A terma treasure text of Nuden Dorje. Teaching and commentary on his translation by James Low. Todtmoos, June 2007.Transcribed by Sarah Allen and edited by Barbara Terris. This terma text with commentary is included in Chapter 8 of Simply Being. The Todtmoos transcript has also been incorporated into a book prepared by Robert Jaroslawski and called Zuhause im Spiel der […]
» 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.’
» Read moreWhen things are calm it is easy to disturb them. When things are clear it is easy to dirty them, to make them lose their clarity. On an ordinary level calmness and clarity are very vulnerable states. This is because of the very nature of our existence. From a traditional buddhist point of view the functioning basis of our existence, of how we operate as human beings, is to be caught up in an experience of duality: looking inside we experience ‘ourselves’, and looking outside we experience ‘things’ which are other. But of course, it is not quite as simple as that.
» Read moreTalk delivered by James Low at a Conference on Death and Dying organized by Bristol Chan Group and Western Chan Fellowship, February 2006 Transcribed and edited by Wendy Chozom Download as PDF Excerpts Where we go wrong in this experience of dying is to imagine that things are happening to us rather than accepting everything, both subject and object, as my […]
» Read moreJames Low Transcribed by Jo Féat. Edited by Barbara Terris Translated by James as: Direct introduction on one’s real nature is the first essential point.To decide clearly on this one thing is the second essential point.Remaining with the confidence of liberation is the third essential point. And later as: Direct awakening to how it is.Doubt-free clarity that this is how […]
» Read moreGutenstein Retreat, September 2005 James Low Download PDF Transcribed by Johanna Stoll Edited by Wendy Chozom Excerpts: Rather than the mind being a possession of the self, the self is a construct of the mind. When we don’t realise this, the openness of the mind is ignored by grasping at a product of the mind – the self. ཨ ཨ ཨ At the heart […]
» Read moreExcerpts on anxiety taken from teachings given at Kamalashila during the Autumn Retreat 2005, in the Eifel. Transcribed by Jo Féat (2009), edited by Barbara Terris (2011) German transcript by Petra Niehaus (2012)Italian transcript by Rita Gastaldi (2011) Excerpts …Some time ago I was looking at a little video for children. It was about an elephant who wanted to fly. […]
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