Death and Dying. Eifel, April 2013
Teaching by James Low
Kamalashila Institute, the Eifel, Germany
11-14 April 2013
Transcribed by: Deniz Csernoklavek
Read and download the unedited transcript from the retreat here.
Excerpt: …There is no way to describe a pear that gives the same experience as eating it. You can go to an art gallery and see many still life paintings of lemons, grapes, peaches, pears and all different kinds of fruit. The grapes in a Caravaggio painting may look incredibly lifelike but you still can’t eat them. They are mnemonics, they are reminders; they evoke a memory of the felt sense of a grape. It’s just like a grape, but it’s not a grape.
You can listen to the 2013 retreat here
James also taught on death, dying and the six bardos in the Eifel retreat of April 2017.
- The text supporting that retreat was The Root Verses of the Six Bardos. The Root Verses of the Six Bardos is published in Chapter 4 of Collected Works of C.R. Lama.
- The German edition was published under the title Gesammelte Schriften von Chimed Rigdzin Rinpoche.
- You can listen to this 2017 retreat here.