Imagination, Creativity,
and Inner Peace

Gen Kelsang Mondrub at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Tuesday, September 23, at 7pm in the Hill Auditorium
Tickets: $20 or $15 students/seniors/limited income

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About the Lecture

By transforming our mind to become more positive and peaceful, we change the way experience our reality. Through this process we can eventually step into this new world like an artist stepping into his canvas, and experience the lasting world peace we long for. This process of gradually changing our mind from a dissatisfied, unpeaceful state into a contented, peaceful state is the ultimate form of creativity: we can allow ourselves to create with our imagination a happy, peaceful, even blissful world, and as we familiarize ourselves with this vision, we will eventually transform our imagined world into a new reality.

"How is it possible for something that exists only in our imagination to become a reality? It is a remarkable quality of the mind that we first create objects with our imagination and then bring them into our everyday reality. In fact, everything starts in the imagination. For example, the house we live in was first created in the imagination of the architect... All external creations such as money, cars, and computers were developed in dependence upon someone's imagination - if no one would have imagined them, they never would have been invented. In the same way, all inner creations and all Dharma realizations, even liberation and enlightenment, are developed in dependence upon the imagination. Therefore, for both worldly and spiritual attainments, the imagination is of primary importance." - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life

About the Speaker

Gen Kelsang Mondrub is an American Buddhist monk and the Resident Teacher of Rameshori Buddhist Center of Sandy Springs, GA. He has been a student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso - a world-renowned Buddhist author and meditation master - for over fifteen years. During the past seven years in Atlanta, Gen Mondrub has taught extensively throughout the southeast to enthusiastic audiences who have enjoyed his warm, humorous, and practical presentations of Buddha's timeless teachings. Having a background in the arts and philosophy before being introduced to Buddhism, Gen Mondrub understands from his own experience how the artist's process of creation easily translates into the spiritual practitioner's process of a different sort of creation - the creation of a peaceful, joyful, and most meaningful life.