David Lynch : Transcendental Meditation for david

When the awareness transcends

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:00:00 +0100

About two years ago I was introduced to a form of Tai Chi called Tai Chi Chur. And I took on the process with an open heart. And what I discovered was that after meditating for periods of weeks, off and on for months, I noticed an incredible amount of negativity come out in me. In fact, I noticed events in my life becoming more chaotic. And I’m wondering: What is this stuff that you start to access? And in a way, I don’t really do much of this Tai Chi Chur anym [...]

To know yourself

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Meditation sounds like being selfish. It sounds like it’s all about the individual, and it doesn’t matter what the rest of the world is or wants.

No. It’s opposite of selfish, because we’re like light bulbs. And you go into a room where a couple has just had a violent argument: you can feel that. You can feel that; it’s not pleasant. You go into a room where someone just finished meditating, and it’s a beautiful [...]

Enlivening consciousness

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

I’m curious about consciousness. From what I heard, when we engage in Transcendental Meditation, one goes through layers of the mind and achieves unity at the bottom. I’m curious to know what impure consciousness is. It sounds like we’re going from a world of diversity, with difference, down to a world of no difference. But the world is full of difference, and that’s not necessarily bad.

No, it’s so beautiful! There&r [...]

Transcendental Meditation, Vedic language, and consciousness

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

I have a kind of a two-part question. One: I have heard how much dreams influence and inspire your work, but I heard somewhere that it’s not the dreams that occur while sleeping as it is, say, daydreaming—dreams while conscious. Okay: so that’s true enough, I suppose—that was the first part, whether that was true or not. And the second part is, how much that can be related to your practice of Transcendental Meditation—does that come out of you [...]

Meditation and creativity

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Does meditation help you get ideas for your movies?

I made Mulholland Drive, as some of you know, for a continuing story on television. So Mulholland Drive was going to be—this particular thing was going to be—the pilot: open-ended, and make you want to see, you know, more and more. And so ABC saw this, and I heard this story: the man who was making the decision saw it at 6:00 a.m.—watching television across the room, saw the thi [...]

Bringing Transcendental Meditation to children today

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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—t [...]

Field of all possibilities

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Do you believe that once one has the ability to access this ocean of consciousness that one has the ability to manifest one’s own interactions with their surroundings? Meaning that, you know, this person is aware that they have tapped into this pool of consciousness, but it’s no longer limited to their own experience; it’s literally spilling out to the rest of their surroundings. It’s almost as if they’re already aware of what is going on, and [...]

Transcendental Meditation and consciousness expansion

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:00:00 +0100

You’ve mentioned the benefit of Transcendental Meditation as being like a sort of consciousness expansion. My question is: Do you think there’s any other way to induce that consciousness expansion, like illicit substances or art, or any other suggestions you might have?

No. The thing is, there’s experience, there’s information, there’s intellectual knowledge. But consciousness isn’t an intellectual knowledge. Th [...]

World peace, war, and social mobility

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:00:00 +0100

I have a question regarding world peace: What do you think about war sometimes being a necessity for social mobility?

This thing about world peace: I’ve heard that Maharishi had a technology to amplify, enliven, so much unity through a peace-creating group that it could bring harmony and coherence—real peace—to the world. And real peace is not just the absence of war. Real peace is the absence of those seeds of war—negativi [...]

Meditation and the story

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:00:00 +0100

I have a question about story. When you’re in meditation, the process of story—does it come to you visually? When I watch your films, they are like a meditation to me. And you use colors, and you use rhythm, and you use timing, and you also—your stories are surprising and always revealing. And I wonder how your meditation influences you in that way, and how you convey that on the set to the actors—how do you all work together to bring that to light? [...]

What is the field of consciousness?

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Can you explain about consciousness?

The field of consciousness, the field of pure consciousness, as explained by Dr. John Hagelin, is also known as the Unified Field—the Unified Field found at the base of all matter. And it’s found at the base of all mind, at the source of thought. And this Unified Field is also beyond space and time. It’s unbounded and eternal; it’s beyond duality. It’s oneness; it’s unity. An [...]

Drugs or meditation

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Have you ever used hallucinogenic drugs for inspiration, or have you done it entirely through meditation?

I have smoked marijuana. But I don’t smoke it any more. And I was pretty lucky—and it’s a true thing. You know, I went to art school in the ’60s. So you can imagine what was going on. And yet my friends were the ones: they said, “No, no, no, David: don’t you take those drugs.”

How do ideas become a script?

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +0100

How do you find your ideas, and how do you form them into a script?

That’s a beautiful question. I think a desire for an idea is like a bait. And I say it’s like fishing. You desire an idea. And when you go fishing, you know you have to have patience. And you bait your hook, and then you just kind of wait. But the desire is that bait that pulls those fish in—those ideas. And the beautiful thing is: when you catch one fish that yo [...]

Music and consciousness

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Can you explain how you use music to transform consciousness within your story?

But it doesn’t expand—music doesn’t expand consciousness. The only thing that expands consciousness… You know, they have these so-called “consciousness raising” groups. What they’re doing is sharing information, or giving information. It doesn’t raise consciousness. Consciousness can be raised only by experiencing that d [...]

Does meditation protect you?

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +0100

How can you just so fully commit to the violent, dark nature of life—mostly in Twin Peaks, I think, and all of them—how can you be so committed to that darkness without being harmed by it? And how does meditation help you with that?

In a way—this is a strange thing, but it’s a true thing in my experience–bliss is like a flack jacket. Bliss is like a protecting thing. If you have so much bliss, they say it’s [...]

Where to meditate, even on location

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Could you share your technique for being able to meditate twice a day while you’re shooting your films?

Yes. I wanted this meditation. And I think that the key is this desire for it. And where it came from, you know, I don’t know for sure, but I wanted it. And so I have never missed a meditation in those 32 years, twice a day, morning and afternoon. You wake up, you do your meditation, and then you go about your business. And in the ev [...]

On the way to Enlightenment

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Have you been enlightened?

I’m not enlightened, I have to tell you. But on the way to enlightenment, the good news is: every day gets better. When you experience this consciousness, this ocean of consciousness has qualities. And those qualities are bliss. They call it sometimes “bliss consciousness.” And you can dive in and get wet with this bliss consciousness. And it expands. Inner happiness grows. It’s so beautiful. It&r [...]

Transcendental Meditation over the years

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:00:00 +0100

How has your meditation evolved over the years—from a different experience each time, or gone back to the same thing?

With Transcendental Meditation, it’s been my experience, and talking to others their experience as well, you’re an expert from your first meditation.

And we could start talking about consciousness. Consciousness is this quite abstract thing. And it’s—yet the number one i [...]

The start of Transcendental Meditation

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:00:00 +0100

How did you get interested in meditation?

When I first heard about meditation, I had zero interest in it. And I’d hear it, but I wasn’t even curious about it. I was not for it nor against it; I just didn’t care to know about it.

And I had these phrases coming that we all hear, that “True happiness doesn’t exist out there; true happiness lies within.” And that phrase always got me. But in that [...]

The truth is the truth

sanunit@iowatelecom.net — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:00:00 +0100

When I listen to you talk about Transcendental Meditation, I like everything about it. But I am a devout Christian, and Transcendental Meditation comes from a tradition totally different from Christianity—Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a Hindu monk. I feel I’m ready to learn TM, but I can do it only I reconcile it with my beliefs.

I was raised Presbyterian. I respect people who are religious, and I think they find something there that’s beautiful. There’s truth there [...]