We are all familiar with the hopes and fears inseparable from romantic love. However the Buddhist view of love is expressed as “May all beings be happy and have the cause of happiness.” This aspiration is inclusive and infinite. It is offered equally to all beings without reference to the qualities we perceive in them. To achieve this warm equanimity […]
» Read moreThree statements of Garab Dorje. Video of Zoom July 2020. This is James’s ‘Zoom’ teaching on The Three Statements of Garab Dorje from July 4th- 5th, 2020. The subject of the teaching was the commentary by Patrul Rinpoche on ‘The Three Statements’ by Garab Dorje. Garab Dorje was the first human teacher of Dzogchen. Thank you to all those involved […]
» Read moreThese three texts, Anxiety and Doubt, On Anxiety, and Anxiety Awareness Ease, support and complement each other. All beings in samsara have their functional root in ignorance and their intrinsic root in unborn awareness. Ignorance is inseparable from anxiety although ignorance generates our ego-self which is endlessly pretending to be confident and free of anxiety. Through understanding anxiety as it […]
» Read more… but it did. And now it is restored. The transcript of The nature of self in Tibetan Buddhism. Freiburg, 2015
» Read moreDissolving obstacles to living the dzogchen view. Olaf now has the videos ready from the retreat in Berlin, 21-24 Nov 2019. With German translation by Katia LaVoix. You can watch all 14 videos on Vimeo and Youtube.
» Read moreNew translation: Translated into Italian by Ilaria Corti and Francesca Fazzio. Uploaded 16 06 2021
» Read moreTranslated by James Low The Cuckoo’s Cry Heralding the Good Fortune of Glorious Presence. Rig Pa’i Khu Byug. By Vairocana. The title is translated by others in many different terms including “The Song of the cuckoo” and “The Cuckoo’s cry of awareness”. As the cuckoo’s cry is the harbinger of spring so the six verses of the Cuckoo’s Cry introduce the […]
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