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The Heart of Dzogchen. Eifel, Oct 2012

2012-10-14

“What does it mean for me to be me? What is our real identity? Is our identity just what we take it to be – the narratives that we say about ourself – or is identity perhaps something different?

From the point of view of dzogchen, there are many ways to see the constructed way in which we create fantasies of identity about who we are. We may occupy them for some time, but then it becomes impossible to occupy them any more because the present becomes the past.

The present is always becoming the past, so what shall we rely on? This is the central question in dzogchen because if we rely on something unreliable we feel betrayed and we do not feel supported.”

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The Roots of happiness. Public Talk. Hamburg, 2008

2012-10-12

James Low Evening Public Talk Download the Public Talk Hamburg, Germany, 29th February to 2nd March 2008 Transcribed by Sarah Allen Excerpts … We are like children who spend the morning building a sandcastle on the edge of the sea and then when they come back from lunch are very unhappy because the sea has washed their castle away. Everything we […]

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Sameness and difference: buddhist and western understandings of identification. Freiburg, 2007

2012-10-11

James Low Public talk Freiburg, Germany Evening of Thursday 21st June 2007 Download PDF Transcribed by Yashomitra [Jonathan Baker] and Wendy Chozom Edited by Barbara Terris Excerpts From the point of view of buddhism the mind is considered to be not something which can be filled, but something which reveals. The traditional example for this is the image of a […]

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Gleichheit und Verschiedenheit: buddhistisches und westliches Verständnis von Identifikation. Freiburg, 2007

2012-10-11

James Low Ein öffentlicher Abendvortrag von James Low Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007 Übersetzt von Julia Dreyer Download the Pdf Auszüge Vom buddhistischen Standpunkt aus wird der Geist als etwas betrachtet, das nicht angefüllt werden kann, sondern als etwas, das etwas offenbart. Das traditionelle Beispiel dafür ist das Bild eines Spiegels… Wenn wir uns aber auf unsere eigene […]

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Offen Leer und Endlos. Dzogchen Klausur, Berlin, 2006

2012-10-10

James Low Berlin, 11. & 12. März 2006 Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Matthias Steingass Download Pdf of the Retreat Extracts … Das Wichtigste in Bezug auf Lehre, Übertragung und Lehrer ist ihre Beziehung zur Leerheit, denn das ist es was die Beziehung zum Lehrer zu etwas macht, das die Basis unseres ‘Seins in der Welt’ fundamental verändert… …Die Klarheit, die […]

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Ignorance: how it arises and how we find ourselves at home in it. Berlin, 2006

2012-10-10

James Low Evening public talk, 10th March 2006. Berlin Download Pdf Transcribed by Sarah Allen Edited by Barbara Terris Extracts … The essential point is very simple. Don’t take life too seriously! If you look back, you will see you have already had many troubles in the past, and now they have gone. Now you are struggling with the […]

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Open, empty and endless. Dzogchen Retreat, Berlin, 2006

2012-10-10

Meditation practice itself will not change the content of our mind but it will change the relationship we have with the content of our mind. This is one reason why meditation can be very boring, because you spend a lot of time just being with yourself—and actually, we are all a bit boring! James Low Berlin, 11-12 March, 2006 Download the Pdf […]

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