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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.
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Day Seminar. Frankfurt Tibethaus, 2018
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, availability and so on. Dzogchen points to the infinite, unlimited openness of our intrinsic awareness. The focus of the meditation we will practise together is to relax into that openness and awaken to the spaciousness which can welcome whatever occurs.
Wie wir auf die Komplexität des Alltags mit der entspannten Leichtigkeit eines weiten Geistes reagieren können
In dieser geschäftigen Welt fühlen wir uns leicht von deren Komplexität überwältigt. Es werden einfach zu viele Anforderungen an unsere beschränkte Zeit gestellt! Tatsächlich spielt sich unser Leben rund um die Begrenztheit von Zeit, Geld, Gesundheit, Interessen, Verfügbarkeit usw. ab. Dzogchen dagegen zeigt uns die unendliche, unbegrenzte Offenheit unseres ureigenen Bewusstseins auf. In der gemeinsamen Meditationspraxis wollen wir uns genau in diese Offenheit hinein entspannen und zu einer geistigen Weite erwachen, die alle Erscheinungen willkommen heißen kann.