RESONANCE
RESONANCE
Michael Trainer
HH DALAI LAMA & FOREST WHITAKER: 'The very purpose of your life...'
52 minutes Posted Mar 4, 2019 at 3:23 pm.
Harvard’s research on the cognitive benefits of meditation
The launch of Peak Mind Summit
What shocked me about His Holiness
His Holiness the Dalai Lama comes in // Grounding the space
Forest Whitaker comes in to lead Happy Birthday for His Holiness
Forest Whitaker introduction evokes Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Theresa
Our collective obligation for our planet, our connection to to each other
Musical tribute by Tim Fain
The beginning of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s talk
The virtue of closeness to nature
“Each day is a new birthday”
His Holiness on the very purpose of our life
The caged tiger
Intelligence/brain combined with warm-heartedness/compassion is constructive
Seeking joy through sensory level experiences
the impermanence of sensory satisfaction
Need for more attention to mental level experiences, beyond sensory experience sensory experience can overshadow true mental level experience
Diminishing the importance of sensory dependence
Cultivating greater focus, single pointed meditation
Focused attention on consciousness itself
Part of the practice is disengaging from sensory activity
cultivating mind itself, true consciousness
The impossibility of immediate gratification
Insights into impermanence
The conviction of critical reflection
hearing, analysis, and experience is the third way of knowing (analytical meditation)
The virtue of different perspectives in analytical meditation
Negativity distorts your reality, the necessity of objective inquiry Vipassana - insight meditation
The necessity of compassion
need for concern for 7 billion people’s well being, moving beyond color and nationality and anything that separates us
We are essentially the same human being
We depend on each other, compassion is the way to celebrate the 7 billion and nature
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