Solitude and how to make use of it. Zoom, May 2020
New translation. Already translated into Spanish by Caroline Van Kilsdonk. Now translated into Turkish by Mustafa Mert Çelebi. Uploaded 15 Dec 2020
» Read moreNew translation. Already translated into Spanish by Caroline Van Kilsdonk. Now translated into Turkish by Mustafa Mert Çelebi. Uploaded 15 Dec 2020
» Read moreFacing the mystery of the face. Face to Face Facing your face, receiving infinity, You are ceaselessly revealing As each moment of revelation unravels effortlessly Receiving this I am slipped free of the fetter of agency And find myself within unbounded revelation: You and I safely beyond our habitual assimilation into Concepts we have about each other Too vast and […]
» Read moreWritten in the hope that it may to of interest and help to all of us who work on various dharma projects.
» Read moreTalk by James Low, “Emptiness, Equanimity and Kindness” April 2020. When many people are suffering our hearts go out to them and we wish them well. This quality of kindness is vital to extend our connectivity beyond the people of our personal concern. However from the buddhist point of view the power of kindness is greatly increased by merging it with the wisdom of emptiness.
» Read moreJames 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
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