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 […]
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» Read moreTalk 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 moreThis 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.
New Portuguese Translation. Equanimidade e a atração dos cinco venenos. Frankfurt 2019. por Gustavo Nascimben Santos. Uploaded 20 Jan 2023
» Read moreJames Low Public talk, QiGong Kleinowitz Center, Vienna September 5, 2019 Transcribed by Kate Egetmeyer Extract.. a kind of pre-dawn shimmering, before the sun has come up, even before it’s low on the other side of the hill, when you look at the morning star …space… indistinct … you can’t make out shapes. With the rising of the light more […]
» Read moreThis evening we will look at the general principles of dzogchen understanding and I’ll do my best to keep it clear, simple and hopefully useful in some way.
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