Moby has spoken out in favour of Transcendental Meditation. The award-winning singer and musician, who is a committed Christian, explained that he had avoided it for a long time because he thought it might have involved “ritual animal sacrifice or moving to some country and renouncing wealth and materialism”. However once he learnt it in 2008, he realised how natural and practical it was.
He said: “One of the things that impressed me so much about TM when I finally learned it was its simplicity. It’s a simple practice that calms the mind… and the thing that won me over about TM, apart from having my hero David Lynch as its vocal practitioner, was its effectiveness. Nothing else helped me quiet my mind and go to a calm, centred place. The thing that makes it effective is you don’t have to do all that much, and, as a profoundly lazy person, I appreciate that”.
