Esoteric teachings on reincarnation and consciousness,

simple teachings on compassion and ethics.

As principal English translator of his Holiness,

the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet,

Geshattupt and Jinpa finishes the Dalai Lama's sentences.

In other circumstances, you must protect.

So, there is a kind of a guarding and protecting a nurturing of the body

and then...

and then also a perfection of those resources and body,

and then increasing and enhancing there.

Meet this philosopher and former monk,

now a husband and father of two daughters,

and hear what happens when the ancient tradition

embodied in the Dalai Lama meets science and life.

One thing that I cherish about the experience of translating for him

is the joyful state of mind I can automatically get into.

But when I try to cultivate that state of mind

in my own quiet sitting meditation, it's tougher.

And this is of course a tremendous source of energy and enthusiasm.

And also it's a constant reminder to me that ordinary people can strive

to that kind of state of mind,

so that I find most transformative.

...