According to Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two remaining members of the Beatles, Transcedental Meditation helped stabilize their band. (Read more about it here.) They will be performing at a concert on Saturday to raise funds for the David Lynch Foundation, an organization dedicated to educating children meditation techniques in school.
This newsstory rocks. It combines my favorite musicians with one of my favorite film directors, and they are both dedicated to a spiritual practice that has become inseparable from my everyday existence.
Though my influence is not as far-reaching as The Beatles or David Lynch, I have become an unofficial PR for meditation among my limited circle of friends. Having started meditation about a year go, I now can’t imagine going through the day without meditating at least once or twice for twenty minutes at a time.
I fully support the efforts of The Beatles and the David Lynch Foundation. The idea of thousands upon thousands of school children closing their eyes and listening to the silence within them gives me tremendous hope. Considering that the next generation will grow up in an even faster and more complicated world than the one we are living in now, meditation at an early age seems less a proposal and more a necessity to simply keep one’s sanity intact.
I can’t imagine a better panacea to the evils of the world than an entire global community focusing on the silence of their own inner peace. The battle is won one young mind at a time, one Beatles concert at a time.
Join the meditation revolution. Start learning meditation today.
Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
* Yumi * Spot on
As an old hippie (or young one) I grew up with the Beatles. I began meditation and went to India at the same time – in the late '60's – Now Deb and I teach meditation internationally (very humbling) We wrote a book with contributions from Paul & Linda McCartney- Yoko Ono- HH the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Richard Gere wrote the foreword, Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead) and others
We have a meditation book coming out in November 2009 with contributions from amazing luminous people such as HH the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman (Uma's dad), Marianne Williamson, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jane Fonda, Michael Beckwith, Dean Ornish, Ellen Burstyn, Patch Adams and others- Meditation is the Way To Go– Ed
Yumi,
Your comment on "The idea of thousands upon thousands of school children closing their eyes and listening to the silence within them gives me tremendous hope. " I couldn't agree more. In my own neighborhood, I see kids who seem to be constantly running at full throttle, but they're going nowhere just looking for something, anything to occupy their minds. My hope is that something like Mr. Lynch's program become more widespread, for the children's sake.
Going right now….
xoxoxo
L
Great idea ,it was the Beatles who turned me on to mediation a 100 years ago.At the time we pretty much followed everything they did, from that radical time of wild colors and growing your hair long ,to reading between the lines of Abby road and the white Album trying to uncover hidden messages (way too much time on our hands). They showed me the way to another world within the oh so stagnant one I had. They will live on in words and music forever within my soul. Here's to meditation and to the world learning that going inward is the only way to true riches.
Love and Light
Michael
Spot on Michael!
I remember turning on the radio and hearing- "turn of your mind and float downstream – is it not dying" as I was tripping my brains off 40 odd years ago
Cheers, Ed
Dear Yumi: I have to agree with Ed and Michael. It was the Beatles who turned my mind and heart to the East as a young boy. The late George Harrison especially was my teacher. The image of school children learning to surrender to the Silence and the peace it brings gives great hope. Love, Greg
Beautiful, Yumi!
My feeling is that God sings and plays through the Beatles, at least in many songs.
Their initial phase helped me to go from tamas(inertia) to r
dear yumi,
Beautiful post.
thanks.
love and peace.
Dear Yumi,
I am going to take your post in a very practical way. In a fundamental and old culture as we live in, how is it possible to convince the school principles/ ministry of education to introduce meditation? Even when the authorities themselves are benefiting from meditation (to remind, at the edge of the Soviet Union's collapse, in 1989 – 1990, thirty five thousand Armenians were taught TM and TM-siddhi), they normally oppose. Do you have any tips? Immagine, our children are not only living in economic crisis, but are also going to inherit an unresolved conflict. We want our schoolchildren to benefit from David Linch's Foundation and learn meditation. Heeeeeeeeeeelp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Positive,
Yumi = You and Me & You are Me.
Happy Our (Intent) Day
Beautiful post and very positive/sincere comments from everytone .
Rouzanna I liked you geniune concern for kids and how such a thing could be practically imagined to happen ? Geniune prayers to almighty which are not selfish and directed towards the good of someone else like the kids of your country never go unheard ….so all I can say is pray when you cant really do anything else …pray that the kids of your town/country learn to meditate. what say ?
Yumi,
The David Lynch Foundation actually contributed an article Elevated Existence Magazine's March 2009 issue called "Meditation in the Classroom." It's about the work they are doing and how they are helping children in amazing ways through teaching Transcendental Meditation. I wish I learned it in grade school! They are a great foundation, and we totally support them.
Tammy Mastroberte
Founder, Publisher, Editorial Director
Elevated Existence Magazine
http://www.elevatedexistence.com
Ed, please keep us updated on your book. It sounds amazing. Mallika will probably love to do a podcast interview with you guys when the book comes out!
Hmmm… what a tough question!
I wish I was more qualified to answer this question. I would just say meditation should be simply presented as a mental exercise in clearing your mind, and emphasize both the mental and physical health benefits of practicing meditation. Even if you're an atheist or an agnostic, you can still believe in the power of meditation. Perhaps it can be presented more as "quiet contemplation time" rather than "meditation"–which may bring a more spiritual connotation to some people. I think another great way to spread meditation is to have it more in other public ways, such as starting informal meditation groups and offering meditation classes for adults in community centers. Once adults warm up to meditation in large ways, it will make sense that adults will want to pass it onto their children more.
Hi Tammy,
I am so glad to hear that! The David Lynch Foundation deserves a lot of support from everybody, and I am glad Elevated Existence has helped give awareness to their great cause. I, too, wish I learned meditation when I was younger. Definitely better late than never!
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