We are pleased to share that on July 4, 2015, our Founder and CEO, Mr. Forest Whitaker introduced His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the PeakMind Summit in Irvine, California. It was an honor for Mr. Whitaker to introduce His Holiness the Dalai Lama given his boundless capacity for love and mindfulness, and his influence throughout the world. The Dalai Lama’s messages of peace and forgiveness are a source of inspiration to so many. For us at WPDI, his teachings are both educational and motivational.
The PeakMind Summit is an event that brought together leaders in all domains – business, the sciences, athletics, and the arts – to discuss the power of meditation and mindfulness. His Holiness the Dalai Lama served on a panel about meditation as a way of achieving freedom from the mind. This event also recognized the global changes that can occur with individuals practicing meditation. According to PeakMind, “A global shift is underway and it’s happening from the inside out.”
At WPDI, we truly embrace meditation as a form of bringing inner peace in order to form outer peace in our world. Many videos and publication resources about meditation and yoga are posted in the Global Peacemakers Network or our website. In our Youth Peacemaker Network programs in Mexico, South Sudan, and Uganda, we emphasize yoga and meditation as one of the major educational categories of our workshops. Indeed, meditation can serve as a method of achieving freedom from the mind, help us to achieve peace in our lives and in this world and to achieve our most aspirational dreams.
As July 4 was also the birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the event included cake with a rendition of happy birthday sung by all in his honor.