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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...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Sri Chinmoy Meditation Group will run the marathon relay in order to "salute Harvard's spirit of excellence in its pursuit of verities," said group organizer Adam Fishman '84 yesterday. He added that the 347 laps signify the number of years Harvard has pursued the goal of truth...
...While we have much to learn from the East, Sri Chinmoy also stresses Western values of action, productivity," she says. "He really, really respects Harvard as the pinnacle of Western culture, that's why he's donated so much to the University." Chinmoy has given 300 works to the Divinity School library, as well as music and paintings, and his followers continue to hold regular meditation classes in Phillips Brooks House. Earlier this year several hundred people attended his "Weekend Workshops in Self-Awareness" at the Science Center. Besides the health food store, Chinmoy group members will soon open...