Macclesfield, UK. February 26th, 2005 Most of us have a lot of worries and anxiety in our lives. I will explain the traditional Nyingmapa understanding of the nature of anxiety, the structures underpinning its development, and show how meditation can help us cut through the root of that development. Transcribed by Kevin Lawrence Edited by Wendy Chozom Excerpts Anxiety is not […]
» Read moreMy own teacher said to me again and again, “Nothing is special. It’s all just the same.” And if one gets the point of this, one actually realizes it as a living practice. And then compassion towards all sentient beings is maintained by exactly not acting in a way that pays attention to what they identify as the specific causes […]
» Read moreJames Low Lahr, Germany4th December, 2009Transcribed by Sarah AllenUnedited ExcerptsTantric practice involves attending to beauty as beauty calms the heart. If one is held by beauty one has no need to make sense of it. That is to say, the presence of beauty allows us to move from the phallic nailing of the world, the penetrating of the world, the […]
» Read morePadmasambhava and Healing Retreat, Berlin, 11-12 May 1996 James Low Download the PDF Transcribed by Liz Fox Unedited Excerpts “…Padmasambhava goes through Tibet and he finds demons and he blasts them away. Everywhere in Tibet he puts everything under his power. He’s the tough guy, a real Rambo man! But we have to remember his name is Padmasambhava. “Sambhava” means […]
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» Read moreI want to stay with this practice of shiné and link it, through tantra, into the basic examination of the nature of mind. In shiné practice the focus is on separation, so essentially in this practice we are separating out an observing, focusing, aware position of the self from an involved enmeshed position of the self. James Low Download the […]
» Read moreWe will look at the nature of the mind, an idea which belongs primarily within Buddhist yogacara philosophy. I want to first set out two basic positions about looking into our experience of being alive in the world, and then relate that to the methods of meditation. James Low Download PDF Karma Thegchen Chö Ling, Bremen, Germany 17-18 June 1995 […]
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