Dr David Lynch has met with many teachers and students who are 'diving within' and has seen that Consciousness-Based Education has profoundly good benefits for them.

The benefits of Transcendental Meditation for students: Dr David Lynch
by Global Good News staff writer
12 November 2010

Speaking on the 13 September 2006 at a press conference in Amsterdam, Holland, Dr David Lynch, Founder of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, was asked about the effect of Transcendental Meditation on his creativity and why he was now funding scholarships for students to also learn the technique.

Dr Lynch answered that Transcendental Meditation is a personal thing. He commented that what he loved about it is that you learn how to do it and when you leave the teacher, 'you go out and you're on your own.

'You just go about your business. Add that twenty minutes in the morning and twenty minutes in the evening to your life and go about your business—and watch things get better,’ he said. ‘That was my experience.'

Dr Lynch commented that one starts seeing and hearing things on the news in which there is so much suffering every single day. In schools, students are experiencing stress at a younger and younger age. ‘Students are afraid to go to school,’ Dr Lynch said. ‘They don't get along with one another. Students are depressed; they take anti-depressants; they have learning disorders—and it turns into a sort of hell.'

What would happen if these students learnt to 'dive within', Dr Lynch asked. He recounted having met some students who had gone to schools that had introduced Consciousness-Based Education. The students had experienced Transcendental Meditation—'which means that the students have the same education, the same courses, but they add to their programme 'diving within' each day, morning and evening,' he explained.

What happens? Dr Lynch commented that the students are living on the surface of life, 'suffering away,' and they are taught ‘this simple, easy-to-do, effortless yet supremely profound technique,' to turn the mind within. The student 'dives happily through subtler levels of mind and intellect,’ Dr Lynch continued. ‘The student transcends and experiences this ocean of pure bliss consciousness, pure creativity, pure intelligence, pure love, at the source of thought, the base of mind.

'This experience is us,' Dr Lynch emphasized. 'It's the Self, and it's so familiar and so beautiful. Every human being should have this experience. We are built to have this experience, and experiencing this field enlivens it. It grows . . . you start unfolding your full potential.'

Education should unfold the student's full potential, Dr Lynch commented, not create workers who go out and continue in stress and anxiety, 'trying to make ends meet.

'Life should be blissful,' he continued, 'filled with ideas, creativity, and love. It's possible to unfold this from within.'

He added that if you watch students who have done this, it transforms their life. 'Students’ IQ goes up; their grades go up; they get along better with their fellow students. They get along better with their teachers. They start becoming so powerful from the inside that you stop worrying about them.

'It's a beautiful, beautiful gift to all students.'

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