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The Wild Heart Festival, UK. September 2010 Organised by Huw Wyn “I would like to start with the idea of Buddha. Buddha in the Tibetan language is expressed as sang gye. This is made up of two terms: sang meaning ‘to purify’ and gye meaning ‘to increase’. To take that on a very basic level, we’ve all got problems, difficulties, things […]
» Read moreMacclesfield, 16th Jan 2010 James Low “Mindfulness is explored from different perspectives including psychotherapy, theravada and dzogchen. With mindfulness we can become intentionally attentive and careful so we are no longer at the mercy of whatever is happening. From the view of dzogchen we can be in the movement of the world as it changes and remind ourselves to relax back […]
» Read moreA teaching offered by James on the Four Immeasurables at Macclesfield, 27th Jun 2009 “The meaning of the ‘Four Brahmaviharas’, which is found in all schools of buddhism, is expounded here along with the accompanying prayer. We wish that all beings rest in the integration of their natural condition and that the obstacles to this may dissolve. We see the […]
» 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 moreIntegration is a central concept in dzogchen: Sleeping Beauty or Sleeping Buddha? A Public Talk offered by James Low at Todtmoos in Jun 11th 2009 German translation by Robert Jaroslawski Videos of part of the retreat are here The transcript is here Download here “It’s a bit like in the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. After she pricks her finger […]
» Read moreWhen we say we live in a state of absence, it doesn’t mean that we have lost something, but that we are absent from being present in what is here. Retreat at Badowo, 24th April 2009 You can read the Transcript here in English and Portuguese. Download the audio files here
» Read moreJames Low Berlin Teaching Weekend 6-8 Feb. 2009 “Dzogchen offers a radical view of personal identity. How we think of ourselves determines the choices we make and sets up the patterns of our lives. Yet, how we think of ourselves is determined by many complex historical factors. Caught up in a web of thoughts, feelings and sensations, we encounter a world […]
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