James Low Evening public talk: Opening to Life Buddhism offers a view of life which suggests that the royal road to happiness is to remain relaxed, open and available in all circumstances. The more we are present the more we can let go of our ineffective attempts to avoid or control or manipulate the ever-changing flow of experience.
James Low. How to find your mind. The dzogchen teachings point out that our mind is not an object that we can find by thinking about it. Yet it is always here as the ground of all we experience. We will engage in meditation to facilitate our awakening to how our mind is. The times are: 9:30-11:00; 11:30-13:00 ; 14:00-15:30. [...]
James Low. How to find your mind. The dzogchen teachings point out that our mind is not an object that we can find by thinking about it. Yet it is always here as the ground of all we experience. We will engage in meditation to facilitate our awakening to how our mind is. The times are: 9:30-11:00; 11:30-13:00 ; 14:00-15:30. [...]
James Low The nonduality of stillness and movement in mind, in dzogchen meditation. Stillness and movement are often seen as opposites, thus we feel still when we are not anxious or excited. Due to this there seems to be a need to avoid the turbulence of daily life if we want to be calm. Yet we need to work, maintain [...]
James Low The nonduality of stillness and movement in mind, in dzogchen meditation. Stillness and movement are often seen as opposites, thus we feel still when we are not anxious or excited. Due to this there seems to be a need to avoid the turbulence of daily life if we want to be calm. Yet we need to work, maintain [...]
James Low Relating to everyday complexity with the relaxed ease of our spacious mind. The focus is on integrating whatever arises in the openness of meditation. In this busy world it is easy to feel overwhelmed by complexity…there are just too many demands on our limited time! In fact our life is organised around our limitations…of time, money, health, interest, [...]
James Low Relating to everyday complexity with the relaxed ease of our spacious mind. The focus is on integrating whatever arises in the openness of meditation. In this busy world it is easy to feel overwhelmed by complexity…there are just too many demands on our limited time! In fact our life is organised around our limitations…of time, money, health, interest, [...]
James Low Intrinsic purity and purity through purification. We will use Padmasambhava's words from chapter 9 of 'Simply Being' and Nuden Dorje's instructions from chapter 8 of 'Simply Being' to find ourselves in primordial purity. This will be supported by doing Semdzin meditations. To enter purity through purification we will do Dorje Sempa practice according to 'Simply Being' chapter 4 [...]
James Low Intrinsic purity and purity through purification. We will use Padmasambhava's words from chapter 9 of 'Simply Being' and Nuden Dorje's instructions from chapter 8 of 'Simply Being' to find ourselves in primordial purity. This will be supported by doing Semdzin meditations. To enter purity through purification we will do Dorje Sempa practice according to 'Simply Being' chapter 4 [...]
James Low Indestructible freedom. This 4 day retreat will focus on settling into the clarity which is present in all experience. Through meditation, including some of the methods of the semdzin and using chapter 8 of Simply Being we will open the space within which all obscurations are self-liberating and go free like clouds dissolving in the sky. The price [...]
James Low Indestructible freedom. This 4 day retreat will focus on settling into the clarity which is present in all experience. Through meditation, including some of the methods of the semdzin and using chapter 8 of Simply Being we will open the space within which all obscurations are self-liberating and go free like clouds dissolving in the sky. The price [...]
James Low Finding Freedom in Daily Life Daily pressures seem to be ever increasing with spiralling obligations. The idea of finding freedom from this is tempting, yet running away does not free us from ourselves. Dzogchen meditation is a simple means to find freedom in the midst of demand and turmoil. Freedom to be with all of life rests in the [...]
