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    101 Meditation Techniques
    101 Meditation Techniques
    101 Meditation Techniques
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    101 Meditation Techniques

    By Sri Chinmoy

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    If you are interested in solving your problems, overcoming nervousness, reducing stress, losing weight or seeing and experiencing God face to face, then this compilation from the writings of Sri Chinmoy is for you! This book will help you learn to meditate using methods Sri Chinmoy taught to thousands of students during his lifetime.

    101 Meditation Techniques will show beginners ways to start a meditation practice. And, for the experienced meditator, the techniques in this book offer new inspiration to dive deeper and fly higher.
    For Sri Chinmoy, meditation was both mystical and practical. You can see this reflected in the chapter titles:

    •Developing Concentration
    •Stilling the Mind
    •Breathing Exercises
    •Chanting Mantras
    •Opening the Heart
    •Visualisations
    •Guided Meditations
    •Meditations for Divine Qualities
    •Meditation for Artists and Musicians
    •Meditation Techniques for Runners
    •Meditation for Practical Purposes

    Each of the many techniques in this book stands alone and spans the range from simple breathing exercises to contemplation on the ineffable Supreme Being. This book offers the seeker thirteen ways to concentrate, nine mantras—including the eternal Gayatri Mantra—23 guided meditations and much more.

    For those just beginning to meditate, Sri Chinmoy’s companion book, Meditation: Man-Perfection in God-Satisfaction, is a definitive guide to the inner understanding of meditation and an FAQ for both beginners and experienced meditators.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSri Chinmoy
    Release dateApr 29, 2013
    ISBN9781938599361
    101 Meditation Techniques
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    Sri Chinmoy

    Sri Chinmoy was born in the small village of Shakpura in East Bengal, India (now Bangladesh) in 1931. He was the youngest of seven children in a devout family. In 1944, after the passing of both of his parents, he joined his brothers and sisters at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, a spiritual community near Pondicherry in South India. He prayed and meditated for several hours a day, having many deep inner experiences. It was here that he first began writing poetry to convey his widening mystical vision. He also took an active part in Ashram life and was an athletic champion for many years. Heeding an inner command, Sri Chinmoy came to the United States in 1964 to be of service to spiritual aspirants in the Western world. During the 43 years that he lived in the West, he opened more than 100 meditation Centres worldwide and served as spiritual guide to thousands of students. Sri Chinmoy’s boundless creativity found expression not only in poetry and other forms of literature, but also in musical composition and performance, art and sport. In each sphere he sought to convey the diverse experiences that comprise the spiritual journey: the search for truth and beauty, the struggle to transcend limitations, and the supremely fulfilling communion of the human soul with the Divine. As a self-described student of peace who combined Eastern spirituality and Western dynamism in a remarkable way, Sri Chinmoy garnered international renown. In 1970, at the request of U Thant, third Secretary-General of the United Nations, he began the twice-weekly peace meditations for delegates and staff members at UN headquarters that continue to this day. He offered hundreds of peace concerts, always free of charge, in the U.S. and many other countries. He founded the World Harmony Run, a biennial Olympic-style relay in which runners pass a flaming peace torch from hand to hand as they travel around the globe bearing the message of universal oneness. And he established the Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles humanitarian organization, which serves the less fortunate members of the world family by supplying food, medical and educational equipment and other urgent support. On 11 October 2007, Sri Chinmoy passed behind the curtain of Eternity. His creative, peace-loving and humanitarian endeavours are carried on worldwide by his students, who practise meditation and strive to serve the world in accordance with his timeless teachings.

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    101 Meditation Techniques - Sri Chinmoy

    Introduction

    If you are interested in solving your problems, overcoming nervousness, reducing stress, losing weight or seeing and experiencing God face to face, then this compilation from the writings of Sri Chinmoy is for you!

    Inspired and encouraged by Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007), I have travelled the world for over 30 years, offering free meditation workshops to people from all walks of life. These are the techniques I use. They work.

    Sri Chinmoy taught these methods to thousands of students during his lifetime. His students have, in turn, used the same techniques while offering free meditation workshops to more than a million people in 60 countries.

    For Sri Chinmoy, meditation was both mystical and practical. Skim through the table of contents and you will see this reflected in the chapter titles. Sri Chinmoy stressed: The acceptance of life for the transformation of life… This book will help you do just that.

    Enjoy the journey of meditation and be patient. The rewards are well worth the effort.

    —Sujantra McKeever

    Developing

    Concentration

    Concentration

    Is the midday sun-power.

    As soon as you see this sun,

    Your entire being is flooded with strength.

    Meditation

    Is the moonlit peace.

    As soon as you see this moon,

    You can feel peace within

    And peace without.

    The tip of your thumb. Concentrate on only one object. To concentrate on the tip of your thumb, imagine that your only possession is your thumb. The rest of the body does not belong to you—only the thumb. If you want to concentrate on the tip of your nose, feel that you are the possessor of only your nose; you are not the possessor of your eyes, your ears, your mouth, your limbs. If you begin to think of something else, feel that you are entering into foreign territory. In this way, you will develop your power of concentration.

    You are at liberty to choose any part of your body to concentrate on, but try to use some part which you feel as your very own. And do not concentrate on your arm or your hand or your leg. Take a very small part of your body—the eye or the nose or a fingertip. The smaller the better for concentration.

    The tiniest thing. When you want to acquire the power of concentration, identify yourself with the tiniest thing possible. Then only will you become all-powerful. God is all-powerful not because He is vastness itself, but because He is inside the ant as well as the elephant. God is all-powerful because He can be both elephant and ant. He is the Infinite and He is the finite. Just because He is finite and Infinite at the same time, He is Omnipotent.

    A flame in your heart. Kindly imagine inside your heart a flame. Right now perhaps the flame is tiny and flickering; it is not a powerful flame. But one day it will definitely become most powerful and most illumining. So every day before you pray and meditate, try to imagine inside your heart a flame, a burning flame. And please try to imagine that that flame is illumining your mind. You cannot concentrate according to your satisfaction because the mind is not focused. The mind is constantly thinking of many things. It has become a victim of many uncomely thoughts. The mind does not have proper illumination, so imagine a beautiful flame inside your heart, illumining you. Bring that illumining flame inside your mind. Then you will gradually see a streak of light inside your mind. When your mind starts becoming illumined, it is very, very easy to concentrate for a long time, and also to concentrate more deeply.

    The sound of your heartbeat. If you want to try to hear the sound of your heartbeat, that will be very good. If you fold your hands on top of your heart, you will feel your heartbeat. Then, after you develop the power of concentration, you can meditate on your heartbeat in any part of your body. If your mind is bothering you, you can bring the hammer—the heartbeat—there and strike the mind so that it will be good.

    A spiritual Master’s photograph. When you want to practise concentration, you should choose something that gives you immediate joy. If you have a Master, your Master’s picture will give you immediate joy. If you do not have a Master, select something that is very beautiful, divine and pure, like a flower, for example.

    As pure as a flower. Please look at the entire flower for a few seconds, and while you are concentrating on it, try to feel that you yourself are this flower. At the same time, try to feel that this flower is growing inside your heart—in the inmost recesses of your heart.

    Then try to concentrate gradually on one particular petal of the flower. Feel that this petal which you have selected is the seed-form of your reality-existence. After a few minutes, concentrate on the entire flower again, and feel that it is the Universal Reality. In this way, go back and forth, concentrating first on the petal—the seed-form of your reality—and then on the entire flower—the Universal Reality.

    While you are doing this, please do not allow any thought to enter into your mind. Try to make your mind absolutely calm, quiet and tranquil. Also, kindly keep your eyes half open.

    After some time, please close your eyes and try to see the flower on which you have been concentrating inside your heart. Then in the same way that you concentrated on the physical flower in your hand, kindly concentrate on the flower inside your heart, with your eyes closed.

    A flower signifies purity. Try to feel that your heart has become as pure as the flower.

    Purify the breath. If you would like to develop better concentration, before you start your meditation, repeat the Name of God, ‘Supreme’, about twenty times as fast as possible. First purify your breath by repeating ‘Supreme’. The breath has to be purified; unless and until the breath is purified, the mind will wander and cannot remain one-pointed. If the breath is purified, then the mind will not act like a restless monkey.

    Grow into the breath of God. Concentrate on your inner divinity. Always try to feel that you are safe when you are with God, with divinity. Let God and the divine qualities within you act against your human, undivine qualities. When you repeat the word ‘God’, please try to feel your real love for God. When you are concentrating, feel that you are really growing into God, into the very breath of God. Then your concentration is bound to do something for you.

    Become the witness. First you try to focus your attention on a particular object, then you enter into it, then you go beyond it. Then you come back to yourself and you become the witness, or Sakshapurusha. This is real concentration. This is the secret of meditation. If you know it, you can concentrate most effectively.

    Pierce the object. Take an idea and try to make this idea into a living being. Then place it on the wall at your eye level. If it is too difficult to use an idea, then take some material object and place it on the wall. Keep your eyes open. It is always better to concentrate with open eyes. Look at the object and start concentrating. Now enter into the object. You have to apply all your attention and pierce through the object to the other side. When you have gone to the other side, from there start concentrating. You are there, your body is here. You start concentrating from the other side and from there look at your own body.

    The black dot on the wall: three approaches If you want to achieve extraordinary concentration, please try these exercises.

    Drilling a hole. Stand right in front of a wall, and put a dot on the wall right at the level of your third eye [the spiritual centre between the eyebrows]. It should be a black dot; you should not use any other colour. Then look at the mark. First look at it with your eyes wide open, and then gradually, gradually, close your eyes, but not totally. Try to see the black dot with the least vision of your human eyes. Make your eyes as wide as possible and then immediately try to make them as tiny as possible, so your vision is next to nothing. Then repeat this again.

    After you have succeeded in this, keep your eyes open and try to feel that you are drilling a hole into the wall and entering. Increase your determination to pierce through the wall. In a few minutes you will see that your body is here, but something of you has passed through the wall to the other side. Your power of concentration has taken you to the other side of the wall. Feel that on this side of the wall is the body, and on that side is the soul-power. So from your body you look at your soul,

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