Preface to Simply Being, 3rd edition.
Dzogchen is an approach to spiritual practice and daily life which is concerned with maintaining a sense of relaxed openness and happy attentive interest in all that is going on.
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Dzogchen is an approach to spiritual practice and daily life which is concerned with maintaining a sense of relaxed openness and happy attentive interest in all that is going on.
» 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 moreThis text by Nuden Dorje Drophan Lingpa is the key text in the book Being Right Here by James Low. It is sometimes referred to by its Tibetan name, “Donsal Melong”
» Read moreThe COVID-19 virus is interrupting all our lives in in the most unexpected ways. Death, however, is the biggest interrupter. This little poem begins: Now your life is interrupted Now your plans are not fulfilled Now you see life is no possession Now you see life happens as it will English original German by Frank Sandschulte and Yvonne Moss German […]
» 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.”
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