• Skilfull Meditation with Ani Lhamo

    The Kagyu Lineage is often called the ‘Practice Lineage’.  It offers a huge range of mind training methods.  What are they and why do they exist? What are their various benefits? We will take a look at some methods: prayer, contemplation, spiritual music, the use of musical instruments, dance, and some of the many forms […]

  • Sunday Sessions Q&A with Lama Yeshe Rinpoche

    Kagyu Samye Dzong Johannesburg Temple 43 Floss Street, Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    This is a special opportunity to receive direct guidance from Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche.

  • Four Ways to Change the Mind – Part 1

    Guided Contemplations on The Four Ways to Change the Mind These contemplations focus on the Preciousness of Human Life, emphasising the rarity and potential of a human birth, Death and Impermanence, highlighting the transient nature of all things; the Law of Karma, recognising the inevitable cause and effect of actions; and the Disadvantages of Cyclic […]

  • Dreams and Such Stuff with Dónal Creedon

    Kagyu Samye Dzong Johannesburg Temple 43 Floss Street, Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    According to the Buddhadharma, 'the view', how we see ourselves and the world, is crucial. It is the point where suffering begins and ends.

  • Four Ways to Change the Mind – Part 2

    Kagyu Samye Dzong Johannesburg Temple 43 Floss Street, Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Intro and guided contemplations on karma, cause and effect and the disadvantages of cyclic existence.

  • Introduction to Qigong

    Kagyu Samye Dzong Johannesburg Temple 43 Floss Street, Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    with Wendy Newstadt We are exploring the possibility of offering Qigong classes and invite you to an introductory session with Wendy Newstadt on Saturday, 7 February, from 10:00 to 11:00. This session will provide an overview of the practice and help gauge interest in future classes. Qigong is a holistic healing practice rooted in traditional […]

  • Celebrating Losar with Lama Yeshe Rinpoche

    Kagyu Samye Dzong Johannesburg Temple 43 Floss Street, Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Please join Lama Yeshe Rinpoche at the Kensington Temple for a special Q&A session, offering a valuable opportunity to receive direct guidance from Rinpoche.

  • Meditation Morning

    Kagyu Samye Dzong Johannesburg Temple 43 Floss Street, Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Loving-kindness meditation is a mindfulness practice designed to cultivate compassion, self-love, and universal friendliness by directing well-wishes toward oneself and others.

  • Meditation Morning

    Kagyu Samye Dzong Johannesburg Temple 43 Floss Street, Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    In tonglen practice, we visualise taking in the pain of others with every in-breath and sending out whatever will benefit them on the out-breath. In the process, we become liberated from age- old patterns of selfishness.

  • Refuge and Precepts with Lama Yeshe Rinpoche

    Kagyu Samye Dzong Johannesburg Temple 43 Floss Street, Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    We are delighted that Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche will offer Refuge and Precepts before he flies back to Scotland.