Members of the CTII attended a weekend workshop called “Joy Of Living” featuring the teachings of Tibetan meditation master Mingyur Rinpoche. It was held at the Michael Oak Waldorf School in preparation for the visit to South Africa by Mingyur between August 27 and September 10 2025.
Taught by Nepal-/Costa Rica-based George Hughes of Tergar, the global community supporting the teachings, the workshop was a great success. George, (with video recordings from Rinpoche) focused on awareness in a very practical manner.
The teaching is also called the “Anywhere Anytime Meditation Path”. It is a simple approach that makes no assumptions regarding technique, philosophy or even spiritual awareness. Even “secular” people can benefit and it brought no religious jargon to the practice.
Additionally, a stunning film “Wandering … But Not Lost” (2021) was shown last week at Cape Town’s Labia cinema. This showing was followed by a short “in-cinema” meditation, immediately demonstrating the “anytime anywhere” ethos of the teaching.
“Wandering … But Not Lost” retraced the 4 and a half year “wandering” meditation that Mingyur undertook in northern India and Nepal in 2011. In the adventure, he gave up all his comforts, “disappeared”, and lived in trust, in caves, on the street, amongst the homeless and in nature.
It is an intimate story against the backdrop of India’s teeming streets and Nepal’s unspeakably majestic Himalayas, a 21-century adventure of the soul amongst many of the worlds oldest civilizations and religious cultures including Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism.
This time of cinematic storytelling and practical spiritual teaching has been a welcome start to 2025, which promises to be challenging to everyone dedicated to human betterment and inter-connection.
We at the CTII are grateful for our newfound exposure to this veritable, valuable and living faith tradition.
