Relaxing into freedom. Oxford, Nov 2024

James Low, 2nd October 2024 talking in The Story Museum in Oxford. Organised and recorded by Gio Maschio. Edited by Gareth Williams. “… a network of vibrating anxiety – “Am I okay?  Is this the right way to be?” – the way out of that is to relax, open – it is as it is – and then life gets […]

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Ideology of self and the presence of freedom, 2017

The ideology of self and the presence of freedom Read this short piece of writing by James Low, 2017 In English In German The ground is not changed by its display. This display is the play of awareness, of presence inseparable from the ground. The ground seems not to be present when there is absence of presence inseparable from the […]

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The deep and vast freedom of the dharma. 2017

Open the PDF of this article, The deep and vast freedom of the dharma.    …At first compassion arises as an aspiration: “May all beings be happy.” Then it becomes the heart and motive of our practice as we develop bodhicitta and hold all beings in mind. Later, compassion arises effortlessly, as compassion free of reification, compassion that effortlessly helps all beings in […]

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Embodiment, karma and freedom, 2017

Read the PDF  of this article, Embodiment karma and freedom.  “At each moment the doors of samsara and nirvana are open. But are we free to be free, to free ourselves from our habits of identifying with finite entities, and so find ourselves free to go through the door of freedom?”

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