The David Lynch Foundation

I was sent this New York Times article on a recent surge in the popularity of meditation and the David Lynch Foundation. It starts at a benefit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December that was M.C.ed by Russell Brand, a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, and delineates Hollywood’s relationship with meditation since the 70s. Mr. Lynch provides my favorite moment in describing the relationship of meditation to creativity:

“Artists like to say, ‘I like a little bit of suffering and anger,’ but if you had a splitting headache, diarrhea and vomiting how much would you enjoy the work and how much work would you get done? Maybe suffering is a romantic idea to get girls, but it’s an enemy to creativity.”

The David Lynch Foundation offers Transcendental Meditation at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others in need. They have offices in L.A., New York and Iowa.