Open heart open mind. Retreat. Vienna, Jan 2019

James Low The open heart, the open mind, is the basis of our life. It is not a thing we have but rather a radiant presence. During these days we will explore emptiness, relative and absolute truth, the basic structure of tantra, and Garab Dorje’s Three Statements and see how they all point to the intrinsic integrity of life. With […]

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Where does it all come from? Austria, 2018 Retreat

James Low Maitreya Institute, Gutenstein, Austria 7-9 Sept 2018 Dzogchen retreat: Where does it all come from? The dzogchen view of the origins of our many patterns of being lost. We will use the text of ” The Aspiration Prayer of Kuntuzangpo” (known in Tibetan as the Kunzang Monlam) to see how the mirage-like illusion emerged, and with it our […]

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Finding freedom in the source, Todtmoos 2018

  Finding freedom in the source Retreat 8-10 June 2018 Todtmoos, Germany The familiar horizon established by our sense of self affords us a very limited sense of our own potential. Through awakening to the ground of being, the spacious awareness which pervades every aspect of our life, we can gain depth and light, freedom and easy communication with all […]

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Staying Sane in an Insane World. Freiburg, 2018

Public Talk 7 June 2018 Freiburg, Germany Staying Sane in an Insane World Buddhist teaching emphasises the impermanence of all phenomena. Our experience moment by moment is the ever-changing patterning of the happenstance of emergence. However our sense of self requires us to feel a degree of reliability and predictability in the patterning of our existence. Our ego self fears […]

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The radiance of emptiness. Public talk, Cologne, 2018

James Low The radiance of emptiness: The mystery of nonduality, or, How everything comes out of nothing and yet there is always more than nothing available. 18th Apr 2018 Cologne, Germany English and German “So, tonight we are going to have an impossible task. Why is this an impossible task? Because we are going to look at emptiness, which is […]

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No one to blame, no one to gain. Cologne 2018

Public Talk 18 April 2018, Koeln, Germany No one to gain, no one to blame. Ignorance and enlightenment, how does this happen ? Did we get lost by ourselves? Do we have to make ourselves enlightened? We will make a brief exploration of this strange situation that we find ourselves in. German and English This was followed by theĀ Eifel Spring […]

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