These Transcripts are organised in date order with the most recently uploaded ones first. All the transcripts on the website have been ‘edited’, mostly by Barbara Terris, some by James Low and also by others.
James Low Download PDF Bremen, Germany 29 January 1994 Transcribed by Liz Fox Unedited Excerpts “Our topic is psychotherapy and buddhism so I will start by saying something about the Buddhist understanding of the mind’s mental processes, and then reflect on that in relation to psychosis, anxiety and depression. After that we can look at whether there is any contribution […]
» Read moreWILD HEART GATHERING, EAST SUSSEX, UK. SEPTEMBER 2010 James Low Download the PDF Übersetzt von Kurt Rabitsch Download Audio Textauszüge: …Wir sind nicht der Inhalt unseres Geistes und trotzdem sind wir untrennbar vom Inhalt unseres Geistes. Der Inhalt unseres Geistes ist Erleben; er ist nicht Selbst-Definition; er ist nicht Essenz. Deshalb, wenn du schlechte Zeiten hast, definieren diese schlechten Zeiten […]
» Read moreWild heart Gathering, East Sussex, UK. September 2010 James Low Transcribed and edited by Sarah Allen Read the the transcript in English Read the transcript in German. Read the transcript in Portuguese. Read the transcript in Spanish. You can also listen to a recording of this talk at the audio link Extracts We are not the content of our mind and […]
» Read moreJames Low Amorebieta, Spain. 18-20 June, 2010Transcribed by Deniz CsernoklavekEdited by James Low and Barbara Terris Excerpts …In Tibet it was said that dzogchen existed before buddhism arrived. It was there before the bön religion too. That is to say, it is not an invented system, but it is something that was, is, and always will be, and that people […]
» Read moreVortrag in der Cambridge Buddhist Society. UK, 11 März 2010 James Low Download the PDF Übersetzung von Daniel Beierstettel Inhalt Zur Bedeutung des Wortes Sangs-rGye (Tib. für Buddha) 1 Die Sicht des Hinayana. 2 Die Sicht des Mahayana. 5 Die Sicht des Tantra. 6 Die Sicht des Dzogchen. 8 Sangs-rGye im Dzogchen. 9 Ein Zauberberg, Sulfatkristalle und Zuckerwatte. 10 Menschen ernst zu […]
» Read moreThe meaning of the Tibetan word for ‘Buddha’, Sangye (Sangs-rGyas). James Low Talk given for the Cambridge Buddhist Society, UK. 11 March 2010 Download the Transcript of the Talk Transcribed by Jo Féat Edited by Barbara Terris and James Low Excerpts from the Talk …The end of therapy is marked by the patient, having been freed from the transference, now […]
» 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.”
