James Low, 23 April 2020 It begins: Mum sends you, age 7, to the market to buy oranges, only oranges, and “don’t buy anything else!” The women with the fruit and vegetable stalls want to sell you what they have, “Look” they say, “what lovely bananas and the grapes, Oh, such lovely grapes – and these pears are so amazing.”
» Read moreJames Low has made recordings of two short guided meditations (April 2020) for releasing stress and integrating stillness and movement. These are designed for people in the caring professions working long hours due to COVID-19 and who only have brief periods to practise. Each lasts 10 minutes. If you like to make use of the recordings then you can extend […]
» Read moreNew Transcript: The evening talk and the weekend teachings in London on “Illusion Delusion and Confusion” for the Shang Shung Institute. “If you awaken to your own mind, in that moment all the tensions release. The negative impulses release and you are able to connect, because it’s there from the beginning. It’s not done by you. None of us are doing by ourselves; we are the blossom, the breath of the Buddha. That’s all. Alive in this form for a while, dissolving and changing. We are not things. We are light and colour and shape and beauty. So, in this way hopefully we continue. ” Uploaded 5/9/23
» Read moreNew Portuguese Translation: Mário César Lins Filho has translated Meditation and psychotherapy, a Public Talk given in Lisbon, 2020. 26 Oct 2022.
» Read moreNew Translation. Özden Atik and Mustafa Mert Çelebi have prepared GEVŞEMEK NİÇİN BU KADAR ZOR? in Turkish. Uploaded 26 April 2023
» Read moreBecause our life is nothing but moments, events, arising and passing, arising and passing. All that we’ve ever done is gone. Our childhood is gone. We can remember it, we can tell stories about it, but it’s gone. Even our breakfast is gone. Everything is gone. If we really see that, then when we tell people about ourselves, about our past, we’re just inviting them to fall asleep with us. We’re saying, ‘I had a lovely dream, let me share it with you. You can fall asleep in my dream for a while and then, because I believe in reciprocity, I’ll fall asleep in yours.’
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