Public Talk 7 June 2018 Freiburg, Germany Staying Sane in an Insane World Buddhist teaching emphasises the impermanence of all phenomena. Our experience moment by moment is the ever-changing patterning of the happenstance of emergence. However our sense of self requires us to feel a degree of reliability and predictability in the patterning of our existence. Our ego self fears […]
» Read moreJames Low The radiance of emptiness: The mystery of nonduality, or, How everything comes out of nothing and yet there is always more than nothing available. 18th Apr 2018 Cologne, Germany English and German “So, tonight we are going to have an impossible task. Why is this an impossible task? Because we are going to look at emptiness, which is […]
» Read morePublic Talk 18 April 2018, Koeln, Germany No one to gain, no one to blame. Ignorance and enlightenment, how does this happen ? Did we get lost by ourselves? Do we have to make ourselves enlightened? We will make a brief exploration of this strange situation that we find ourselves in. German and English This was followed by the Eifel Spring […]
» Read moreJames Low 26th and 27th Jan 2018 Warsaw Topic: Depth and light: exploring the ungraspable clarity of our mind. Friday was a public talk in Warsaw University. Saturday was a day of teaching. Warsaw, 2018 Organised by Konrad Świtała Translating by Joanna (Asia) Raniszewska-Rain Polish and English Download here. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9k5w0tQYGQ[/embedyt]
» Read moreWho am I? Buddhist approaches to the mystery of “me” being “me”. James Low Shang Shung Institute, London Public Talk. 18th January 2018 “The diverse buddhist lineages are united in seeing that suffering arises from us ignoring what is, and attaching to what is not. Once we attach to a sense of being a separate self – an individual with our own […]
» Read moreJames Low Public Talk, Berlin, Bodhicharya Deutschland e.V., 25 Oct 2017 The talk described how our struggle for identity often leads to conflict, whereas awakening to our intrinsic Buddha nature brings healing and peace. English and German Also on Vimeo
» Read moreJames Low Public Talk: The Basis for Awakening. Tibethaus, Frankfurt,Germany. 5 October 2017 Awakening, or enlightenment, is often regarded as being almost unattainable. The dzogchen view, however, points to the ever-present basis of enlightenment and offers us the means to access it directly Download here German and English Organised by Martin Brüger
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