Being Right Here: A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje entitled the Mirror of Clear Meaning
James Low
Being Right Here provides a very clear authentic account of the view and essential meditation of dzogchen, the practice of non-dual experience. The presentation is in the Men Ngag style, a personal instruction distilling the author’s own realisation, revealing the lived experience of the terton Nuden Dorje Drophan Lingpa in a manner both beautiful and profoundly meaningful… It consists of short verses which, with pithy clarity, show how the various aspects of dzogchen fit together. The text provides both an authentic account of the practice and instruction in how to apply it.
The book Being Right Here is based on teachings James gave 1998 at Pfauenhof when CR Lama was also there.
Giving this commentary was the last time I taught in Rinpoche’s presence and rereading it brings back the facilitating warmth and spaciousness of his empowering and liberating display. The teacher is the site of integration; through the practice of the text the nature of life is revealed through integration with the living presence of the teacher. The teacher is of course not an entity, but a relational field.
Please note: The book, The Mirror of Clear Meaning, is a later translation by James Low of the same Nuden Dorje text and incorporates teachings James gave in Seville Spain in February 2019.
English
Being Right Here: A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje Entitled the Mirror of Clear Meaning. James Low. (Snow Lion Publications, 2014) ISBN 1559392088
Chinese
Translated by Victoria Ying Jin (High Top Publishing LLC, USA, 2026). Pbk. ISBN: 978-1-56703-0440
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Translated and transculturally curated by Victoria Ying Jin (High Top Publishing LLC, USA, 2026)
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French
Le Miroir au Sens Limpide: trésor du dzogchen. Translated into French by Nathalie Koralnik [Éditions Almora, 2009]. ISBN: 9782351180433 2351180437
German
Hier und Jetz Sein: ein Kommentar zu dem Dzogchen-Schatz-Text “Don Sal Melong”, “Der Spiegel der Klaren Bedeutung. (edition khording, Wandel Verlag, 2018) ISBN 978 3942380256
Italian
Esserci: un commento a “Lo specchio del chiaro significato”. (Casa Editrice Astrolabio – Ubaldini Editore, 2005) ISBN 9788834014585
Polish
Portuguese
Estando bem aqui. Translated by João Vale Neto. (Meditando Junto, 2021) ISBN 978-65-994112-0-5 [out of print 2025]
Russian
Быть прямо здесь. Перевод на русский язык: Мария Шрамко, Россия. Being Right Here. Translated into Russian by Maria Shramko Jan 2024. Download free PDF file.
Spanish
El espejo de revelación luminosa. The verses in the book Being Right Here have been translated into Spanish by Juan Bautista García Lázaro in 2019. Download.