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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. You can register for the meeting here. Those [...]
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 [...]
Dear friends, starting today (17.03.2023), Milton and I are hosting daily 7 line prayer 8-9AM dedicating it to James (Lisbon/London Time). The link is below. Here is the text of the Seven Line Prayer and the Seven Line Prayer with Long Life Prayer and Dedication Love João https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5375744785?pwd=MDZEM1cvcUc0K2MzbFdURDhuRjlBdz09 Meeting ID: 537 574 4785 Passcode: light
