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.)

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?

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.”

There’s not anything so new, in and of itself, about there being a meditation app. So why might Buddhify be notable?

I mean, I already use a couple of meditation apps, which serve as the timekeepers for the meditation groups I sit with. (For absolute simplicity I particularly like the free meditation app from InsightLA; you can find it via search in the App Store.) And maybe you use such an app, too.

But Buddhify’s emphasis on teaching you the practice is especially nice. And that name, Buddhify. While it might (unfortunately) evoke the antidepressantpsychotic medication, Abilify, it also echoes killer app Spotify in a clever, can’t-believe-it-hasn’t-been-done kind of way.

“Sounds good, doesn’t it?” this promotional video asks. Well, yes, actually, it does!

And Buddhify is the work of a team of people spearheaded by Rohan Gunatillake of Buddhist Geeks. So that points to the needed balance of tech and meditation acumen.

Wanna give it a try? To do so and/or learn more, visit your app store or click here. And be sure to share your reactions, or other app recommendations here, will you?

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.)

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.”

1. To expose the world to meditation through public display of meditation.
2. To create an environment for people from all walks of life to come together in meditation.
3. To come together as a Global Community to create and expand positive intention out into the world.

Positive intention, indeed!

Click here for details. And leave a comment if you participated or if you want to share what you think of Med Mobs.

See also: Steve Silberman’s Notes from a Meditation Flash Mob, via Shambhala SunSpace.

“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.”

Here’s that story.

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.