{"id":4058,"date":"2016-02-03T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/?page_id=4058"},"modified":"2016-02-24T05:22:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T05:22:08","slug":"the-four-immeasurables-alan-muller-sun-21-feb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/courses\/archives\/the-four-immeasurables-alan-muller-sun-21-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Immeasurables &#8211; Alan Muller &#8211; Sun 21 Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/files\/2016\/02\/4-Immeasurables.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4060\" src=\"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/files\/2016\/02\/4-Immeasurables-300x212.png\" alt=\"4-Immeasurables\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Sunday 21 February 10:30-4:00pm<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">(Registration from 10:00am) <\/span><\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">COST: R100 (Public) R80 (Members) + Dana<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">(Contact office if reduced rates are required for pensioners and students)<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Bring and Share Vegetarian Lunch<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Tibetan Buddhism &#8211; The Four Immeasurables<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Exploring the Four Qualities of Love: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Living the teachings of the Buddha, we will look at ways to develop the four immeasurables (four qualities of love), of loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity within ourselves.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">&#8220;Try to live in a way that encourages deep happiness in yourself and others. &#8216;I vow to bring joy to one person in the morning and to help relieve the suffering of one person in the afternoon.&#8217; This is the art of creating happiness.&#8221; Thich Nhat Hanh<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche says: <\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">&#8220;Compassion and loving-kindness are essential to our happiness and spiritual development. The problems facing our friends and families as well as those affecting our environment and the world at large can all be helped by these qualities&#8221;. <\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><div class=\"woo-fbshare left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/courses\/archives\/the-four-immeasurables-alan-muller-sun-21-feb\/\" data-width=\"100\" data-type=\"button\"><\/div><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"woo-fblike none\">\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/courses\/archives\/the-four-immeasurables-alan-muller-sun-21-feb\/&#038;layout=button_count&#038;show_faces=false&#038;width=450&#038;action=like&#038;colorscheme=light&#038;font=arial&#038;locale=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:auto; height:25px;\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>May All beings have Happiness and\u00a0Create the Causes of Happiness<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>May they be Free from Suffering and from Creating the Causes of Suffering<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>May they never be without that Sacred\u00a0Joy which has No Suffering<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>May they Attain Universal, Impartial Compassion, beyond worldly bias towards <\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Friends or Enemies<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 21 February 10:30-4:00pm (Registration from 10:00am) COST: R100 (Public) R80 (Members) + Dana (Contact office if reduced rates are required for pensioners and students) Bring and Share Vegetarian Lunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":4261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4058","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4058\/revisions\/4094"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}