HH DALAI LAMA & FOREST WHITAKER: 'The very purpose of your life...'

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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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