The Meditator
Hollywood director David Lynch, currently visiting Israel, believes he has a way of bringing peace to the Middle East.
Transcendental meditation anyone?
David Lynch, on a five-day visit to Israel to encourage transcendental meditation, met with Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres.
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The 61-year-old director, who has received Oscar nominations for “The Elephant Man,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mullholland Dr.,” is visiting Israel to encourage transcendental meditation as a new approach to eliminating violence in schools and creating a peaceful world.
“Real peace is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all suffering, all negativity,” Lynch said at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. “Change comes from within. From the first meditation, boom, you’re there.”
Unfortunately, I don’t see the palestinians giving up the “boom” for the meditation.
He started the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace to promote transcendental meditation as a way to aid students in violence-ridden schools and bring about world harmony.
With meditation, Lynch said, the “black cloud of negativity dissolves.”
Meditation can aid not only schoolchildren, but also bring tranquility to troubled regions of the world, he said.
“The experienced gardener doesn’t worry about the leaves. Get at (the problem) from its roots,” he said. “A peace on the surface — it doesn’t address the seeds of war … it’s a `peace’ of paper.”
Methinks someone has been smoking a bit too much peace pipe. Or something a lot stronger.
In any event, he’s not the worst Lynch we’ve had in Israel.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: Uncategorized
What is most disturbing to me is that this is symptomatic of a much greater issue: the biggest chink in the armor of those in the “war on terror”
Sadly, the majority of the western population still does not realize that we are dealing with zero logic and zero rationality. The goal is single-minded; the TOTAL annihilation of all culture and activity that is minutely contradictory to radical Islam. If it takes one year or a hundred, it does not matter to them (take your pick who “them” is, hamas, hezbollah, al qaeda, fata etc.) as long as there is anyone living and breathing who does not capitulate to the rules of radical Islam, this fight will continue.
It is time to set aside “mediation” and win this war so we can get on with a goal of a peaceful life.
People think there can be discussions and dialogue, concessions and compromise. However, the problem with compromise, is, it takes 2 people who are willing, not one who wants everything, specifically, your destruction. That is not a concession or a compromise, it is defeat.
Alternatively, we can all just give-up and die….one or the other.
What I find amazing is that the BBC has not thought of updating that article that still says :
“Their deaths were captured on film with the same power as the last moments of the short life of Muhammad al-Durrah, shot by Israeli troops 12 days ago as his father vainly tried to shield him with his own body.”
Noone actually knows who shot Al Durrah and it seems that it was not the israel army …
rafraf
Wow, the propaganda in that BBC article is astounding. They don’t bother to even try to mask the bias.
They say when you speak, you should speak for the audience.
So why’s he just talking to Israel? Where’s all those “negative” people at? or did they not show up?
Who cares if David Lynch doesn’t make any sense? He’s a surrealist at heart; they make as much sense as a Dali painting.
Big Country,
Nice to have you commenting