Keep it simple: dzogchen in daily life. Brighton, May 2007

Because our life is nothing but moments, events, arising and passing, arising and passing. All that we’ve ever done is gone. Our childhood is gone. We can remember it, we can tell stories about it, but it’s gone. Even our breakfast is gone. Everything is gone. If we really see that, then when we tell people about ourselves, about our past, we’re just inviting them to fall asleep with us. We’re saying, ‘I had a lovely dream, let me share it with you. You can fall asleep in my dream for a while and then, because I believe in reciprocity, I’ll fall asleep in yours.’

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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 Alentejo Videos on Vimeo

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Illusion, delusion, confusion. Vienna, Jan 2020

James Low Weekend retreat,10-12 Jan 2020. Qigong Kleinowitz Center, Vienna. Illusion, delusion, confusion We have so many experiences in life. This is possible because our mind is intrinsically open and hospitable to each new moment. Yet this openness is hidden for us by our own involved busyness. Engaged in the never-ending task of self-delusion we impede the unimpeded and obscure […]

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Love and impermanence. Warsaw, 2019

James Low Love and impermanence: from grasping and attachment to simply seeing and appreciating Teaching weekend, Warsaw, 14-15 December 2019 Transcribed by Anna Aly Labana and Paula Aranibar. Read and download the transcript You can listen to the audio here. Extract   The drama of romantic love: it’s not that we shouldn’t fall in love, some of us can’t help […]

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Easy illumination. Oxford, Nov.2019

James 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 […]

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The Mirror of luminous revelation, Aracena, 2016

This text comes from Nuden Dorje, the first incarnation of my own teacher, C R Lama. We believe that Nuden Dorje was himself an incarnation of one of the close disciples of Padmasambhava, and that Padmasambhava came directly from the pure heart of Amitabha.
Buddhist texts often include a history of how the text arose, from whom, where and when. To say that a text came directly from Padmasambhava or from the mind of another great teacher, what does this mean? Why should we trust it? Who should we trust? You come here and I am telling you a lot of things. Why should you trust me? If you trust there is a chance you will be cheated, but if you don’t trust it’s difficult to proceed.

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