Integrating the three aspects of kindness
Our aspiration for the benefit of others has no limits and can arise in fresh forms with each situation we encounter.
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Why is it so difficult to relax? Public Talk. Vienna, 2019
New Translation. Özden Atik and Mustafa Mert Çelebi have prepared GEVŞEMEK NİÇİN BU KADAR ZOR? in Turkish. Uploaded 26 April 2023
» Read moreKeep 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.’
» Read moreLetting the mind settle. Public talk. Geneva, 2019
James Low Letting the mind settle: how to find freedom without searching and striving Public talk, Geneva, 7th July 2019. Organised by Manon Widmer.Transcribed by Sanatan. Listen to the audio recording here. Extracts …If instead of applying the concept ‘flower’ we just look and open to it like the Buddha did, simply sitting there. When thoughts and feelings arise we […]
» Read moreThe Experience of self-liberation. Public Talk. Vienna 2012
Latest change: Turkish translation by Mustafa Mert Çelebi added 26/10/20
» Read moreAspects of Nyima Özer. London, 1995
Talk by James Low London, 22 April 1995 Transcribed by Ruth Rickard and edited by Barbara Terris ExcerptThe key thing that I want to emphasise today is that this story of Nyima Özer is about the nature of service and of being a servant. The bodhisattvas are our servants and from that point of view, their service is holy. It […]
» Read moreThe Mirror of luminous revelation, Aracena, 2016
This text comes from Nuden Dorje, the first incarnation of my own teacher, C R Lama. We believe that Nuden Dorje was himself an incarnation of one of the close disciples of Padmasambhava, and that Padmasambhava came directly from the pure heart of Amitabha.
Buddhist texts often include a history of how the text arose, from whom, where and when. To say that a text came directly from Padmasambhava or from the mind of another great teacher, what does this mean? Why should we trust it? Who should we trust? You come here and I am telling you a lot of things. Why should you trust me? If you trust there is a chance you will be cheated, but if you don’t trust it’s difficult to proceed.