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Transcribed by Sue Scott and Barbara Littler Edited by Wendy Chozom Click to read or download the PDF This teaching retreat can also be listened to on Audio. “…The body is a dynamic site of participation in the environment which is, itself, a dynamic unfolding.” “Time is not a possession that we own but we ourselves are always in the very […]
» Read more“Meditation can give a fresh outlook which promotes creativity. We will explore the dzogchen view that everything we experience is, in fact, the creativity of the mind.
Buddhism would say that ethics is the basis for our experience and that due to causes and conditions we inhabit a particular vision, a mental construct created from a configuration of many factors. Meditation brings the spaciousness and flexibility needed to respond easily in interaction with the world.”
» Read moreJames Low Emerson College, East Sussex, UK. July 3-5 2015 This annual camping retreat in the grounds of Emerson College in East Sussex is organised by Huw Wyn. “The dzogchen view and practice is a beautiful and effective method to free ourselves and others from anxiety, alienation and confusion. Focussing on the actuality which is always present, although often unattended to […]
» Read moreMacclesfield, 21-22 Feb 2015 James Low “The world impacts us and influences us as it flows into us through our sense organs and we influence the world by being part of it, like a stream within a bigger river. We will explore how observing yourself as you are, being kind to yourself and letting yourself reveal yourself is the way to […]
» Read more29-30 Nov 2014, Bristol, UK Finding the spacious peace present in every moment of movement “Meditation is a means of awakening to the basic space of awareness within which all experience occurs. Through this we can develop wisdom and compassion.” Recorded by John Chettoe and edited by his son. Download here
» Read moreJames Low Emerson College, East Sussex, UK. July 4-6th 2014 This annual camping retreat in the grounds of Emerson College in East Sussex is organised by Huw Wyn. James begins by saying that, “Tomorrow we will start looking at the Heart Sutra, one of the Buddha’s first teachings on emptiness or the natural openness of all phenomena, and then we will […]
» Read moreMacclesfield, 1-2 Feb 2014 James Low “We can observe how using effort to try to stabilise that which is inherently unstable is exhausting and ineffective. So, giving up on that, how do we make the appropriate shifts between agency – the assertion of energy, and plasticity – and allowing ourselves to be moulded by circumstances? By relaxing into our potential it […]
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