R.I.P. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

                  

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi passed away on Tuesday.  He was the founder of Transcendental Meditation, and guru to such luminaries as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and David Lynch.  This news resonates on a particularly synchronistic level for me personally, as I very recently finished reading a small gem of a book by Lynch entitled Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity.  In the book, Lynch discusses the impact his practice of Transcendental Meditation has had on his life and his creative process, saying that it has allowed him to gain access to more vivid, potent ideas:

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

In a further twist, my pal Joanna and I had been planning on going to our local Transcendental Meditation center today, to learn more about the practice ourselves.  May Maharishi Mahesh Yogi rest in peace, and with the knowledge that his legacy is spreading day by day.