James Low, April 2026 writes: The traditional structure of Buddhist teachings is that each level or vehicle has its own View, Meditation, Activity and Result. Over the years I have focused on making the various views and meditations as clear as possible and you can access these through my many audio and video recordings, books and transcripts.
I feel that our retreats now need to have increasing emphasis on your activity and proactive learning.
We all have a lot of life experience and so how can we mobilise this experience to become an ally on our path instead of an obstacle? Rather than relying on our habitual assumptions and conclusions, our practice is to investigate how our subjectivity arises in different situations. We aim to locate the ground (or basis) for our subjective thoughts, feelings and actions in our simple presence within the ever-open here and now.
I will be teaching in the mornings. In the afternoons there will be small group activities led by experienced members of our sangha. They will offer a range of activities and I am encouraging you all to try them out so that you can experience what you can make use of (or not) at each moment in time. The key point is for you to observe what arises for you as you engage with each activity in your ever-changing environment.
The aim in dzogchen is to see the self-vanishing of each moment. We do this by ripening our presence without engaging in dualistic reificatory judgement.
James will talk about compassion in action and supporting minority groups such as the Huni Kuin in the Amazon. You can read more about this group and how to support them here. This is the Zoom link The password is rigpa James will talk at 3pm (London time) on Sunday May 31st and there will be translators. This event is [...]
James accepted an invitation from Laura Pearls of the Sit-Heads Meditation Club, which describes itself as a sitting and social group for dedicated meditators. This is the Zoom link for the meeting. This is how Laura describes their meetings. Would you be open to joining us virtually some evening as a guest teacher? We would especially love to have you because [...]
James Low 6:00 pm to 7:30pm (London Time) https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter With German (Robert), Polish (Bartek), Portuguese (Milton), Romanian (Viorica), Russian (Marie), Spanish (Juan) and Turkish (Mustafa) translation. Please send your questions to Milton at simplybeingsangha gmail com and he will forward them to James. If you send your questions in advance this gives him a chance to think about them and see if [...]
