Strength in Stillness with Bob Roth | Rich Roll Podcast

Bob Roth is one of the most experienced and sought after meditation teachers in America with student roster includes such recognizable names as Oprah, Russell Brand, Jim Carrey, Jerry Seinfeld, Martin Scorcese, Ray Dalio, Howard Stern, Tom Hanks, Hugh Jackman, and countless other notables.
He is also the executive director of the David Lynch Foundation, where he has helped bring transcendental meditation (TM) to more than 500,000 inner-city youth in underserved schools in 35 countries, as well as to veterans and their families suffering from PTSD, and women and girls who are survivors of domestic violence.
Bob's newest book is "Strength in Stillness" - which breaks down the science behind TM and provides a simple, straightforward and accessible roadmap for reducing stress, accessing inner power and building resilience.
Today we talk all about all of it.
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[@dianasmith248]

TM is the best and most helpful meditation I’ve done. I’ve been meditating or trying to meditate for years and the results I’ve felt in just one week of practicing TM is pretty unbelievable. I highly recommend this meditation to anyone looking to have more focus and clarity of thought, more energy spread throughout your day. Thank you Bob Roth ✨🙏

[@gary1251]

As a 76 y o PTSD vet, an active, very grateful OA / 12 step member , a car-free ( 4 7 yrs. !) bicyclist here in Hilo, I re-began my TM practice 1 month ago. I was initiated in SF in the mid seventies and have practicing on and off since. Now I vow, as I bow to Buddha, never to miss. Like Bob, I may, hopefully not, miss but it might happen. I am going to send a message to Terry Gross of Fresh Air fame at NPR to have both Bob Roth and David Lynchon her show. And I requesting from the Nat'l Library for the Blind, to acquire'Strength in Stillness' - Bob Roth - and 'Catching the Big Fish' (David Lynch) and Eckhart Tolle's 'Stillness Speaks'. WON*DER*FUL interview ! {Happy Thanksgiving I am fasting!}

[@araceli7200]

Great interview. It's great to listen to a more in-depth discussion about TM with Bob Roth. Rich, thank you for asking great questions. They were very thoughtful and helped us all have a better understanding about TM and some of the science and background behind it.

[@mason8241]

Love this. Thank you for everything Rich!

[@palecompass3598]

Beautiful! Thanks for what you do, Rich.

[@jemygdio]

I was about to say that! We are one! Thanks Rich!

[@margaretshields5313]

Thank you Rich, this is such a cool and interesting conversation. Much appreciated.💚

[@zeyism3981]

Great IV, rich conversation. Thank you both of you ❤

[@robertlloydsite]

Worth the time A wonderful inspiring talk.

[@staceydeerfield4042]

Focused meditation makes me tired. Settling down into the deep quiet of my mind is just restful and rejuvenating. So easy. Give yourself this start and end to the day. I bet you’ll be sneaking opportunities for stillness during your day. ❤

[@slabdog397]

9:50 ... Wow Thank you i needed to hear that

[@dawnmakinson6086]

Sooooo illuminating!

[@cindyglasscock]

This is so good !!!!! Extremely helpful. I've gotta try TM

[@Burzurk1987]

Did you try TM after all?

[@jillt.3195]

Wow. This was fascinating! Can’t wait to read his book.

[@dinomiles7999]

Jill K. Tinsley did u read the book ?

[@riyazuddin6743]

Book name please... I want to read

[@ShariLikesFruit]

Wonderful interview. 💜

[@isabelparejaterapiayastrologia]

Thank you!,

[@esbueno_cl3969]

Beautiful work teaching meditation to children!! BTW, ACE = Adverse Childhood Experiences

[@maremacd]

I took the TM classes a few years ago when I was going through a very anxious time in my life. It helped, but I dropped it when I felt I was past the acute period. I recently listened to Bob’s book and felt really inspired by his story and message. I have often wanted to give it another serious go, and I meditated tonight as I waited out a rainstorm in my car. Then I see this in my feed. Cool. I have been struggling with focusing on the positives in my life but continue to be so distracted and overwhelmed by the negatives. Then I feel guilty about not feeling more grateful. I’m hoping TM can help. An unrelated question: Rich, perhaps you can get Michael Pollan on your show. His new book on the benefits of psychodelics therapy sounds fascinating.

[@maremacd]

Just wanted to add that, while it’s true that TM practice is nonreligous, on the first day of instruction the teacher, while speaking Sanskrit, performs a ceremony at a sort of makeshift altar, and the student is expected to participate. It made me extremely uncomfortable and almost sent me running from the room. I talked to other TM students about this ceremony and some felt it was no big deal, while others felt as I did. I wish they would omit this part of the instruction. Students are asked not to share too much of what they are taught (a little sketchy), so I may have committed an infraction by relating this. If and when you learn TM I would love to hear what you thought of the ceremony.

[@LawsonEnglish]

That part of instruction is vital from teh old monk's perspective. He founded his organization to honor his guru and that is what the ceremony does. As well, tradition holds that performing the ceremony puts the teacher in the proper frame mind for teaching and witnessing the ceremony puts the student in the proper frame fo mind for learning. There's even published research that shows that listening to such rituals has a meditation-like effect on the brain. so... no way will that ceremony EVER be done away with.

[@maremacd]

Lawson English Yes, that is what I was told after I mentioned my objections. Perhaps if the instructor had been more explicit about what the ceremony entailed I might have been more receptive. As a neophyte where Eastern spiritual practice is concerned (and as a recovering Catholic), the ceremony seemed crazy spooky, and I began to worry about what we were invoking. The altar offerings and burning of incense in particular seemed religious to me. Also, the room was a tiny professional office and filled rapidly with smoke, which caused me to cough and my eyes to water. This may have helped my teacher prepare for the instruction but it didn’t help me! I would like to revisit the whole thing with a new instructor, but I was told that, while I am entitled to a lifetime of “tune ups,” I would have to get them from my original teacher. She seemed like a kind and genuine person, but we were not a good match. I would love to try again with someone like Bob.

[@LawsonEnglish]

Well, the tradition comes from a time when everything was religious ("the gods did it" was the explanation for every aspect of reality), but were you asked to believe in the gods? It might be news to you, but your *teacher* isnt' asked to believe in the gods, either. The TM teacher is required to do the ceremony as part of his/her contract with the TM organization, but isn't asked to believe in the ceremony any more than you are asked to believe in TM. The most famous TM teacher in the world is this guy: worldschildrensprize.org/gabrielmontoya Father Gabriel Antonio Mejia Montoya is a Roman Catholic Priest who is a trained TM teacher and ensures that all 4,000 children in his care learn TM. All the older kids learn the TM "levitation" technique as well. The Roman Catholic Church thinks this is a very strange thing for a priest to be doing, but after reviewing the before and after picture, and realizing that every child they were speaking to was a former child-prositite/addict, or a former gang-member or a former child-rebel, they simply threw up their hands. Father Mejia has a 75% drug rehabilitation success rate (the best in the world, for which he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize). See the first part of this video and then the "after TM:" part starting at 45::30. Compare the state of the children around 9::30, 15::30 and especially at 17::30 with the kids starting after then learn TM. Look at the face of the child at 50::00: www.cutv.ws/play/8239/Saving-the-Disposable-Ones The Roman Catholic Church won't even condemn the teaching of "levitation" if it has that kind of effect on kids. In fact, Bob Roth was invited to the Vatican 6 weeks ago to speak about the David Lynch Foundation's work teaching kids to meditate (starts around 3::50): kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIemgn2iZr2Jo8k Because the Roman Catholic Church won't condemn the teaching of TM and "levitation" as a form of PTSD therapy, the governments of Latin America have started adopting it: The David Lynch Foundation has a contract to teach TM in every public school in Oaxaca, Mexico and the state mandates the teaching of "levitation" in every public high school. Literally thousands of high school kids are learning "levitation" every month in that state, under government contract: htps://www.nssoaxaca.com/2017/08/18/cobao-y-la-fundacion-david-lynch-firman-convenio-de-colaboracion/ The countries of Ecuador and Peru have contracted to have 1,000 school teachers trained as TM teachers by the end of 2018, while the government of Paraguay wants TM teacher training incorporated into the educational degree for school teacher so that all new public school teachers will be trained TM teachers. They'll all be doing that ceremony as mental preparation for teaching and to prepare the student for learning (and the old monk would be happy because his teacher is being honored). . Edit: as of January 2019, those 2,000 public school teachers are now teaching at their home schools. The guy in charge of TM in Latin America, Luis Alverez, says that the interest in TM in Latin America is 10x higher than he projected last year since every country and business he talks to now is negotiating in terms of the number of TM *teachers* to train, rather than number of people the governments and corporations want taught meditation.

[@time4sanity]

Love the analogy of the car...it's not the ultimate objective, it's just the vehicle by which you reach the objective.

[@LawsonEnglish]

Bob's friend, TM researcher Fred Travis, likes to say: "the purpose of the mantra is to forget the mantra." It's not quite accurate, but nothing you can SAY about TM is accurate: that's why you can't "explain" TM. Here's Maharishi Mahesh Yogi attempting to explain TM. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYO2p4pvgtFserM You'll notice that he corrects himself mid-sentencce at one point and still gets it wrong, because there is no way to get it "right" in an explanation. If the guy who trained tens of thousands of meditation teachers can't explain TM, what hope does anyone else have to explain it?

[@TysonGraf]

Nice podcast episode, Rich.

[@grand-merev.1104]

I truly enjoyed the information in this video. Long story short. My partner and I are both dedicated long time meditators. I practice insight/ Vipassana, my spouse is a 45 year practitioner of TM. In my experience, and observation I don't know that either is more, or less beneficial for our inner peace, insight, or deep stillness. What I have found most off putting regarding TM is that you have to pay to learn this form of practice, and receive your personal "mantra". That in, and of itself is a turn off for me.

[@LawsonEnglish]

Roth's organization accepts donation and sends TM teachers TO schools, prisons, Indian reservations, VA centers, homeless centers, orphanages, etc., to teach TM for free. They then spend the next year providing free followup IN those schools, prisons, Indian reservations etc. That's a full time job. Anyone who ever learns TM, no matter where or when they learned, or how much they paid (including $0) has the right to go to any TM center, anywhere in the world, for the rest of their life and get help. In the USA< that help is free-for-life. In 7 states and countries in Latin America, the governments are paying to have their OWN school teachers, doctors, nurses, prison counselors, military chaplains, etc learn to teach TM and THEY will teach TM for free as part of their government job. As with anyone else, their students have the right to go to any TM center anywhere in the world and get help with their meditation, for the rest of their lives. Setting up a world-wide organization that can train thousands (soon to be hundreds of thousands, if all goes well) government workers to be TM teachers took 60 years and A LOT OF MONEY. That's where everyone's fee has gone for the past 60 years: setting up an organization that could credibly negotiate with entire countries to provide meditation to the entire country. TM has the support of the highest level of the Indian government. When India's Minister of Yoga (yeah that's an official cabinet-level position in the Indian government - he reports directly to Prime Minister Modi (who learned TM many decades ago, by the way)) gets an invite to speak as guest of honor at a Harvard University symposium on Yoga, he drags along a TM research to talk about TM research on ayurveda and enlightenment: www.indiainnewyork.gov.in/pressevent?id=eyJpdiI6IkpnVXd6WHZ1aitNdmU2V0VLNEFYZ0E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiR2lHS1pEQ3FLTUp3OEJUU3dUUjBFZz09IiwibWFjIjoiYWQ2ZTAzMGI5NTVlNTEzNGFmM2M4N2I2NDdhNTdmNTg4ZTY0MDZiNTYwODgxNTY3NzU2YTEyNWQ1Yjg1NGNjYyJ9&page=2&pagecount=%206 PRESS RELEASE A delegation led by Mr. Shripad Yesso Naik, Minister for State (Independent Charge), Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India arrived in Boston to participate in the '2nd Harvard Medical School Conference on Integrative Medicine-Role of Yoga and Ayurveda' being held from May 20-22, 2017. On May 20, 2017, the Minister delivered a keynote address on the theme 'Role of Yoga and Ayurveda' at the Conference as the Chief Guest. Dr. Robert Schneider, Dean and Director, College of Integrative Medicine, Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention, Maharishi University of Management, Indiana would also speak at the Conference. Parallel symposia and presentations on Ayurvedaand Yoga were held as part of the Conference besides Panel Discussion on 'Strategies and steps for advancing Ayurveda and Yoga for healthcare'. May 20, 2017 New York You don't get that kind of buy-in from the Indian government merely by running some random meditation center, but by creating an international organization with a world-class reputation. And that takes money.

[@larryprimeau7738]

it's not for acquiring a mantra per se...its about how one uses it..does a person concentrate hard on it or repeat it softly out loud? they teach you how to use it which is whole of the practice. Its natural but we have taught ourselves how to do things unnaturally. A teacher of TM teaches how to use the mantra in a way that allows one to go beyond thought itself. IMO if the course cost 10x as much, it would still be well worth it.

[@ShAlAmAnAyA3]

I don't know anything about meditation...i recently learned about it and I know about its benefits...i'm starting off with my breath...just breath work for now:)

[@LawsonEnglish]

Rick, you might want to watch Bob Roth's talk at the Vatican 6 weeks ago (yes THAT Vatican), talking about the work of the David Lynch Foundation, starting at 3::50: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIemgn2iZr2Jo8k Roth's talk came about because of the work of THIS TM teacher, a Roman Catholic priest, and his nomination for the "World's Children's Prize, which came about partly because of his work teaching TM to disadvantaged children in Colombia: worldschildrensprize.org/gabrielmontoya The David Lynch Foundation did a documentary about Father Gabriel called "Saving the Disposable Ones": www.cutv.ws/play/8239/Saving-the-Disposable-Ones The first part of that video is heart-breaking (they're called "The Disposable Ones" for a reason). At 45::30, they start talking about teaching TM. The child speaking at 50::00 defines "Bliss" for me. Remember: all the kids in the video are "Disposable Ones" including the "Bliss" kid, just at various stages of Father Gabriel's program. The existence of this "before" and "after" contrast is why the Vatican won't condemn Father Gabriel for his work teaching TM, and it is the work of Father Gabriel and the David Lynch Foundation throughout Latin America for the past decade that has lead to government-level contracts to teach TM in every public school in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico: www.nssoaxaca.com/2017/08/18/cobao-y-la-fundacion-david-lynch-firman-convenio-de-colaboracion/ It is also why both Ecuador and Peru have contracted to have one thousand existing public school teachers in each country trained as TM teachers by the end of this year so that a million children in each country will learn TM ASAP. Watch "Saving the Disposable Ones" from start to finish to understand teh stance of the Vatican AND the stance of the governments of Peru and Ecuador, not to mention the governments of Paraguay, Costa Rica, Curacao and Suriname, all of which have contracted to have TM taught wholesale in public schools in those countries. The contracts in Ecuador and Peru alone are for 3.5 million children to learn to mediate. Perhaps you should get Bob Roth back on your podcast, or see if he can arrange for Father Gabriel (and translator) to speak. THe head of TM in Latin America might be an interesting person as well, but he's kinda busy at the moment finalizing the projects in Ecuador and Peru (TM teacher training for 5,000 people is due to start in a few weeks and last until the end of the year).

[@Drfiggy]

How do you keep track of the twenty minutes? Set an alarm? A soft alarm?

[@SDFocus23]

Read the Power of Now. Great book on achieving enlightenment and having a calm mind

[@margaretnagle6223]

Hi Rich & Bob! * Is There Or What Would Be The Difference Between Meditation And TM?

[@dianepotteryoga]

Your question was not answered: how do you get a class of kids to have quiet time? Anyone have any ideas?

[@DylanGriffiths-Jones-sl3yw]

A lot of of this Meditation movement started with the covid lockdown

[@lindastevenson6642]

how can we learn 3 please

[@susanwilson6621]

🙏

[@rapisode1]

I'm a hindu, my grandfather was a very devout priest, I've learned from him all the Patanjali sutras by heart. I've practiced Raja Yoga for 2 decades. TM meditation is Hindu meditation, it helps to an extent, but the Buddhists really took it much, much further. I firmly believe that the Buddhists are simply better at meditation (and that you shouldn't pay 1000 dollars for it). Vipassana, Metta and Samatha are far more developed and advanced. I really do not understand that as a self proclaimed yogi you deny the fact that the Buddhists are more developed in terms of meditation

[@faithf4988]

I have 6 kids, 5 with special needs....i would love to learn meditation but haven't been successful as of yet...interesting podcast

[@richroll]

Wow. That is a lot to handle and manage. I hope this conversation helps -- if you can find a way to carve out just a few minutes a day for this kind of self-care I think you would find it very helpful. Much love to you Faith:)

[@faithf4988]

thanks! his analogy of the ocean was brilliant....but with my crew (2 daughters with DS, one teen with CP, one teen with autism, and one teen with heart defects) my meditation often turns out like hanging onto a capsized dinghy in the middle of the Pacific...lol...i'll keep at it :)

[@LawsonEnglish]

One of Bob's most treasured meditation students is a severely autistic young man named Joey Loewenstein, who learned TM when he was a teenager. Bob tells his story on page 124 of the book. Joey now has his own website and foundation and promotes the use of TM in autistic kids. This is Joey's story on the David Lynch Foundation youtube channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4a6gaJprKh5a6M Bob makes a cameo appearance at 2:23

[@faithf4988]

thanks for the information....my son who is autistic is 14 and was misdiagnosed for years...antisocial, bipolar, ADHD, RAD, etc....I finally signed him out of the psych hospital this last year after they wanted to add another med to his already 21 med regime....I've weaned him off most of the meds and he is much less aggressive now....I would love to teach him meditation and tai chi....I think if he had those skills and could be comfortable in his own skin, it would help him be successful....thanks for the info!

[@LawsonEnglish]

Remember: TM is taught by a trained teacher, it's not something you casually pick up from a friend or a youtube channel. In fact, claiming that you can learn it from someone who isn't already enlightened was unheard of before Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and people were expected to spend years looking for that enlightened teacher: Taught by an inferior man this Self cannot be easily known, even though reflected upon. Unless taught by one who knows him as none other than his own Self, there is no way to him, for he is subtler than subtle, beyond the range of reasoning. Not by logic can this realization be won. Only when taught by another, [an enlightened teacher], is it easily known, dearest friend. -Katha Upanishad, I.2.8-9 Maharishi tried to get around that by developing a kind of interactive teaching play where the TM teacher spends 5 months on a meditation retreat learning the words, gestures, body-language and tone of voice that Maharishi used when teaching meditation, as well as how to modify the above to account for the needs of the student. He called it "duplicating myself" and spent the next 45 years of his life refining that teaching play based on feedback from thousands of TM teachers who taught millions of people to mediate. In a very literal sense, there is only one TM teacher - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - and thousands of his clones. So, if you're going to learn TM, or have your kids learn TM, do it right. TM learned from a book or youtube channel is NOT the same as TM learned from a trained teacher. There's a book-based and audio-file course called Natural Stress Relief that was created by a trained TM teacher. Someone in the reddit forum on TM learned NSR and practiced it for 8 months and then decided to learn TM. This is what he reported: www.reddit.com/r/transcendental/comments/80o9ps/personal_instruction_makes_all_the_difference/ the guy now refuses to try to answer questions online and tells them to go to the TM center to learn, just like everyone else who "gets" that TM is an intuitive practice that can't be taught from a book or youtube video or over the telephone or internet forum or whatever. There's something special about direct human, face-to-face contact: our brains are hard-wired to learn things like meditation that way.

[@DanielAlvarez-sl6yh]

What up Rich

[@DjangobeatTV]

"There should be no obstacle whether money..." Yet it is basically people paying to be given a word to repeat in their heads. Ok.

[@MetabolicBrain]

I am very interested in learning TM but can’t get my head around the $$$ fees to learn. Why is it so costly.....shouldn’t it be free? Why the secrecy too about how it’s done and the mystism behind the mantra? That makes me wonder. I believe in meditation totally but is TM culty? I wish you’d asked him this. I’d love to learn about Quiet Time program and how we can teach it in our schools.

[@LawsonEnglish]

THere's a sliding scale for learning TM. THe max price is $960 if you make more than $200,000 per year, and drops to $500 if you make $50,000 per year. If you are on food stamps, disability, etc, there's an entirely different fee structure. If you have other kinds of financial issues, they also take that into account. . TM IS free when kids learn it in the Quiet Time program. The David Lynch Foundation collects donations from the people who don't blink at paying $960 and hires TM teachers to teach TM for free to entire schools, and to homeless shelters, battered women shelters (both the women and their families - they're even trying to target teh abusers now because stress contributes to abuse). A lot of local Veterans Administration offices have deals with the local TM center to teach homeless vets and vets with PTSD for free (when the funding is available). TM costs money because TM teachers train for 5 months, in-residence, to become TM teachers. They learn a kind of interactive teaching play performed in 4 acts where they learn the words, gestures, body-language and even tone-of-voice that Maharishi used when teaching TM as well as how to modify the above to meet the needs of an individual student. TM comes from a tradition that says that only an enlightened teacher has the intuition to impart the intuitive practice we call TM, so TM teacher training was Maharishi's way of trying to get around that requirement: in a very real sense, there is only one TM teacher - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - and thousands of his clones. Every TM center in the world is required to provide a free lifetime followup program for anyone who ever learned TM through official channels, no matter where or when they learned or how much they paid (even if they learned for free through the David Lynch Foundation). Since providing the followup program is a full-time job, TM teachers get paid when they teach, but not when they provide the followup. There are entire states and now even entire countries where TM is being taught free to every student in every public school: Oaxaca, Mexico mandates TM instruction in every public school. That started last year, and you can read about the agreement with one high school system (COBAO - the college prep high schools of Oaxaca) here: translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=www.nssoaxaca.com/2017/08/18/cobao-y-la-fundacion-david-lynch-firman-convenio-de-colaboracion/&prev=search The governments of Costa Rica, Suriname and Curacao have the same deal. The government of Rio de Janeiro put all one thousand of its schools on the waiting list to learn TM 10 years ago, but not sure if that deal is still active: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5PMgKWmqq2Ea9U The government of Paraguay has made TM teacher training (that 5 month course) an official part of the training of all new public school teachers, while Ecuador and Peru have contracted to have one thousand existing public school teachers trained as TM teachers by the end of this year (the class starts at the end of this month). As far as the technique of TM being secret goes... THERE IS NO "technique." TM is "effortless thinking of a mantra." That's it. "Effortless thinking" isnt' a technique. However, effortless thinking IS an intuitive thing, and the best way to get that intutiion is by not knowing what is going to happen next when someone teaches the intution. So the TM organization asks new students to not tell people the details of the class. As Maharishi liked to put it: the technique of TM is innocence - not knowing what is going to happen - and it is hard to teach innocence from a book when the first instruction is: "Let's close our eyes." For the sake of fellow students, the TM organization asks people not to confuse their friends by going into the details of how they were taught. There's no "secret sauce" to TM practice, just a carefully choreographed, carefully performed teaching play, and the TM organization asks people not to publish "spoilers" for that teaching play.

[@connaghananthony]

@@LawsonEnglish i think thats the most comprehensive response Ive read on youtube 👍

[@LawsonEnglish]

@@connaghananthony Was it persuasive however? If you want the best before after picture of TM, watch these two videos: THe first is a documentary about the work of a Roman Catholic priest (nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and named a Hero of the World's Children by the Queen of Sweden, among other awards) who uses TM and related practices as therapy for PTSD in children: www.cutv.ws/play/8239/Saving-the-Disposable-Ones "The Disposable Ones" are the homeless, drug-addicted child prostitutes living on the streets of Medellin, Colombia. To get an idea of what their lives are like, watch about 15:30 and compare what they are like after moths of work, when the priest deems them ready to learn TM, starting after 45:30. For maximum contrast, look at that poor child just after 17:30 and compare with a child from similar circumstances just after a TM session at 50:00. You've never seen a transformation like that before in your life and literally, and I do mean literally, no-one else in the world has either (see below). Now look at the after picture: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqCudoiMaa6prdE Every single kid in that second video was a gang member, forced to murder someone as an initiation rite, or a child-rebel forced at gunpoint to slaughter villagers, or a homeless drug-addicted child-prostitute - only 6-18 months earlier! When the Archbishop of Colombia heard that there was some Roman Catholic priest teaching not just meditation, but the traditional yogic *levitation* (!!!) technique to children, he went to this priest and demanded to know what he thought he was doing. Father Gabriel's response was "talk to the children." After reviewing the before and after videos and realizing that every child he was talking to came from that background, the Archbishop simply walked off without saying a word. Recently, Bob Roth was invited to give a 30 minute talk at the Vatican Impacting Children’s Health Through Meditation Globally kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIemgn2iZr2Jo8k And recently, Catholic Health World published this article online: www.chausa.org/publications/catholic-health-world/archives/issues/october-15-2018/medical-students-learn-meditation-to-counter-stress-promote-physician-wellness So I think the Vatican must have been pretty impressed by things.

[@connaghananthony]

@@LawsonEnglish it was indeed. I shall watch those videos asap.

[@LawsonEnglish]

@@connaghananthony The priest was nominated for the World's Children's Prize earlier this year. This is his bio: worldschildrensprize.org/gabrielmontoya

[@ShAlAmAnAyA3]

I get anxiety from just coffee alone.

[@paula-pw7yd]

Coffee alone is my best place - I love being in a coffee house enjoying my morning coffee, reading, planning my day, people watching. I hope you get past alone time being an anxiety - it’s so limiting. Have a good day today

[@satanasdelincuente]

I heard you have to pay over $1000 for a personal mantra.....and that they try to teach you to fly......... I admit prejudice toward TM..... Please clarify for me. I try to have an open mind but I fear this is a pyramid scheme.... I have received mantras for no charge : from an ordained buddhist monk in a Korean lineage and of course everyone knows the Maha Mantra (Hare Krishna).... Are these less effective if you get them for no charge? Again I am open to a discussion on this....

[@banjohead66]

When you take basic TM instruction, you're simply paying to learn a technique. The provided mantra simply acts as a focal point and there's nothing meaningful or significant (intentionally) about the mantra itself. The three sessions which follow the instruction given on the first day are simply guidance on correct performance of the technique. After having been given the initial instruction, you may have your technique re-checked at any certified center at no extra charge for life. The organization is a non-profit and provides free or subsidized instruction for those that cannot afford it, particularly veterans and abuse survivors.

[@LawsonEnglish]

TM is very different from any other widely available practice, the reason being that traditionally only an enlightend guru was thought to have the intuition to be able to impart that intuition to someone else. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi tried to get around that issue by devising a kind of interactive teaching play that TM teachers rehearse for 5-months, in-residence, learning the words, gestures, body-language and tone-of-voice that Maharishi used when teaching meditation, as well as how to modify the above based on the needs of a given student. He called it "duplicating myself" and then spent forty-five years of his life refining that teaching method based on feedback from thousands of TM teachers who eventually taught millions of people to meditate, In a very real sense, there is only one TM teacher - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - and thousands of his clones. So, if you're lucky enough to find an enlightened teacher, feel free to learn from them. Otherwise, there's your local TM center. When Yukio Hatoyama wanted to learn meditation 25 years ago, he visited his local TM center, rather than taking advantage of his family's prestige and tracking down an enlightened Zen master. Hatoyama-san is former Prime Minister of India, and grandson of another Prime Minister and great-grandson of the Speaker of the House of Representative in the first Imperial Diet, so when I say "family's prestige," I'm talking about Kennedy-level prestige in Japan. Here's Hatoyama-san giving the commencement speech at the TM university in Iowa kzbin.info/www/bejne/imrMp6WEeruWj8k, starting around 14::50 When people like that choose to learn TM instead of seeking an enlightened master, that should tell you something.

[@ImprovingAbility]

My parents learned TM in the 80ties. They paid a whole lot of money for just a couple of sessions. As a pre-teenager I did not understand how much, but I remember it was a lot for my dad who was a well paid manager of a multinational corporation. I kind of admire these teachers for how extremely strongly they are able to monetize, a skill I totally lack.

[@LawsonEnglish]

Your parents have the right to go to any TM center in the world, for the rest of their lives, to get help with their meditaiton practice... for free. That's what they paid for, not just 4 days (not 2) of instruction.

[@LawsonEnglish]

@John Manoochehri These days the Prime Minister of India is a huge supporter of TM. I don't know if he still does it, but 25 years ago he visited The Netherlands when he was a young politician and had a private audience with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. These days, the TM organization and Prime Minister Modi's government seem joined at the hip. When the Minister of Yoga (that's a real cabinet-level position) was Guest of Honor at a Harvard University symposium on Yoga, the Indian Consulate sent out a press release about two speakers: the Minister of Yoga, and a TM researcher he brought along to talk about research on enlightenment and Ayurveda: www.indiainnewyork.gov.in/pressevent?id=eyJpdiI6IkpnVXd6WHZ1aitNdmU2V0VLNEFYZ0E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiR2lHS1pEQ3FLTUp3OEJUU3dUUjBFZz09IiwibWFjIjoiYWQ2ZTAzMGI5NTVlNTEzNGFmM2M4N2I2NDdhNTdmNTg4ZTY0MDZiNTYwODgxNTY3NzU2YTEyNWQ1Yjg1NGNjYyJ9&page=2&pagecount=%206 When the TM organization was negotiating with the government of Suriname to have TM and Ayurveda integrated with that country's medical profession, Prime Minister Modi stepped in personally to help with the negotiations (20-30% of Suriname is Hindu, so it wasn't some out-of-the-blue intervention).

[@waytogoraw9965]

I was initiated in TM years ago, cant say why but I just dont except what he is saying...not comfortable, perhaps false in formation

[@icyearth]

Watch David Lynch in Berlin by wecomo documentary or something like that and your suspiciouns will be confirmed.

[@tripp8833]

He saying some whacky things

[@danafoltin8114]

min. 33 : Warriors could not fight with an anger and revenge on their mind !!!??? I lost interest right there because it is just the opposite..............

[@LawsonEnglish]

Heh? You take someone who is angry and pit them against a trained professional who is calm and see who wins in a real fight.

[@neorich59]

I hear this over and again, that is should be "available to everyone," regardless of income. Very noble. Only, it's not. In the UK, they're asking £295 as a "concession," for those on unemployment benefit, known here as "Universal Credit." Trust me when I say, that unless they have the permitted amount of savings, that nobody receiving U.C. could spare as much as a tenner. So, are these people going to offer it free? I very much doubt it! Kerr-CHING! £$£$ 😉