Word: chinmoy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death from the Criminal Courts building in Manhattan. According to The Harvard Crimson, friends described Neumann as "cheerful, outgoing and laid back," although he had been depressed for a few days before leaving for New York. He often traveled to New York to engage in meditation sessions with Sri Chinmoy, of whom Leonard Bernstein had written: "What power is in this man's music. My spirit is very, very deeply impressed." A security guard at Adams House, Robert McLaughlin, who himself became despondent when John Neuman took his life, has told me again and again how giving and caring John...
Neumann often traveled to New York for meditation sessions with Sri Chinmoy, the leader of a loosely organized Indian meditation group, friends said...
Another small campus organization also had a somewhat other worlds aim in its activities. Yet the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Group took a more serious view. The group sponsored four week sessions, usually held at Phillips Brooks House, to teach meditation based on the philosophy of poet Sri Chinmoy...
Different from other forms of meditation such as Transcendental Meditation which focuses on a word. Sri Chinmoy meditation is "heart-centered," Fishman says. He explains that the method of meditation involves a "process" by which one learns to concentrate, usually by fixating on a candle flame. Eventually meditation comes in and then "imagery...
...addition to sponsoring classes, the core group holds a number of poetry readings and seminars, sometimes with Chinmoy himself, who has come to Harvard the last eight years. This year the meditation group sponsored a 24-hour poetry reading in which 3500 of Chinmoy's poems were read aloud. Because the philosopher is also an avid athlete, the group sponsored a 347-mile continuous relay around campus earlier in the year to commemorate Harvard's 347th anniversary...