James gave a day’s teaching on a text by Maitripa, called A Brief Presentation of Mahamudra 27 Oct 2012. The text is chapter 12 in Simply Being. It was provided to participants. English and German Audio edited Robbie Terris. Download the audio files here
» Read morePublic Talk at Karma Thegchen Chö Ling, Bremen 26 October 2012 English and German Total play time: 02:02:06 Exploring the similarities and differences between Buddhist ideas about healing and Western ideas about psychotherapy. Download here
» Read moreMy own teacher said to me again and again, “Nothing is special. It’s all just the same.” And if one gets the point of this, one actually realizes it as a living practice. And then compassion towards all sentient beings is maintained by exactly not acting in a way that pays attention to what they identify as the specific causes […]
» Read moreJames Low Lahr, Germany4th December, 2009Transcribed by Sarah AllenUnedited ExcerptsTantric practice involves attending to beauty as beauty calms the heart. If one is held by beauty one has no need to make sense of it. That is to say, the presence of beauty allows us to move from the phallic nailing of the world, the penetrating of the world, the […]
» Read morePadmasambhava and Healing Retreat, Berlin, 11-12 May 1996 James Low Download the PDF Transcribed by Liz Fox Unedited Excerpts “…Padmasambhava goes through Tibet and he finds demons and he blasts them away. Everywhere in Tibet he puts everything under his power. He’s the tough guy, a real Rambo man! But we have to remember his name is Padmasambhava. “Sambhava” means […]
» Read moreNew Translation: This has been retranslated into Turkish by Mustafa Mert Çelebi. Uploaded 17 02 2022
» Read moreI want to stay with this practice of shiné and link it, through tantra, into the basic examination of the nature of mind. In shiné practice the focus is on separation, so essentially in this practice we are separating out an observing, focusing, aware position of the self from an involved enmeshed position of the self. James Low Download the […]
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