The Mother of all the Buddhas. Warsaw, May 2011

Commentary to Gonpo Wangyal’s “Introduction To The Nature Of The Mother Of All The Buddhas” Warsaw, 13 -14 May 2011 English with Polish translation The Polish translation of the Gonpo Wangyal text was given to participant. The audio-recording was prepared by Robbie Terris. Gonpo Wangyal was the 11th lama in the Khordong lineage of CR Lama. Download here

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Cutting free without losing anything. Berlin 2011

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 […]

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So near and yet so far away. Berlin 2011

James 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

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Awake in illusion. Hamburg, 2011

Hamburg Retreat. 18-20 Feb 2011 “Illusion is a very important concept in Tibetan Buddhism.  We see many things and the things that we see appear to be existing in themselves. That quality of existence creates the basis for us entering into a relation with an object.  Some of the objects we like, some of the objects we don’t like.  But […]

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Working with change and impermanence [12]. Macclesfield, 2010

Macclesfield, 27th Nov 2010 James Low “The belief that I have a fixed internal ‘essence of me’ generates my behaviour and believing that there are self-existent things in the world keeps me trapped in reactivity. As we meditate, and thoughts feeling and sensations arise and pass, we experience that change is the basis of our existence. If we can see […]

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Easy does it! Sussex, 2010

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 […]

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Four foundations of mindfulness. [11]. Macclesfield, 2010

Macclesfield, 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 […]

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