About this episode

Gen Chodor discusses the importance of imagination in personal and spiritual growth, emphasizing the need for a clear vision of one's future self.

In this podcast, Gen Chodor explains that all personal and spiritual growth begins in the imagination: we each hold a vision of who we want to become – less stressed, more confident, more peaceful – and without that vision, change is impossible. Drawing on Eight Steps to Happiness, he describes how just as buildings and inventions first exist in the mind of an architect, our inner qualities and identities also begin as mental blueprints. Although we often change external identities – careers, relationships, locations – in search of happiness, these shifts alone never bring lasting freedom from problems. By vividly imagining and identifying with our highest spiritual potential through meditation, we create a clear inner blueprint that, with practice and mental training, can gradually become our lived reality. Based on the book The New Eight Steps to Happiness by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

People in this episode

Host: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Guest: Gen Chodor

Topics covered

• personal growth
• spiritual growth
• imagination
• meditation
• happiness

Keywords

• personal growth
• spiritual growth
• imagination
• meditation
• happiness
• mental blueprints
• self-identity

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Eight Steps to Happiness, The New Eight Steps to Happiness

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