JAMES LOW Retreat, BERLIN, 6TH-8th MAY 2011 James begins by saying that “This weekend we are going to look at emptiness in relation to awareness, and hopefully gain some sense of the illusory nature of existence, thereby giving us more ease in the world.” The pre-retreat publicity added that he would be looking at “…chöd practice and the dzogchen view of […]
» Read moreJames Low Public Talk, Berlin, 6th May 2011 The theme is how illusive happiness is and how practice can help relax the yearning for something which is essentially ungraspable. German and English You can read the transcription here Download here
» Read moreOpen, empty, different Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
» Read moreGonpo Wangyal’s Dzogchen James taught using the text by Gonpo Wangyal translated as Introduction to the nature of the mother of all the buddhas. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
» Read moreIn the course of this retreat, James taught from the text “Mi Tag Gyud Kul” – Encouragement of Impermanence – written by Rigdzin Godem. You can read more about this prayer here. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
» Read moreJames taught on Patrul Rinpoche’s commentary on Garab Dorje’s ‘Essential point in three statements’. He continued teaching on this commentary in Todtmoos in October 2010. Patrul Rinpoche’s commentary is Chapter 11 in Simply being: texts in the dzogchen tradition German translation by Robert Jaroslawski Download here. Videos of part of the retreat are available here.
» Read moreStillness and Movement Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
» Read more