Poem about the Mother and her endless toys. Emerson, 2019

Here is a poem James wrote during the Emerson summer retreat in 2019. You can listen to James reading it on file number 11, starting exactly 02.28 and up to 03.34. https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/clarity-and-equanimity/ Mother, ground, basis, source, I remain unborn within you, playing with all the plays within you.   You offer endless toys, rising like dream gifts for me, whom […]

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Love your Mother

There are three sections to this book. The first section explores our origins and uses the clarity that arises from this to ease us out of our isolation.
The second section describes how we wander in samsara due to the de­pendent arising of the twelve links on the wheel of becoming.
The third section describes how we can use the teaching of the The Heart Sutra to awaken to emptiness.

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Why emptiness is liberating. London, 2016

James Low,  teaching in London on 25 February 2016 at the invitation of Shang Shung Institute. “Awakening to the fact of there being nothing frees us from the endless quest for something. Our problem is the seeming ‘thing-ness’ of things, our sense that we exist as some-‘thing’ in a world of many different ‘things’. The reification which imputes a real […]

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Heart Sutra

Translated by C.R. Lama and James Low in 1978. Revised by James Low, August 2013 Download PDF of Heart Sutra in English Download PDF of Heart Sutra  in Portuguese Download PDF of Heart Sutra in German Download PDF Of Heart Sutra (extracted from “This Is It’)  in German translated by Robert Jaroslawski   Embedded with the permission of Adrian Freedman.  

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