Meditation und Dzogchen • Hamburg 2008

Öffentlicher Vortrag im TTC Hamburg 29.02.2008. James Low PDF downloaden Übersetzung: Axel Wasmann Transkription: Joerg Struve Überarbeitet von Jayachitta und Christiane Wittekind Extract Wir sind wie Kinder, die morgens am Strand eine Sandburg bauen, und dann nachmittags enttäuscht sehen, dass das Meer sie weggespült hat. In allem, was wir tun, bauen wir bloß Sandburgen. Die Annahme, dass es mehr sei, ist reine […]

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Calm and clear. Freiburg, 2006.

When things are calm it is easy to disturb them. When things are clear it is easy to dirty them, to make them lose their clarity. On an ordinary level calmness and clarity are very vulnerable states. This is because of the very nature of our existence. From a traditional buddhist point of view the functioning basis of our existence, of how we operate as human beings, is to be caught up in an experience of duality: looking inside we experience ‘ourselves’, and looking outside we experience ‘things’ which are other. But of course, it is not quite as simple as that.

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Back to basics: the four basic reflections and refuge. Eifel 2001

Extracted from the start of the  Eifel Retreat, October 2001 James Low Download the PDF Transcribed by Sarah Allen Edited by Barbara Terris “Most of us who have been involved with buddhism for some time will have reflected a lot on impermanence, but it is never something to treat lightly.  It is the royal road to an understanding of stillness […]

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