What’s Jerry Seinfeld’s big regret? That he used to skip his morning TM session! Now that he’s meditating twice a day and has way more energy, he can see what he missed: “My entire energy, focus, and ability to function all day and come home and have the family… Now I am functioning on this level I just didn’t think was possible for someone my age… It’s just a dumb way to live, not doing it. You don’t need to die for what you want to accomplish. That’s what TM is all about.”
David Lynch and others watch Jerry Seinfeld at the David Lynch Foundation Fundraising Gala, November 2013
Seinfeld has been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique since 1972. As an ardent supporter of the David Lynch Foundation and its programs bringing the TM program to high-stress populations, he’s also donated his comedic talents for its fundraising galas—like this one in 2013.
In true Seinfeldian fashion, his routine starts with Amazon drones and ends with insights into practicing TM twice a day to fully recharge his batteries, comedic and otherwise.
Thank you!! That was a powerful show, and so true because I have only been doing TM in the am, and will start again in the PM.
Jerry was the perfect TM presenter and the laughter was contagious!!
I’m curious as to why Mr. Seinfeld didn’t get the message in the beginning that 20 minutes twice a day is a basic requirement. Was it taught differently 40 years ago? I have only been practicing TM since mid-May and I learned that basic tenet on day one.
Thanks for your comment, Iris! The TM course has been taught the same way for decades, but Mr. Seinfeld chose to meditate just once a day in his earlier years of practice—hence his wish that he’d done TM twice a day all along!