciousness
Very often, especially when we are new to meditation, we feel that we are responsible for the experience that we have in meditation – we feel that it is up to us to make something happen! Sometimes we push and pull and become discouraged, but as we progress in our spiritual journey, we begin to realise that meditation is something that occurs quite naturally and spontaneously from within – like a river that flows from a spring in the ground. We cannot necessarily see the source of the river, but we can see or, as it is with meditation, feel the results.
36. Meditating on vastness
In the mind, we often find limitation and clutter - the mind needs silence for its purification and perfection. In the spiritual heart, we find expansion, vastness and clarity. Sri Chinmoy makes this comparison: "In the mind there is a constant battle raging. The mind is like Times Square on New Year's Eve; the heart is like a lonely cave in the Himalayas."
In this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy urges the meditation practitioner to take inspiration from the natural elements as an aid to experiencing the vastness of heart meditation.
35. Meditation: going to the bottom of the sea
The act of meditation is in many ways an immersion into the deeper part of our being – an unlimited consciousness that lies beyond the often superficial human existence. True, the human reality cannot be ignored because it needs perfection and fulfilment. But if we are only ever aware of our limited human nature, we never get to expand into the deeper reality, the heart and soul. In meditation we try to dive deep into the sea of tranquility that we all possess inside us – that “sea of peace and joy and light” that Sri Chinmoy alludes to in his poem, The Golden Flute.
In this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy offers a simple visualisation to help us discover and swim in the inner sea:
Meditation with Kishore
FEBRUARY WEEKEND WORKSHOP IN CHRISTCHURCH
Presented by guest speaker Kishore Cunningham. Kishore has studied and practised meditation under the guidance of his teacher Sri Chinmoy for 35 years. Based in Melbourne where he is director of the Melbourne Sri Chinmoy Centre, Kishore has taught meditation internationally for over 30 years.
The weekend workshop will introduce you to a range of techniques and skills such as clearing the mind, breathing, mantras, visualisation and step-by-step guidelines to establishing your own home practise of meditation.
TOPICS & TECHNIQUES WILL INCLUDE:
34. Creative visualisation: a flower inside your heart
For this weeks meditation exercise, we move to the realm of creative visualisations – using our imagination to create a reality that inspires the mind and brings forward the inner propensities. This is not the act of day-dreaming or creating false realities, but rather the act of bringing forward realities that already exist within us.
Sri Chinmoy's words: