Really? Really, says this SFGate article. Sure, I can see why some would be dubious, but it seems Miley really may have “found” meditation. One thing’s for sure: it’s refreshing for a young female star to say the things she’s saying to her fans, so hey.
And did you know Miley also has an online meditation game? More on that in my newest post at Shambhala SunSpace.
PS: You may also be surprised to know that this is not Cyrus’s first time on the Horse. (Here‘s that.)
That incredible sentence is just one of several uttered in Thursday night’s episode of 30 Rock, in which none other than Liz Lemon herself takes up meditation.
Does she stick with it? Well… maybe.
But that’s almost beside the point. Why? Well… why not read about the whole episode in this writeup I’ve just published on Shambhala SunSpace?
The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan has joined a long list of successful (and notably creative) people who have started up with Transcendental Meditation TM — for example, David Lynch (and musical accomplice Angelo Badalamenti), Paul McCartney, Clint Eastwood, Ellen DeGeneres, Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern (and about 90 percent of his staff, if I understand correctly), Paul McCartney, David Lynch, Laura Dern, Russell Brand, and so on. Some people perceive TM as sort of culty but it seems to be mainstreaming itself quite easily — as the work of the David Lynch Institute, which is bringing TM to kids’ schools, and elsewhere, makes clear. Sullivan also expresses sympathies with Buddhism here.
Thanks, yet again, to Konchog Norbu for the heads-up.
Slight Heavy Metal Update: After posting this, another TM advocate of note came to light: songwriter Mike Hill, whose band Tombs released its album Path of Totality this year. That album is, hands-down, one of the best of 2011 (well, sez me) and like Yob’s Atma LP (also released this year, and perhaps THE best release of the year), is informed by meditation. In this case, the meditation is TM, inspired, as Decibel magazine writes, “by David Lynch’s book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity.” Though it should be said that Hill tells Decibel that his “personal regimen includes not only meditation, but yoga, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and the ingestion of natural psychedelics.”
See also the Horse’s piece about Yob’s Atma: “Metal for Buddhists? Buddhism for metalheads? Who cares? It rocks.”
Nice find via Brad Warner’s Facebook page: James Coburn tries to teach Animal to meditate. Or at least to relax, relax, relax.
If “Dharma-Burgers” are incidents of Buddhism and/or Buddhist ideas colliding with mass culture, then certainly “Buddhify,” featured on the great Lifehacker site today, qualifies:
There’s not anything so new, in and of itself, about there being a meditation app. So why might Buddhify be notable? (more…)
In this video, Harry Belafonte singlehandedly invents “the meditation defense” — without so much as speaking a word:
Ah yes, the “meditation defense.” I see it catching fire by way of bored students and employees everywhere.
(And, really, it’s not just what the anchor says here. Belafonte’s handlers have now publicly stated that he was really was meditating, and not sleeping.)
Check out this single-panel from “Bizarro” cartoonist Dan Piraro:
It comes from his blog (and of course is published in a bazillion papers, etc) along with Piraro’s personal comments about meditation: Sample: “This cartoon was the brainchild of a friend of mine from my previous life back in Texas. It immediately made me chuckle because I hate contest shows and love meditation.”
Visit Bizarro online here. And see also: “Ya Gotta Love this Zen Comic.”
Meditation flash mobs: are they more than just a fad? Sure, none of the participants are moving, but this new — and certainly fad-inspired — activity seems to me far more meaningful than, say, planking, doesn’t it? After all, here are the reasons given by the people behind today’s “Med Mob” in Los Angeles: (more…)
Sleeping Beauty actress Emily Browning has told CBS News Entertainment that she dealt with possible discomfort while filming nude scenes for that film via the practice of meditation. Her words:
“I taught myself to meditate in those scenes. I wasn’t present in those scenes at all, so they didn’t really have as much effect on me.”
That’s cool that she found a way to deal, but does that sound like meditation to you? She may not have been sleeping, but she doesn’t seem to have really been awake, either.
Fantastic to see more press coverage of the value of meditation to those in even the most dire of circumstances:
