{"id":5013,"date":"2018-12-02T19:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/?page_id=5013"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:30:37","slug":"the-search-for-security-and-the-way-of-meditation-donal-creedon-sun-9-dec-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/courses\/archives\/the-search-for-security-and-the-way-of-meditation-donal-creedon-sun-9-dec-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Search for Security and the Way of Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Donal Creedon<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 24px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">Sunday 9 December 2018<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 24px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">10:00 am to 4:00 pm<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 24px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\"><strong>Cost:<\/strong> R300 (please do not let the inability to pay prevent you from attending. Contact the office for concessions or work exchange). <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 24px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">Dana for the teacher would be appreciated.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #333333;line-height: 24px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;cursor: text;float: none;background-color: transparent\">Bring and Share Vegetarian Lunch<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;line-height: 24px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">Book for this retreat by emailing johannesburg@kagyu.org.za.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/files\/2017\/11\/Copy-of-Donal-Creedon2-e1511246260896.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>D\u00f3nal will explore the principal issue of security and ask if there is a way of living peacefully in a very insecure world. D\u00f3nal says \u201cThe way of meditation, among other things, is a means to inquire into the fundamental questions of living with a view to bringing about the flowering of innate goodness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>D\u00f3nal will also be leading retreats at Tara Rokpa Centre from the 14th of December &#8211; there is still space available. <a href=\"http:\/\/tararokpacentre.co.za\/event\/sutra-of-life-with-donal-creedon\/\">The Sutra of Life<\/a> has either 1 week or 2 week options, while <a href=\"http:\/\/tararokpacentre.co.za\/event\/outer-world-inner-world\/\">Outer World, Inner World<\/a> from 28 Dec to 2 Jan, is a more secular based programme.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00f3nal Creedon is a Buddhist meditation teacher with many years\u2019 experience, loved and deeply appreciated for his warmth, openness and sincerity. He studied and practiced with Buddhist masters of the Kagyu practice lineage in Europe as well as in India and Nepal. This involved many years of intense retreat.<br \/>\nD\u00f3nal also spent a number of years at the Krishnamurti Centre in Varanasi as resident Buddhist scholar. Thus the radical inquiry of Krishnamurti informs his approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donal Creedon Sunday 9 December 2018 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Cost: R300 (please do not let the inability to pay prevent you from attending. 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