Finding freedom in the source Retreat 8-10 June 2018 Todtmoos, Germany The familiar horizon established by our sense of self affords us a very limited sense of our own potential. Through awakening to the ground of being, the spacious awareness which pervades every aspect of our life, we can gain depth and light, freedom and easy communication with all […]
» Read morePublic Talk 7 June 2018 Freiburg, Germany Staying Sane in an Insane World Buddhist teaching emphasises the impermanence of all phenomena. Our experience moment by moment is the ever-changing patterning of the happenstance of emergence. However our sense of self requires us to feel a degree of reliability and predictability in the patterning of our existence. Our ego self fears […]
» Read moreWatkins Bookshop in London has posted a short video of James talking there on April 26 2018.
» Read moreSeville, 28th April – 1st May 2018-06-08 A teaching retreat based on Gonpo Wangyal’s brief dzogchen text “Uncovering the presence of the mother of all the buddhas” James Low The practice of dzogchen, according to a short terma text by Gonpo Wangyal. The text is available here in Tibetan and English and has also been translated into various languages. […]
» Read moreJames Low. 19-22 April 2018. Kamalashilashila Institute, the Eifel, Germany. James begins by speaking about what the experience is like to arrive somewhere, and who it is who arrives. This leads into a short meditation practice. The focus of the weekend is on using the dzogchen view to awaken to the inseparability of awareness and the openness of the ground. […]
» Read moreJames Low 26th and 27th Jan 2018 Warsaw Topic: Depth and light: exploring the ungraspable clarity of our mind. Friday was a public talk in Warsaw University. Saturday was a day of teaching. Warsaw, 2018 Organised by Konrad Świtała Translating by Joanna (Asia) Raniszewska-Rain Polish and English Download here. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9k5w0tQYGQ[/embedyt]
» Read moreWho am I? Buddhist approaches to the mystery of “me” being “me”. James Low Shang Shung Institute, London Public Talk. 18th January 2018 “The diverse buddhist lineages are united in seeing that suffering arises from us ignoring what is, and attaching to what is not. Once we attach to a sense of being a separate self – an individual with our own […]
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