Mick Jagger, Meditation Advocate?

You might have seen that meme/photo of the Rolling Stones that's going around, the one where Sir Mick is holding a sign that says "Meditate every day!" Click on it here and take a closer look at it; you'll see, of course, that it's pretty clearly bogus. No surprise there.

What might be surprising to some, though, is that the idea of "Mick Jagger, Meditation Advocate" seems to be grounded in reality.

As I explained on The Worst Horse in September of 2010, the semi-notorious UK paper The Sun reported that Jagger is a regular visitor to Laos, where, said one source: "He spent hours with monks in the temples and chanted with them. He practises Buddhist and meditation every day. He says it's the first thing he does when he gets up in the morning."

The singer has stayed away from commenting on this much more than telling the Daily Mail, wryly, "It's too debilitating to drink a lot, so I use other relaxation techniques… I sit on my own, calm down, take stock."

So while the meme does put words into that world-famous big mouth (so to speak), it really might not be so far off. And as commenter Jaime McLeod wrote in response to that Worst Horse item: "I've been saying for a long time that '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' and 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' are modern Western Buddhist hymns. Go Mick!"

See also: Miley Cyrus, Meditation Advocate?

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