James Low, 23 April 2020 It begins: Mum sends you, age 7, to the market to buy oranges, only oranges, and “don’t buy anything else!” The women with the fruit and vegetable stalls want to sell you what they have, “Look” they say, “what lovely bananas and the grapes, Oh, such lovely grapes – and these pears are so amazing.”
» Read moreThis book offers three approaches to awakening. The first section, Fighting the Good Fight, is concerned with how we can commit ourselves to the mindful activity of renouncing our familiar and often comforting limiting habits. Here the orientation is towards leaving our familiar ego-home and going on a journey to seek something which seems only to be available elsewhere. The […]
» Read more5/4/20 Auf Wunsch von Giovanna Santoro von der Associatione Mudita in Mailand hat James Low Audioaufnahmen von zwei kurzen geführten Meditationen gemacht, um Stress abzubauen und Stille und Bewegung zu integrieren. Diese wurden für Menschen konzipiert, die in Pflegeberufen arbeiten. Sie können sie vielleicht nur für kurze Zeit üben, weil sie gerade sehr viel zu tun haben. Jede Meditation dauert […]
» Read moreNew 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
» Read moreOur aspiration for the benefit of others has no limits and can arise in fresh forms with each situation we encounter.
» Read moreNew Translation: Portuguese translation prepared by João Vale Neto. Uploaded 1st March 2021. Dutch translation prepared by Janine Huizing. Uploaded 14 March 2021.
» Read moreBardo indicates an interlude, an intermission, a moment or period occurring between other, different, moments or periods. The six bardos are: the bardos of the nature of birth; of dream; of meditation; of death; of actuality and of becoming.
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