Simply Looking. Extracted from The Happy Twins, Eifel 2019

James Low

Extract taken from ‘The Happy Twins: Dzogchen and Mahamudra.’ Autumn Retreat in the Eifel, 2019 James Low

The retreat focussed on two texts: The Mirror of Luminous Revelation, a terma text from Nuden Dorje Drophan Lingpa and The Mahamudra Middle Way of the Ganges spoken by Tilopa to Naropa. It also focused on how to respond, as Buddhists, to climate change and other world crises.

Transcribed by Jo Feat

Edited by Barbara Terris

James talks about the difference between looking, and looking for something.

In the English language we can say that we are looking for something or listening for something. But in this practice we are simply looking or simply hearing. The seeing or the hearing is what arises in the mirror of your mind. If you go into the more active ‘looking for something’ or ‘listening to something’ you are already tilted towards judgement.

Read the 4 page transcript here.

Listen to the whole retreat here. https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/year/audio2019/autumn-2019-the-happy-twins