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 […]
» Read moreRelaxing into freedom: a day of teaching and practice. We are used to structuring our lives around the notion of the self, our individual view of the world and our personal agency. However, when we explore who we are through meditation, we come to find that this egoistic or dualistic (me/not me) view perpetuates our being in a seemingly inescapable […]
» Read more4-6 Nov 2022, UK (Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall College) Organised by Gio Maschio Recorded by Gareth Williams Our Self-Liberating Mind As people in a complex world, we often struggle to free ourselves from habits, situations, beliefs, organisations and so on. As subjects, we are entangled in a world of objects that both support and constrain us. From the point of […]
» Read moreJames Low Our Self-Liberating Mind As people in a complex world we often struggle to free ourselves from habits, situations, beliefs, organisations and so on. As subjects we are entangled in a world of objects that both support and constrain us. From the point of view of the dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism subject and object, self and other are […]
» Read moreJames Low Teaching weekend Oxford, 9-10 November 2019 Easy illumination We inhabit a paradox as our self-revealing mind is hidden by our way of looking. The structure of a short Dzogchen text by the extraordinary Tibetan Yogini Ayu Khandro was used to explore how not to get in the way of our mind’s intrinsic illumination. The focus was on the […]
» Read moreJames Low Evening Public Talk, Oxford 8 November 2019 True nature. James begins by saying that he will be talking about the general principles of a dzogchen understanding of life and its place in buddhism. Organised by Gio Maschio Audio prepared by Tim Stone English only. Followed by 2 days of teaching Download the audio files here
» Read moreJames Low Teaching weekend: The heart of the matter is the open mind Lady Margaret College, Oxford. 1-2 Dec 2018 Organised by Giovanni Maschio Recorded by Tim Stone Although we rely on our mind in every aspect of our lives, the mind itself is rarely the focus of our interest and attention. Meditation is a simple yet profound way to get to […]
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