James Low 24-27 April 2008 Retreat at the Kamalashila Institute in the Eifel. Download the transcript Topics: Buddhist ‘tools’: what are they for and how do we use them? Emptiness Dzogchen: things are as they are Choosing a practice that suits you Bardo teachings from the Shitro Terma of Karma Lingpa The Root Verses of the Bardo A Prayer for […]
» Read moreDownload the PDF Extracted from the first evening and first day teachings at the Eifel Spring Retreat on the Six Bardos, 24-27 April 2008 James Low Transcribed by Jo Féat and edited by Barbara Terris Excerpts: …Just observe and try to see the point where you get caught. The quicker you can see that you are caught, the quicker you can let […]
» Read moreThis short teaching was given by James Low towards the end of the retreat at Kamalashila Institute in the Eifel during April 2008. At that time there were uprisings and suppressions reported in Tibet. It was transcribed by Jo Féat and edited by Barbara Terris. Download the prayer
» Read moreA terma treasure text of Nuden Dorje. Teaching and commentary on his translation by James Low. Todtmoos, June 2007.Transcribed by Sarah Allen and edited by Barbara Terris. This terma text with commentary is included in Chapter 8 of Simply Being. The Todtmoos transcript has also been incorporated into a book prepared by Robert Jaroslawski and called Zuhause im Spiel der […]
» Read moreWhen things are calm it is easy to disturb them. When things are clear it is easy to dirty them, to make them lose their clarity. On an ordinary level calmness and clarity are very vulnerable states. This is because of the very nature of our existence. From a traditional buddhist point of view the functioning basis of our existence, of how we operate as human beings, is to be caught up in an experience of duality: looking inside we experience ‘ourselves’, and looking outside we experience ‘things’ which are other. But of course, it is not quite as simple as that.
» Read moreÖffentlicher Abendvortrag, 10. März 2006. Berlin Übersetzt von Daniel Beierstettel Als PDF downloaden Auszüge: Der entscheidende Punkt ist sehr einfach. Nimm das Leben nicht zu ernst! Wenn du zurückschaust, wirst du sehen, dass du schon viele Schwierigkeiten in der Vergangenheit hattest, und nun sind sie verschwunden. Jetzt schlägst du dich mit den Problemen dieses Momentes herum, und wenn du das […]
» Read moreTalk delivered by James Low at a Conference on Death and Dying organized by Bristol Chan Group and Western Chan Fellowship, February 2006 Transcribed and edited by Wendy Chozom Download as PDF Excerpts Where we go wrong in this experience of dying is to imagine that things are happening to us rather than accepting everything, both subject and object, as my […]
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