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

To get exclusive updates and video from the event with his Holiness the Dalai Lama please sign up at http://www.peakmind.org If the content was of value, please like, subscribe, and share across platforms. It is our intention to have this free valuable content benefit as many people as possible and in taking said actions you boost its relevance across these platforms. Thank you! :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 Gratitude to all for listening and to all those that supported in making the event and this podcast a reality. Thank you for listening and joining the community. Please like, subscribe, and share with those who would find this information valuable. Special Thanks to Forest Whitaker for the introduction, Tim Fain for the music, and Andrea Fennewald for her tireless support in making the vision a reality. For more: http://www.instagram.com/michaeltrainer and http://www.instagram.com/peak_mind on instagram and http://www.Facebook.com/michaeltrainer for photographs and additional insights/inspiration. Youtube of Part 1 of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mBdiJQRw3M&t=12s Please subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/michaeltrainer for first look at all the videos from the Podcast plus bonus content Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube