Love your mother. Video of Zoom Teaching. Oct 2020

James Low teaching on 3-4 October 2020 In this life a woman gave birth to you. You call that woman your mother. She has given you a great gift yet you will die. However you have another mother, a mother you have never met yet who is never apart from you. This is your intrinsic mother who has never given […]

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Emptiness, equanimity and kindness. Zoom, April 2020

Talk by James Low, “Emptiness, Equanimity and Kindness” April 2020. When many people are suffering our hearts go out to them and we wish them well. This quality of kindness is vital to extend our connectivity beyond the people of our personal concern. However from the buddhist point of view the power of kindness is greatly increased by merging it with the wisdom of emptiness.

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Illusion, Delusion and Confusion. 3 days, London, 2020

New Transcript: The evening talk and the weekend teachings in London on “Illusion Delusion and Confusion” for the Shang Shung Institute. “If you awaken to your own mind, in that moment all the tensions release. The negative impulses release and you are able to connect, because it’s there from the beginning. It’s not done by you. None of us are doing by ourselves; we are the blossom, the breath of the Buddha. That’s all. Alive in this form for a while, dissolving and changing. We are not things. We are light and colour and shape and beauty. So, in this way hopefully we continue. ” Uploaded 5/9/23

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Keep it simple: dzogchen in daily life. Brighton, May 2007

Because our life is nothing but moments, events, arising and passing, arising and passing. All that we’ve ever done is gone. Our childhood is gone. We can remember it, we can tell stories about it, but it’s gone. Even our breakfast is gone. Everything is gone. If we really see that, then when we tell people about ourselves, about our past, we’re just inviting them to fall asleep with us. We’re saying, ‘I had a lovely dream, let me share it with you. You can fall asleep in my dream for a while and then, because I believe in reciprocity, I’ll fall asleep in yours.’

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