{"id":6145,"date":"2025-08-03T19:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=6145"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:15:37","slug":"diamond-mind-meditation-course","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/event\/diamond-mind-meditation-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Mind &#8211; Meditation Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"172\"><strong data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"103\">Three-Week Introduction to Meditation Course<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"172\">Based on <em data-start=\"115\" data-end=\"157\">Diamond Mind: A Psychology of Meditation<\/em> by Rob Nairn<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"759\">In this practical, accessible course, you\u2019ll learn how to work gently and skilfully with your own mind. Drawing on Rob Nairn\u2019s <em data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"315\">Diamond Mind<\/em>, we explore how anxiety, desire, and anger cloud our natural clarity, and how simple meditation practices can help dissolve these obscurations. Over three weeks, you will be guided step-by-step to recognise unhelpful mental patterns, understand their origins, and cultivate a calm, spacious awareness. As the mind settles, its innate wisdom and brilliance can shine through \u2014 bringing greater clarity, compassion, and joy into everyday life.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"759\">&#8220;Meditation is inherently simple. We do not need to import anything new into the mind. There are no complex, intellectual mechanisms involved. We don&#8217;t have to understand profound philosophical systems. What is necessary is to learn the very basic simplicity of being &#8211; and in this way, discover the diamond mind.&#8221; Rob Nairn, Diamond Mind<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"759\">Dates &amp; Time: <strong>Sundays<\/strong> <strong>7, 14<\/strong> and <strong>Saturday 20<\/strong> September<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"759\">10:30 AM &#8211; 12:00 PM<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"759\">Cost:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"759\">No cost, donations welcome to the centre and for the facilitator.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"759\">Facilitator:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"759\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4981\" src=\"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/files\/2012\/03\/DSC_3836-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Alan Muller took refuge in 1997 with Akong Rinpoche. In 2003, he completed a one-year closed retreat under the guidance of Lama Yeshe Rinpoche at Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland. During this period, he took novice monk vows. Alan remained a novice monk for six years and now presents courses and retreats as a layperson.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"759\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation is inherently simple. We do not need to import anything new into the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6148,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[24,49,38,13],"tribe_events_cat":[10,11],"class_list":["post-6145","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-buddhism","tag-course","tag-ksdj-temple","tag-meditation","tribe_events_cat-buddhism","tribe_events_cat-meditation","cat_buddhism","cat_meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6145\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}