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Opening to our open source: living with wisdom and kindness. Retreat. Krakow, Sept 2022

Krakow, Jazz Like That Dance Studio Rynek Główny 34, floor I, "Jazz Like That” Studio, Kraków, Poland

Opening to our open source: living with wisdom and kindness Awakening to the simplicity of moment by moment experience Retreat on Sept 22-25, 2022 Rynek Główny 34, floor I, "Jazz Like That” Dance Studio, Kraków, Poland. The workshop will be translated to Polish by Bartek Czajkowski. There will be a public talk beforehand on the evening of Wednesday 21st September. [...]

Q&A [23]. Zoom, 28 Sept 2022

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James Low. 6pm to 7:30 pm (London Time) https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter With German (Kati), Polish (Bartek), Portuguese (Milton or João) and Spanish (Marie) translating. Please email your questions to simplybeingsangha gmail com and we will forward them to James. If you send your questions in advance this gives him a chance to think about them and see if any common themes emerge. Registrations are [...]

Awakening here and now: mahamudra retreat. Veciana, Oct 2022

Veciana Casal La Salle, Veciana, Barcelona, Spain

Awakening here and now: a mahamudra retreat. James Low James will be teaching using his book Sweet Simplicity.  This has been translated into Spanish by Mariana Orozco as Maravillosa Simplicidad. The teaching starts at 10 am on 3rd October and ends at 1pm on 9th October.  Some places are still available but please book soon (13 Sep 2022). A minibus [...]

The Two Truths. Zoom teaching weekend. Oct 2022

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James will be teaching this weekend on The Two Truths, with reference to Chapter 7 of his book, Simply Being. The book has been translated into various languages. There will be Zoom translations into German, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. You can download the English text of Chapter 7 here. You can download the Portuguese text of Chapter 7 here. Registrations can [...]

Q&A [24]. Zoom, 2 Nov 2022

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James Low. 6pm to 7:30 pm (London Time) https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter With German, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish translation. Please email your questions to simplybeingsangha gmail com and we will forward them to James. If you send your questions in advance this gives him a chance to think about them and see if any common themes emerge. Registrations are made here. Those who would like [...]

Our Self-Liberating Mind. Teaching weekend & Social Evening. Oxford. Nov 2022

Lady Margaret Hall College Norham Gardens, Oxford, United Kingdom

James Low Our Self-Liberating Mind As people in a complex world we often struggle to free ourselves from habits, situations, beliefs, organisations and so on.  As subjects we are entangled in a world of objects that both support and constrain us. From the point of view of the dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism subject and object, self and other are [...]

Q&A [25]. Zoom, 23 Nov 2022

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James Low. 6pm to 7:30 pm (London Time) https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter With German, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish translation. Please email your questions to simplybeingsangha gmail com and we will forward them to James. If you send your questions in advance this gives him a chance to think about them and see if any common themes emerge. Registrations are made here. Those who would like [...]

The Mahamudra Aspiration. Zoom teaching weekend. Dec 2022

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James will be teaching this weekend on the Mahamudra Aspiration which is the final text in Sweet Simplicity. James will offer the Refuge and Bodhisattva vows on the afternoon of Saturday 3rd December, which is an auspicious 10th day on the lunar calendar.  Here is the text that will be used for people wanting to take Refuge and the Bodhisattva Vows.  [...]

Dropping the Veils to Yourself. Teaching days, Berlin 2022

Bodhicharya Germany eV Buddhist Center for Peace and Understanding Kinzigstr. 25-29, Berlin, Germany

James Low Our identity is formed from the beliefs that we and others have about who and what we are. Buddhism shows us directly that all such identities are an illusion, a veil to the bright actuality of our intrinsic awareness.  Over the weekend we will explore various Buddhist ways of viewing experience in order to dissolve misleading assumptions and [...]

Taking Refuge and Bodhicitta vows. Zoom. Jan 2023

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For people who want to take Refuge and Bodhisattva Vows, (and this is necessary for people intending to take the Padmasambhava initiation later in January) James will be giving these vows. The text for taking the Refuge and the Bodhisattva Vows is below. Please read it beforehand. Please note there will be no live translating, simply James talking in English.  [...]

Padmasambhava Empowerment. 14-15 Jan 2023. Zoom

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Empowerment for Padmasambhava according to the Khordong Lineage.  James Low. Translators are: German (Robert Jaroslawski), Polish (Bartek Czajkowski), Russian (Ольга Малеева) Spanish (Juan Bautista) and Portuguese (João Vale/Milton Petruczok).  Times are: 10:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00 on both days.  Please note that due to the demands of the empowerment ritual the timetable on Saturday may need to be adjusted. However we will start [...]

Finding refuge and spreading light. Macclesfield, Jan 2023

Townley Hall Townley Street, Macclesfield, United Kingdom

James Low teaching 27-28 Jan 2023. Finding refuge and spreading light. We will focus on finding enduring refuge in the intrinsic purity of our own mind. There will be a balance of teaching and meditation. Friday 4.0 - 5.30,   6.0 - 7.30 Saturday 9.30 - 11.00,  11.30 - 1.00 2.30 - 3.45,   4.15 - 5.30 Anne Buxton and Sue Scott [...]