Wisdom and Compassion Teaching Days. March 2025

James Low Macclesfield, UK. There will be a balance of teaching and meditation. “Wisdom and Compassion are often said to be like the two wings of a bird…with their collaboration we can fly free of the snares of samsara and its false dualism.  We will integrate the wisdom of emptiness which reveals how all our experience is like an illusion […]

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Finding refuge and spreading light. [22]. Macclesfield, 2023

7-28 Jan 2023 UK Macclesfield, Townley Hall James Low Finding refuge and spreading light: Finding enduring refuge in the intrinsic purity of our own mind. Macclesfield Talks 22 On Youtube. Organised by Ann Buxton and Sue Scott. Filmed by Chris Coppock. Video and audio prepared by Pedro Gomes. Download the audio files here

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Kindness, fellow feeling and the common weal [21]. Macclesfield, 2020

  Kindness, fellow feeling and the common weal. 31 Jan 2020 – 2nd Feb 2020 James Low Loving kindness, karuna, is the foundational attitude of Buddhism. Kindness sees all life as kind, as kin, as always-already-connected. With this view the barrier between self and other shrinks and we become inclusive in everything we do. This is deepened and supported by […]

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Balance in turbulent times [20]. Macclesfield, 2019

Equanimity:finding balance in a turbulent world. Macclesfield, 22-24 February 2019 James Low Charles Lomas organised this annual teaching weekend for the Kun-Pan Ling Buddhist group in Macclesfield. Précis: Attempts to withdraw from turbulence or to control the mind are actions which increase our sense of separation. The mahayana view looks at how our mind is, rather than focusing on its […]

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Working with life, working with death [19]. Macclesfield, 2018

Macclesfield, 9-11 March 2018 James Low The Macclesfield UK Talks [19] Sound – Gareth + Wendy We are looking at what being alive is from the buddhist point of view and how this illuminates the death process. Précis: Many different ideas exist about what happens at death and these direct our intentionality in this life. The talk examines what buddhism […]

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