Forwarded from: Ken Chawkin <kchaw...@mum.edu>
The Talks: David Lynch on filmmaking and meditation | Irish Times: Sheryl Crow
on rebooting her life including meditation
DLF.TV (@DLFTV)
10/15/14, 6:50 PM
"Stories should have the suffering, not the people." - David Lynch on
filmmaking and meditation in @the_talks: bit.ly/11oUps7
Thanks to John Burns for this:
Sheryl Crow: ‘Cancer rebooted the way I looked at my life’
Tony Clayton-Lea
Irish Times: Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 01:00
“Oh, look,” she laughs, “I’m older, I have two kids, and so my energies are
going into different areas. I’m just meditating and channelling George Harrison
– he said that, in order to manifest peace without, you have to manifest peace
within. That’s what I’m propagating at this point in my life. I’m trying to
stay awake and conscious and to be an example of that.”
It’s taken her some time to get to this point. “I’ve been meditating for about
17 years, but it has ebbed and flowed and didn’t become something in the
forefront until the past few years.”
She is a person, she reveals, that requires a degree of tranquillity, if not
solitude. There is, therefore, an underlying sense that Sheryl Crow ruminates
too much, too often, and analyses situations into the ground. She doesn’t
necessarily disagree.
Some of you may remember this interview that John added to this email:
Sheryl Crow eloquently makes the case for Transcendental Meditation to be
taught in schools
http://youtu.be/PQpdK4V3P8Y
Heather Hartnett with the David Lynch Foundation interviews Sheryl Crow about
world peace, and individual peace from within. This interview took place at
Radio City Hall in New York.
Below is a two minute transcription:
Sheryl Crow says:
This event to me is one of the most important events to happen at this moment
in our history. As we all know, we are living and navigating through an immense
amount of chaos in the universe.
Our kids are growing up with this chaos and this kind of stress that is being
handed down to them and thrust upon them. They are not equipped to understand
how the central nervous system is braced at all times to try and handle that.
It comes out in very, very destructive ways sometimes with kids. Whether it is
not being interested in school, or whether it is getting into violence or
drugs... or whatever that is... This is the right thing to do, it is the
message that should be sent throughout the world, that all of us on this planet
can talk about peace. Peace begins with all of us. It is not about having a
peaceful relationship with somebody, which means not getting in arguments, or
getting along. Peace is something deeper than that it is tapping into something
that exists in all of us, and that makes us unique, and that helps us to be
pure. But, we get away from that because our brains are so overactive and we
are constantly being dictated by chaos.
I feel this (Transcendental Meditation) is the right thing to do and it should
be in the school systems, but it should also be a part of our daily lives
throughout.
Sheryl Crow supports the David Lynch Foundation, which helps kids to learn
Transcendental Meditation for more clarity and inner calm.
I just posted this comment about it. Please Like it.
Sheryl Crow sang George Harrison's My Sweet Lord with Ben Harper at the David
Lynch Foundation's Change Begins Within concert at Radio City Music Hall in
April 2009. Paul and Ringo also performed in support of the cause. Watch Sheryl
talk about the significance of the concert and the value of Transcendental
Meditation to bring peace to kids in schools. http://youtu.be/PQpdK4V3P8Y Watch
highlights of that magical concert here
http://davidlynchfoundation.org/videos.html#video=qJg5mKuCh7A
