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Re:Author of ‘Sapiens’ on how meditation made him a better h... by tzury on Sunday March 19, 2017 @04:11PM (#13909346)
Jerry Seinfeld on Meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7Yru3cHoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeRdy6LrOAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-YFdJSnGI0

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Re:Author of ‘Sapiens’ on how meditation made him a better h... by ndr on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:35PM (#13910507)
There's a lot of Bob Roth in those videos. I fell in the rabbit hole and came across his short presentation of TM[0].

It feels like a huge PR stunt to sell his certified "Transcendental Meditation®" trainings. Does anyone here have an insight into that?

[0] https://vimeo.com/87931619

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Re:Author of ‘Sapiens’ on how meditation made him a better h... by jblow on Sunday March 19, 2017 @09:36PM (#13911043)
Having done TM as well as Vipassana (discussed in the original article) and other meditations, I do not recommend TM. You will do just fine (or better) with other things. TM happens to have some famous exponents (e.g. David Lynch) but I find it a somewhat cult-like money extraction machine, and the actual meditation they teach to be less worthwhile than the other flavors of meditation in which I have experience.
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