James Low Karma Thegchen Chö Ling Dharma Centre, Bremen, Germany 15-16 October 1994 Transcribed by Liz Fox Download the PDF Not Edited Last time I was here I talked about tantra and I’ll return to that theme this time. This afternoon I’ll make some general remarks, bringing up the theoretical underpinnings of the practice of tantra and tomorrow we will […]
» Read moreThe word tantra in Tibetan means continuity or connectedness. Traditionally this indicates the continuity of awareness through all the moments of experience. Awareness is like the open sky; clouds and sunshine and rockets pass through the sky, but the sky itself is open to all of them. That is to say the continuity of the sky, the sky-ness of the […]
» Read moreJames Low Download PDF Bremen, Germany 29 January 1994 Transcribed by Liz Fox Unedited Excerpts “Our topic is psychotherapy and buddhism so I will start by saying something about the Buddhist understanding of the mind’s mental processes, and then reflect on that in relation to psychosis, anxiety and depression. After that we can look at whether there is any contribution […]
» Read moreWild heart Gathering, East Sussex, UK. September 2010 James Low Transcribed and edited by Sarah Allen Read the the transcript in English Read the transcript in German. Read the transcript in Portuguese. Read the transcript in Spanish. You can also listen to a recording of this talk at the audio link Extracts We are not the content of our mind and […]
» Read moreJames Low Amorebieta, Spain. 18-20 June, 2010Transcribed by Deniz CsernoklavekEdited by James Low and Barbara Terris Excerpts …In Tibet it was said that dzogchen existed before buddhism arrived. It was there before the bön religion too. That is to say, it is not an invented system, but it is something that was, is, and always will be, and that people […]
» Read moreThe meaning of the Tibetan word for ‘Buddha’, Sangye (Sangs-rGyas). James Low Talk given for the Cambridge Buddhist Society, UK. 11 March 2010 Download the Transcript of the Talk Transcribed by Jo Féat Edited by Barbara Terris and James Low Excerpts from the Talk …The end of therapy is marked by the patient, having been freed from the transference, now […]
» Read more“What does it mean for me to be me? What is our real identity? Is our identity just what we take it to be – the narratives that we say about ourself – or is identity perhaps something different?
From the point of view of dzogchen, there are many ways to see the constructed way in which we create fantasies of identity about who we are. We may occupy them for some time, but then it becomes impossible to occupy them any more because the present becomes the past.
The present is always becoming the past, so what shall we rely on? This is the central question in dzogchen because if we rely on something unreliable we feel betrayed and we do not feel supported.”
