Song of the Cuckoo. Extract 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.

Transcribed by Jo Feat

Edited by Barbara Terris

Two texts were studied on this retreat. The Mirror of Luminous Revelation (from Nuden Dorje Drophan Lingpa) and The Mahamudra Middle Way of the Ganges (from Tilopa). At the end, James gave a short commentary on the 6 line Vairocana text, known as The Song of the Cuckoo  and also The Cuckoo’s Cry Heralding the Good Fortune of Glorious Presence.

Read the 7 page transcript here.

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