Illusion delusion and confusion. Public Talk, London 2020
New Transcript: Transcript added 11 Oct 2020.
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On anxiety. Eifel Autumn Retreat, 2005
New transcript and translation: James revised the 2005 transcript in Sept 2020 and Jayachitta translated it into German Jan 2021 with help from Frank Sandschulte. Uploaded 26 Jan 2021.
» Read moreIllusion, delusion, confusion. Vienna 2020
New Transcript: Transcription added 1 Sept 2020. The Audio and Video are already available.
» Read moreSolitude and how to make use of it. Zoom, May 2020
New translation. Already translated into Spanish by Caroline Van Kilsdonk. Now translated into Turkish by Mustafa Mert Çelebi. Uploaded 15 Dec 2020
» Read moreEmptiness, equanimity and kindness. Zoom, April 2020
Talk by James Low, “Emptiness, Equanimity and Kindness” April 2020. When many people are suffering our hearts go out to them and we wish them well. This quality of kindness is vital to extend our connectivity beyond the people of our personal concern. However from the buddhist point of view the power of kindness is greatly increased by merging it with the wisdom of emptiness.
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Guided meditation1: Moving in stillness. Text. Guided meditation2: Finding stillness in movement Text James Low has made recordings of two short guided meditations (April 2020) for releasing stress and integrating stillness and movement. These are designed for people in the caring professions working long hours due to COVID-19 and who only have brief periods to practise. Each lasts 10 minutes. […]
» Read moreCalm and clear. Public Talk. 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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