Opening to the Open. Audio. Retreat. Berghof, July 2026

▪ 01 Introduction – The Theravada Approach ▪ 02 The Mahayana Path – Beginning with Emptiness ▪ 03 Killing and War ▪ 04 With Your Mind as It Is ▪ 05 In the Flow of Life ▪ 06 About the Format of the Retreat

▪ 01 Refuge ▪ 02 Karma, Ethics, Impermanence ▪ 03 What Will Endure ▪ 04 Question – The Role of Memories: My Afghanistan ▪ 05 From Fixity to Movement ▪ 06 The Buddha’s Pure and Perfect Refuge ▪ 07 The Absence of Inherent Existence ▪ 08 Polyphony, Transformation and Limitations ▪ 09 Concepts and Freshness ▪ 10 Introduction to the Heart Sutra ▪ 11 The Heart Sutra ▪ 12 Discussion – Continuity and Identity ▪ 13 Looking for Awareness – Dependent Origination ▪ 14 Question – Reciprocal Formulation Not Explicit

▪ 01 Everyone Is Precious – Promoting Wellbeing ▪ 02 Transformational Change, Climate ▪ 03 Free Association ▪ 04 Relative Truth, Mental Dullness ▪ 05 Pure Relative Truth ▪ 06 The Obscuration of Knowledge ▪ 07 Patrul Rinpoche – Text on the Two Truths ▪ 08 Daniel’s Book – Try Something ▪ 09 Money, Participation, Support ▪ 10 Emptiness as Potential ▪ 11 The Eight Consciousnesses ▪ 12 Question – Writing a Book Out of the Ground ▪ 13 The Field of Experience Emerges ▪ 14 Discussion – Your Role in Solidifying the World ▪ 15 Question – An Action Arising From Pure Awareness ▪ 16 Will You Ever Get Enlightened? ▪ 17 Illusion and Delusion

▪ 01 The View as a Working Hypothesis ▪ 02 Emptiness and the Waves of Experience ▪ 03 Staying with the Process of Becoming ▪ 04 Enquiry, Stabilisation, Conceptualisation ▪ 05 One Source, Many Vessels ▪ 06 Formations, Potential, Openness ▪ 07 Question – How Self-Contraction Arises ▪ 08 Guru Yoga ▪ 09 Advice on Guru Yoga Practice ▪ 10 The Three Kayas ▪ 11 Asking, Invitation, All Welcome ▪ 12 Always Good – The How-Ness of the Moment ▪ 13 Guru Yoga with Visualisation ▪ 14 Practicing with the Senses Open ▪ 15 Structures of Limitation, Addiction

▪ 01 Guru Yoga – Becoming Available ▪ 02 The Five Questions About the Mind ▪ 03 Question – How to Hold a Question About the Mind ▪ 04 Is My Mind Big or Small? ▪ 05 Does the Mind Come From Somewhere? ▪ 06 Where Is the Mind Present? ▪ 07 Does the Mind Go Anywhere? ▪ 08 Question – Sleepiness and the Mind ▪ 09 Question – Knowing the Answers ▪ 10 Comment – Breath and Heart, Creating Space ▪ 11 So Many Methods ▪ 12 Comment – Colour and Shape; Question – Eyes Open ▪ 13 Question – Creator and Doer of the Method ▪ 14 Availability ▪ 15 Love Your Mother ▪ 16 Question – Taking Action, Not Just Meditating ▪ 17 Text – The Evocation of Samantabhadra ▪ 18 By This Evocation May All Beings Awaken ▪ 19 How the Ground Is ▪ 20 Question – Flowers, Weeds, Dirt ▪ 21 Question – Judge, Criminal and the Dharma Path ▪ 22 A Question Too Far ▪ 23 Text – The Five Qualities of the Source

▪ 01 Thinking About Our Motivation ▪ 02 Always Exactly Here Now ▪ 03 Death, Illness and Pain ▪ 04 The Non-Dual Quality of Knowingness ▪ 05 Text – Awareness as This Suchness Is Buddhahood ▪ 06 Question – Pure Awareness ▪ 07 Reversing Creation – I Am James, I Am I ▪ 08 Question – How Come the Open Field Can Self-Contract? ▪ 09 Starting with Yourself as You Are ▪ 10 Text – Forgetful of the Source, You Invent ▪ 11 The Qualities of Awareness of the Ground ▪ 12 Awareness Intrinsically Present – Co-Emergence ▪ 13 The Point of Co-Emergence ▪ 14 Text – Untouched by Biased Judgements ▪ 15 Spontaneous Appearance Free of Faults ▪ 16 Intrinsic Awareness – Fresh, Unchanging ▪ 17 Coming to Conclusions – The World Is Not Solid

▪ 01 Money and Power ▪ 02 Question – Continuity of Teachings Without Hierarchy ▪ 03 Question – Organisations Making Decisions ▪ 04 Text – Free of Fear and Panic ▪ 05 No Attachment to Pleasures of the Senses ▪ 06 Free of Concepts ▪ 07 The Right Amount of Dharma ▪ 08 Text – Free of Material Form ▪ 09 Free of the Five Poisons ▪ 10 The Radiance of Awareness ▪ 11 Entering into the Teaching ▪ 12 Text – The Arising of Sentient Beings ▪ 13 James Shares a Poem ▪ 14 Heart Advice Following the Evening Puja

▪ 01 The View of Dzogchen ▪ 02 Teachers – Diverse Ways of Being ▪ 03 Meditation – Activity, Result ▪ 04 Text – In the Infinity of Great Illumination ▪ 05 Question – About Samantabhadri ▪ 06 A Participatory Action Outside ▪ 07 Text – Inconceivable Emanations ▪ 08 Two Modes Inseparable ▪ 09 Moving with the Rhythm of the Dharma ▪ 10 For You, for the Other ▪ 11 Keeping Connection