| Untagged | 8 Oct 2008 |
| Bringing Transcendental Meditation to children today by david | |
I’m wondering: in this world of today, where children are being raised over cell phones—they don’t have really any time to reflect on their lives—how are you planning on bringing Transcendental Meditation to our youth?
It’s a big question. Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, very easy and effortless to do, yet supremely profound in that it allows any human being to dive within—all the way in—through subtler levels of mind and intellect, and transcend, and experience this ocean of pure consciousness at the source of thought, source of mind, source of matter—a beautiful, beautiful area. Experiencing this field of pure consciousness unfolds it and enlivens it. And it’s a field—sometimes they call it “bliss consciousness.” And this is that thing of inner happiness. Inner happiness starts to grow. Consciousness—our ability to understand, our awareness, our wakefulness—all this begins to expand.
And I’ve been to visit two schools, three schools, where they introduced this Consciousness-Based education. The same knowledge comes in; the only difference is that container of knowledge, that container of understanding—that students are diving within and unfolding that. Happiness grows.
There’s a school in Detroit, the Nataki School: the kids meditate ten minutes together in the morning in the gymnasium, ten minutes in the afternoon before they go home in the gymnasium. Happy campers—excelling—bright, shiny consciousness on these faces. And you don’t worry about them. They’re self-sufficient; they’re doing so beautifully.
There’s this guy Doc Rutherford in Washington, D.C., introduced it into three different schools that he’s run. He says, “I get the staff meditating, I get the teachers meditating, I get the students meditating, and watch it all turn around”—because the schools he started in were filled with violence, filled with problems.
Appreciation for life goes so beautifully in growth—unbelievable things. You turn off the cell phones for a short time in the morning, a short time in the evening, dive within, and watch life get better and better.
