David Lynch: Meditation, Creativity, Peace Q&A
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- 4/2/2013---Filmmaker David Lynch, comedian Russell Brand, and David Lynch Foundation Executive Director Bob Roth answer questions about Transcendental Meditation following a screening of the documentary Meditation, Creativity, Peace.
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TM teachers work from a strict SCRIPT created by Maharishi. There's no reason why a RUclips video couldn't be made with basic instruction, followed by answers to questions based on that pre-existing script, from which they're not allowed to deviate anyway (your 'mantra' is just based on your age BTW). The only 'personal' part is the baloney Hindu-esque ritual they get you to do at the start, but that's totally unnecessary anyway. The meditation itself is fine, but the institution is a CULT.
True meditation masters, especially the masters in India like Kirpal Singh, do not charge for meditation. It is said that anyone charging is a farce.
Be real
I need more than meditation to put up with Russell Brand
A cult tells you how to live and what to think. TM is a practice which lets you find the truth out for yourself. A one-time only fee into a non-profit organization in return for a lifetime of self-unfoldment. Sounds like a deal.
Don't forget to sign up for the "next level" and buy the ghandarva veda music, and the ayurvedic products and retreats. While you are at it have your Jyotish done and remember, you need to make sure your house is stapatya veda too. Hundreds of thousands of dollars later, you will wonder: was this a cult? Even if it is a harmless, mind expanding garden path, does it have to be so expensive?
JanCarol11 TM is neither a cult nor a garden path. I hear you as regards the money, but expensive compared to what... a foreign holiday or this year's Apple gadget? None of the extras you mention is compulsory. The experience of transcendence comes out of the basic TM technique and it gets better the longer you do it. The Lynch Foundation offers free meditation to vulnerable and highly stressed people, pretty much anyone who wants it can learn.
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Yes, but you would be SO MUCH *****better***** doing your yogic flying in a stapatya vedic house filled with gandarva veda music, with your Jyotish remedied by chanting yagyas and wearing expensive stones and - hey wait: don't cults dictate every aspect of your life? No, none are required, but you're not nearly as "in" if you don't.
The David Lynch Foundation teaches people to meditate for free. Being 'in', tragically, is not part of the package.
You've never lived in Fairfield, then.
David Lynch is such a very fine man and what he's doing with his foundation is absolutely remarkable. He's also one of the most creative directors around.
Should be free,just like Tee Ball...parents volunteering after work.....seems cult like money driven.
I feel like transcendental meditation is, for David Lynch, his surreality seeping into real life. I want to dislike it and call it drinking the snake oil, but I can't help being captivated by the stuff Lynch says just as if I'm watching one of his movies.
I can't believe this is a thing that happened.
David Lynch should not be in the same room as Russel Brand.
Marco Dellorusso oh, I do not agree. RB is a tad irritating at times, but overall not so bad
Completely disagree. Russell Brand is a beautiful, passionate, creative and spiritual soul.
As is David Lynch.
Of course they belong in the same room.
Furthermore, they are both human beings. No one person is better than another. Any person is worthy of being in the presence of any other human being. We are all made from the same thing, we are all in this together.
Russell's like a little brat not getting enough attention
i just don't get what is going on here o_o the point is to provide TM to schools prisons ets.and it really needs money,and just the pricipe of assess of finances is working.but the sence is to PROVIDE this in real daily life.what a rediculous arguments are that this is so wrong soo bad and this foundation owns the method or TM. no one of these 16 years old schoolboys wont search the practice of meditation on youtube in it's private time(i mean practically noone)even it'll be for free.and the guys from foundation needs a money and time and energy and stuff for doing this.and they are not some kind of fairys or smth,if you think so)i don't know,it's too simple to understand this
where can you see the documentary
Here you go: ruclips.net/video/BH4qD5Fzyjk/видео.html
10 minutes in the morning, 10 minutes in the afternoon.. what about the rest of the day, when you‘re going to work, sitting in meetings and walking the dog.. isn‘t it a bit like going to the fitness centre to ‚get into‘ exercise.. why not exercise throughout the day at every opportunity.. climb the stairs instead of pressing the lift button.. be more vigorous with the vacuum cleaning.. at mealtime eat half of what would usually make you full.. it doesn’t need to be either / or.. surely what we‘re after is a mashup - i said mashup not mashed potatoes.. but maybe that comes later (the mashup i mean).. the hummmmm of internal operating that dependably evolves/satisfies our ever outward seeking network of emotional roots longing for that next sip from the ‚water of life‘.
David makes so much sense. I see parallel between his ideas and Sufism, as I have seen sufism all my life.
Everything is still about promoting their own product in the end(((((
Great interview. Lynch is one of the few people who can focus on spiritual progress in a simple, innocent and sincere way. I have looked at the David Lynch Foundation Website and the short videos are the proof of the remarkable benefits of the practice of TM. I have found from experience that techniques of meditation are definitely not the same! TM is simple to do, but the benefits are immediate and extraordinary.
And then what?
U talk about the benefits but never David Lynch how to do it? Never
David Lynch and the Stressbusters
Which of the 3 doesn't belong there?
I say russell
I want to know why David Lynch smokes? 30+ years of meditation and still chain smoking,surely if meditation increases sensitivity to harming one's body..why?
Thank you* DAVid*:::. .*. 🌠✨🌟
and people who hear voices and other mental illness? are they able to do this?
Definitely, but the nice thing about TM is that it fits in with almost any possible mainstream drug rehab program with little or no modification to that program: just set aside 20 minutes twice a day for TM practice, once when you wake up, and once before dinner, and that's it. Any issue that is stress-related will tend to improve when you practice TM and a real problem with many drug rehab programs is that they can be stressful themselves, and TM helps counter THAT along with the usual stuff.
Russell Brand has so cool boots👢 I need like this one!)))
Haha! Look at Russell's face when Bob Roth talks about the 'good intentions' of The White House and then makes a complete contradiction by saying 'what's the alternative more of what The White House is doing?' Russell responds to it brilliantly!
That comment is so provocative I have to quote D.Lynch:
"Our Foundation was established to ensure that any child in America who wants to learn and practice the Transcendental Meditation program can do so. The TM program is the most thoroughly researched and widely practiced program in the world for developing the full creative potential of the brain and mind, improving health, reducing stress, and improving academic outcomes." (cont'd)
this all sounds extremely preachy and david does an awful job at hiding his agenda, i cringed when i heard some of the answers that completely ignored the asker's point and worked just as a way to promote TM. and that last answer? c'mon...
love lynch's movies tho
I guess Lynch likes doughnuts
After that interview I guess he‘s low in blood sugars 🍩🥕☕️
begins at 4:14
Russell's a lame
To folks complaining of the financial investment and questioning the folks who charge I would the apple is free. It's a gift, available for the picker. But if you want someone to pick the apple for you, then understand they don't owe you a picking of an apple.
I really liked Russel Brand but I am very disapointed irony doesn't match with unite consciousness... He's disturbing the goodenergyflows of the stage... Is he too egotistic or did he ever practiced meditation?
if you really like him once then you should know that yes he did, and that he is not egotistic, at all mate, try find a moment and watch/listen to R B and you will understand:)
That‘s life babe.. and i‘d say at times RB is sehr egotistical.. that‘s the problem with meditation it has a habit of sucking life into itself.. resist and allow it instead to flow both ways and equip us with the inner resources to negotiate life ‚just as it is‘ 🙌🏽
David lynch and his karate hand while speaking :D
Russell Brand is a woman
enlightened people aren't judgemental, so... your argument is invalid
so great!
You too. Wish you all the best *
It's not crazy expensive, really. If I quit smoking today, I would save the entire course fee in less than a year.
IMO, the interviewer is quite irritating heh.
Look. To begin with, it doesn't cost thousands of bucks. If you're poor, it will be much cheaper than if you are rich.
I do not know anything about Ellen and Oprah's motives, and I'm not that interested (although I doubt that they are saints). Buy you could go check out davidlynchfoundation dawt org to check out what he has done so far to further the good cause. Quite a bit I'd say.
Btw, are you already practicing some form of meditation?
What? Suddenly you don't think that teaching TM brings about any real change in the world? What was the rap about 800K meditators then?
You're starting to sound bitter and jealous. If you hate your job, just quit it and figure out what you would rather do. Maybe not in that order :p Why are you opposed to the idea that it would be possible to make a living through your life's passion? The sacrifice there, of course, is dedicating your life to teaching others. Duh.
Do you really think the people who actually have power in this world want to see global change and world peace? There will ALWAYS be an obstacle as long as we believe what we're told.
Meditation in general is a powerful way of transforming individuals. TM is just one branch in a huge tree. It's totally free to meditate and there's not much to learn to start with. You don't need a guru or a clinic, you only need to do it.
Obstacles?
Just create your own mantra. Watch Inception and realise why you would keep a sectret
What other techniques and skills do you reckon should be taught to everyone for free? How do you draw the line? And how are the teachers supposed to make a living?As we still live in a world were you exchange money for goods and services, it only makes sense that it costs money.
So I'm sure it "should be a fundamental right", but maybe everyone should have access to food, shelter, security and clean water first?
And you know - just meditate. It's completely up to you.
I would love to see Russell Brand in a David Lynch film. They're two of my favourite people on earth and seeing them together warms my soul.
Russell Brand cracks me up.
We provide scholarships for students to learn the technique and to receive the complete follow-up program of instruction throughout their student years to ensure they receive the maximum benefits. (...) Research and experience document the profound benefits to society as a whole when our children dive within. Individual peace is the unit of world peace. (cont'd)
Brain. I don't need a brain to think
By offering Consciousness-Based education to the coming generation, we can promote a strong foundation for a healthy, harmonious, and peaceful world. For this, the Foundation also supports the establishment of Universities of World Peace that will train the coming generation in a new profession: that of professional peacemaker. "
great Q&A session but i have one true thing to say.. right when he talked about masturbation, i was doing exactly that, i laughed so much, and actually paid more attention to the video, of course i stopped too.
There’s no need to be spiritualist or believe in any doctrine , spiritual figure or religion, doing TM , for your information TM IS NOT A SECT, you are free to do it as you feel more comfortable, Mahesh yogi is dead now and the actual guru in rishikesh north of India , dosnt force anyone to renew their Mantra if they are sure about it, the price of renewing mantra in case of forgetting, is just 2000 rupiahs that is nothing comparing to your accelerated American shopping! This 2000 rupiahs is for maintenance of a very poor and simple ashram( the one and only from Maharashi Mahesh yogi). If that was a sect, Maharashi never wouldn’t took out the Beatles band of Ashram! So if there are any body here who just doesn’t like this technique and prefers Ganesh, Krishna, shakti, Saraswati , Hanooman and thousands other gods and goddesses , so may not giving any opinions about a simple technique that doesn’t obligates anyone to do Yoga, fist or devoting to false divinity ! Just shshshsh and listen.
Per the comment below. I agree entirely. How much do you spend on bad habits? What if you put all that money into something that could enhance your life, make life more enjoyable? You'd spend money to buy a new car but complain when having to spend money on a technique which brings proven results. Check out the neuroscience of TM. It's also bizarre that spirituality has become so divorced from reality so as to be really an escape rather than a way of living a better life so the mere mention that TM has an impact on the material world is taken as a heresy of sorts. Face it. We live in a material world. We have a body. This notion that spirit is somehow divorced from the material is very old fashioned and just plain wrong. Disciplines such as quantum physics are disproving the mind-body schism. I suspect that people who talk about TM being too materialistic are not very "spiritual" at all for all their palaver and take to spirituality as a way of staying asleep rather than waking up.
and for God's sake,stop treating Lynch with your coments like stop this bullshit and make another film i love you.he make enough,you'll better learn to enjoy what he had done than to moan)maybe he just don't want to make films anymore,i hope he's not,but who knows.or he's just owes you yet a couple of films?)
So many negative comments. Appreciate diversity in all things. These three are happy in themselves, so that speaks for itself. Why do ppl put conditions on everything? No wonder they are miserable.
plus there's nothing in common with those two. one is an effective meditation technique, while the other is a fabricated religion business.
34:00 Lunatic conspiracy theorist - there's always one
You mean someone who understands that people with power will do anything to keep and or gain more power.
This way of viewing the world will spawn a new adogmatic religion/spirituality that is grounded in science and experience. If we as a species survive the next 2000 years, all current organized forms of religion founded in stone-age times will have dissolved and a new kind of global unity and social cohesion will have taken its place.
The question is, will we survive for so long without our society and accumulated knowledge breaking down?
I feel like transcendental meditation is, for David Lynch, his surreality seeping into real life. I want to dislike it and call it drinking the snake oil, but I can't help being captivated by the stuff Lynch says just as if I'm watching one of his movies.
He quit at one point, and for some reason he decided to restart and now embraces his habit. Shrug.
yeah, sorry, i didn't know at the time. "sacrifice" in this context doesn't equal suffering. why should it?
That said, I get your point. But scientology is still a bad analogy.
(Try mindfulness meditation.)
Sorry, actually it is 20 US Dollars in India...sorry for typing it wrong in my previous message. It works even for people with serious Psychiatric disorders like Manic Depressive Psychosis.
OK, I get where you're coming from. Funny - I am (mostly) an artist an I'm really used to being broke, ad nauseam, yet I don't see a course fee of a few hundred as a huge obstacle - more it poses the question if I really need to do this? Or that? I know I can if I need to, one way or the other. More often than not, I cannot anticipate "the way", things just tend to happen when you're aligned towards them.
So if you were able to land a 60K job, it shouldn't be a huge problem for you either.
He said he smoked because he loves fire and that it's the "artist's life". He said he recently quit and he's depressed about it. It was in some recent q and a.
Put in the heart of st louis.
I've always wanted to save the world.
Paper & Pebbles
visualfart
Money
Really
I don't expect for this to make since.
You said it. The relationship is metaphorical, not scientific. It's an attempt to scientifically validate the benefits of meditation. Same goes for the quantum mysticists who try to link consciousness to quantum mechanics. Pseudoscience
Fierce chemical addictions, such as smoking can be quite difficult to quit without chemical intervention or long term abstinence.
the concept of unified field is analogous with the reports of unification felt with all things when in deep meditation. there's a relation, even if it's not strictly scientific and maybe a little metaphorical.
the terms they use feel more intuitive to those already more closely aligned to their ideas, which aids skepticism.
personally, i would have been heavily skeptical as an engineer had i not been convinced by a psychonaut friend to try the peruvian tea ayahuasca.
There are countries with lots of meditation, for example India, and there are still lots of problems there, even with something as basic as children suffering. I love meditation, but it is not a replacement for reason, and the idea that Western society would be "fixed" if enough people meditated seems like a very immature idea to me. Yes, I think more people should meditate, but no, I don't think it's the solution to the world's problems. The best outcome I can imagine from more people meditating is that those fighting for equality, fairness and peace would become better at that fight.
@@beejumittahb8527 Interesting. There must be countries where meditation is practised more than others, though. Do you have any stats?
It is interesting how not transcendent these men appear - materialistic, and not questioning the system that creates the stress. It makes me distrustful that a cost is involved. That's not very transcendent. It is also not very transcendent to be sexist. David says: "He [the artist] is getting these girls. They bring food to him, maybe spend the night." David is concerned for the [male] artist, but not for the "girls", as he calls them. He doesn't even see how sexist this description is. This is not transcendent.
I find it sad that you think he is sexist because of that. Wasn't sexist. It was an example (from France, I believe he said). It could be flipped around and be a female artist having food brought to her by men... Doesn't make anyone sexist, except for maybe those french dudes he was talkin' about...
I am sad Piggy that you cannot recognize sexism when it's so clearly there. It is both what David says and how he talks about it. Do you find it problematic that there is no woman on the panel, making it the ratio 3 to 0 in favour of men? This is called invisibilisation of women. These men are talking about transcending, being or going beyond the range or limits of (a field of activity or conceptual sphere), yet they can't transcend their sexism.
I find no problem with the fact that there is no woman on the panel. Just the same as I would find no problem with a panel with 3 women and no men. What would that be called the "invisibilisation of men?" No. It's just 3 people. Just like here. By your logic, you could say this is racist because there are no black people up there. Whatever though, I'm pretty sure David was just referencing something. Maybe you're getting some kind of negative vibe from Russel Brand talking openly about masturebation.
Yes, I would call it racist. And you have to look at sexism historically. Three women and no men would not equal invisibilisation of men, as they have been very visible historically. And no, I have no problem whatsoever with Russell talking about masturbation. I have a problem with Russell being sexist in other contexts than this particular panel.
Agnieszka Niemira Get a grip. It's idiots like you that bring down women, grow a brain
And i'm guessing you have hundreds of peer reviewed scientific journals that prove that this is the case?
Great Video by three geniuses in their own ways. TM costs 50 US Dollars in India, don't think they are after money. You don't have an organized church in India , the money to maintain the organization i guess must come from teaching. TM is an ancient form of meditation that had been lost for thousands of years from the general public and now has spread and benefited MILLIONS across the world only because of Western Organization and money.
if its meditation you want check out sister jyanti of the brahma kumaris
what about the people who don't afford this training?
look up: David wants to fly. Just interesting. I like several perspectives on everything, but this will be VERY interesting.
Flying is a secret. It supposedly stimulates bubbling creativity. You have to pay another $5000 to get that one.
Russell Brand is being quite rude to David.
Exactly, I suppose it builds a routine, a mantra of sorts. Very good indeed.
Cool! Sounds like you're very aware you actually got what you needed. I'm glad.
and the 450 euros gets you what?
Devid just ease my mind about the idea of suffering
My words
I think its worth all the $
At approx. 24 minutes, when talking about Vipassana meditation, Lynch basically said that TM is the complete opposite of "seeing things as is", as per Nirvana and Buddhism, which qualifies the TM technique into the big "sect" family since it is attached to no 'real' spiritual movement. When described, TM sounds more like some king of drug that makes everything blurry (might be positive on some aspects, but can't lead to being spiritually open) than actual meditation. And I seriously believe that this can be dangerous on so many levels.
Also, spirituality is free, you can't buy it. The only thing you can buy is the illusion of.
Becky del Monte maybe you need both 😀
No he's not. They know eachother pretty well.
Thanks for the info. Had no idea that there was a mantra register.
hacks? david lynch? :D
Quite the Trinity....
21;06 Eraserhead ))
this is really interesting.
32:12
Nice
PS. i only got around to watching the rest of the video... Bob Roth answers your question about the money thing very well, i think, at around 17 minute mark. or at least now i get why it works like this. :)
Brand? Brand???
In a sense, TM created David Lynch (he genuinely seems to be creatively enriched by the practice) but it has also destroyed him - he's one of the greatest filmmakers to walk the planet, he's still alive and 'full of beans', but instead of blessing the world with more of his art (his music experiments don't count) he's pouring his energy into the spreading the cult. One more film, please! (Cruise showed you can be an insane cult victim and still make plenty of movies!)