This is a once in a lifetime episode with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Here His Holiness shares rare insights into the purpose of life, alignment of heart and mind, different vehicles for cultivation of the mind, and how you can tap into joy. It was recorded at the launch of Peak Mind hosted by Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and your series host Michael Trainer.
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:27 Origin story for Peak Mind
1:00 Harvard’s research on the cognitive benefits of meditation
1:55 The launch of Peak Mind Summit
2:50 What shocked me about His Holiness
7:23 His Holiness the Dalai Lama comes in // Grounding the space
8:55 Forest Whitaker comes in to lead Happy Birthday for His Holiness
10:35 Forest Whitaker introduction evokes Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Theresa
13:20 Our collective obligation for our planet, our connection to to each other
16:22 Musical tribute by Tim Fain
21:23 The beginning of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s talk
22:30 The virtue of closeness to nature
24:27 “Each day is a new birthday”
24:48 His Holiness on the very purpose of our life
25:30 The caged tiger
28:26 Intelligence/brain combined with warm-heartedness/compassion is constructive
29:45 Seeking joy through sensory level experiences
31:15 the impermanence of sensory satisfaction
32:00 Need for more attention to mental level experiences, beyond sensory experience - sensory experience can overshadow true mental level experience
33:21 Diminishing the importance of sensory dependence
34:24 Cultivating greater focus, single pointed meditation
35:50 Focused attention on consciousness itself
37:30 Part of the practice is disengaging from sensory activity
38:48 cultivating mind itself, true consciousness
39:15 The impossibility of immediate gratification
41:15 Insights into impermanence
42:20 The conviction of critical reflection
42:40 hearing, analysis, and experience is the third way of knowing (analytical meditation)
43:20 The virtue of different perspectives in analytical meditation
44:40 Negativity distorts your reality, the necessity of objective inquiry - Vipassana - insight meditation
46:00 The necessity of compassion
47:00 need for concern for 7 billion people’s well being, moving beyond color and nationality and anything that separates us
48:39 We are essentially the same human being
49:20 We depend on each other, compassion is the way to celebrate the 7 billion and nature
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