Religion News Service
NEW YORK, U.S., March 5, 2009: More than 40 years after they traveled to India to study transcendental meditation, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will reunite for the cause.
The only two surviving Beatles, who rarely appear in public together, will perform at “Paul McCartney and Friends: Change Begins Within,” an April 4 benefit at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Proceeds will go to the meditation-promoting David Lynch Foundation, with the goal of teaching a million at-risk children to meditate.
McCartney said in a news release he has benefited from practicing meditation over the last four decades.
The Beatles studied transcendental meditation in India in 1968. Their instructor, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, died last year.