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26 Jul Inspiring letters and no few words

Posted at 13:38h in childhood, inspiring, literature, meditation, sri chinmoy, writing by Le Chef Gateaux 3 Comments
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Strangely and very much disconcertingly absent from pen and desk, writing paper blank now curling at the edges these past few months, I've finished and submitted a story nay epic 4000 word behemoth to the soon to be published Episode 17 of Inspiration-Letters at the...

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25 Jul Things my Uncle taught me

Posted at 13:06h in childhood, inspiring, meditation, new zealand, sri chinmoy, writing by Le Chef Gateaux 2 Comments
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A trip to visit a mysterious uncle, whose sagely, intuitive advice proved to be presciently exact (with apologies to Sumangali). While still somewhat new to meditation, and some months before becoming a member of the Sri Chinmoy Centre, I discovered to my great joy my Mother's...

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23 Mar Inspiration-Letters: Destiny Edition

Posted at 23:39h in inspiring, life, literature, meditation, sri chinmoy, writing by Le Chef Gateaux 6 Comments
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Thrift stores, cheap chocolates and masterpieces by Van Gogh and Cezanne—so begins the 16th edition of Inspiration-Letters, magazine style forum for inspired writers of the Sri Chinmoy Centre. A fitting beginning it is too, for all the authors are koan-carrying members of a meditation group...

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16 Mar The 108 Steps of Perfection

Posted at 23:00h in childhood, japan, life, meditation, sri chinmoy by Le Chef Gateaux 3 Comments
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PycZtfns_U Karate, kata, perfect form and perfectionism in Japan At the age of seven, the result of an I don’t know from where interest in Japan, I began learning karate, lessons undertaken at my own insistence, my mother’s weary acquiescence. Perhaps she sensed that it would be...

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25 Jul Mono no aware: Beauty in Japan

Posted at 23:13h in art, beauty, japan, life, sri chinmoy by Le Chef Gateaux 13 Comments
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Meaning literally “a sensitivity to things,” mono no aware is a concept coined by Japanese literary and linguistic scholar Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century to describe the essence of Japanese culture, and it remains the central artistic imperative in Japan to this day. The...

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22 Jun What Matter Age?

Posted at 01:01h in childhood, funny, inspiring, internet, life, literature, meditation, music, poetry, sri chinmoy by Le Chef Gateaux 2 Comments
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There’s a funny saying about things that go around coming around. Usually it’s karma, an eye for an eye and a sow for a reap—the great spiritual law of the universe that dictates bad things for things done badly, good for that done gladly. But inspiration...

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19 Jun Six Childhood Facts

Posted at 23:20h in childhood, inspiring, japan, life, meditation, sri chinmoy by Le Chef Gateaux 11 Comments
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Six facts about me as a child, with due respect to Pavitrata. 1. No fast fried pleasures, please I never spent my pocket money on junk food as a child. Which is not to say that I didn't like junk food, or to suggest merely a lack...

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