James Low Transcribed by Daniel BeierstettelEdited by Barbara Terris Evening Public Talk in Mannheim, 20th November 2009 Excerpts …In Tibetan buddhism there are many styles of practice and many different lineages. However, the main point for us, in the West, when we do practice, is both what kind of intention does it develop in us, and what kind of understanding […]
» Read moreJames Low Integration in dzogchen: Sleeping Beauty or Sleeping Buddha. Public talk Freiburg, Germany. 11th June 2009 Transcribed by Angelina McMillan. Edited by Barbara Terris English. Download the PDF German. Download the PDF Excerpts … It’s a bit like in the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. After she pricks her finger on her birthday, she falls into a deep sleep. […]
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» 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. James Low Download the Transcript in English Download the Transcript in Portuguese Badow, Poland, April 2009 Transcribed by Joanna Janiszewska-Rain Edited by James Low Extracts …I would imagine that for […]
» Read more“What does it mean for me to be me? What is our real identity? Is our identity just what we take it to be – the narratives that we say about ourself – or is identity perhaps something different?
From the point of view of dzogchen, there are many ways to see the constructed way in which we create fantasies of identity about who we are. We may occupy them for some time, but then it becomes impossible to occupy them any more because the present becomes the past.
The present is always becoming the past, so what shall we rely on? This is the central question in dzogchen because if we rely on something unreliable we feel betrayed and we do not feel supported.”
» Read moreJames Low Download the Public Talk Drzewo Życia Centre, Szczecin, Poland 6th May 2009 Translated and transcribed by Bartek Czajkowski Edited by Sarah Allen and James Low Extracts: … Dzogchen begins exactly where we are and doesn’t suggest that we should go somewhere else or do anything different. Rather we are invited to rest in a relaxed presence open to […]
» Read moreJames Low “Brief notes on refuge and bodhicitta” are taken from teachings given at the Drzewo Życia Centre, Szczecin, Poland, 7-8 May 2009 Translated and transcribed by Bartek Czajkowski Edited by Sarah Allen and James Low Read the transcript in English in German by Petra Niehaus in German by Vera Neuruth in Polish Extract In buddhism our practice begins with […]
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