Tag: Portugal

Taking your ease where you are always welcome. Colares, Portugal, 2026

REGISTRATION • INSCRIÇÕES • INSCRIPCIONES Taking your ease where you are always welcome James writes, “We will focus on opening to our minds as they actually are, free of conceptual covering. We will meditate, communicate and participate in various activities bring us ever-closer to the here-and-now. The retreat will have a new style of timetable with James teaching in the […]

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Seeing and Imagining. Retreat. Portugal 2025

Seeing and Imagining Imagining is the play of the ground source. If the source is seen then all that is imagined is non-dual illusion, like a mirage or a dream. If the ground source is not seen and opened to then all that is imagined is reified and then we experience ourselves as existents in a world of existents. There […]

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Discover the presence: the mother of all buddhas. Portugal, 2020

James Low. 16-19 Jan 2020. Alentejo, Portugal. Teaching and meditation retreat focussing on a Tibetan text by Gonpo Wangyal, called “Discover the presence: the mother of all buddhas”. Gonpo Wangyal text in various languages. English and Brazilian Portuguese Translator: Milton Petruczok Organiser: João Vale Neto Recordings: Pedro Gomes Download the audio files here video 1 https://youtu.be/aEuPx1jb2n0?si=XhLLPi3SnZV2YeSc video 2 https://youtu.be/ZuCep2-PeXM?si=Ay4kQfmJmECLWcrY

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Calm and clear: finding space for life. Audio. Lisbon, 2020

James Low Calm and clear: finding space for life. Instituto Macrobiótico de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal. 15 Jan 2020 As the our world becomes faster and more challenging – and as new crises and demands emerge – it is helpful to find a relaxed, open spaciousness within ourselves, and so start to welcome and respond to these movements. Buddhist meditation practices […]

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Meditation and psychotherapy. Public Talk. Lisbon, 2020

James Low. Public Talk, 14 Jan 2020. Instituto Macrobiótico de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal. Meditation and psychotherapy. In order to be open and available in the clinical setting, we need to be able to drop our pre-occupations and pattern formations. Being present with and for the other, without an imposed agenda, is perhaps our greatest gift. English and Brazilian Portuguese Translator: […]

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