Teaching on the Heart Sutra. Umbusi, Estonia, 2013 [2020]

James Low

Weekend teaching retreat, 20-22 Sept 2013

Umbusi (a village outside Tallinn), Estonia

Transcribed by Camel Chhimed Wangpo and by Nele Rubis

Edited by James Low Oct 2020

The English translation of the Heart Sutra is included.

Read the transcript in English

Contents Page

The Heart Sutra The heart of perfect liberating transcendental wise discerning
An overview of the issues
Meditation: a release from endless preoccupations
Teaching dharma is an aspect of compassion
Four Noble Truths
Don’t be a leaky bucket
Freeing ourselves from our assumptions
The Three Kayas: the ripe presence of a buddha’s enlightenment
As soon as we learn to speak, we learn to lie
The Heart Sutra
Three Turnings of the Wheel of the Dharma
Five Skandhas
Wise discerning
Movement
Emptiness and form
The focus of meditation is the non-duality of stillness and movement
Free of signs
Free of stains
Listing all the empty occurrences: the Three Wheels
The emptiness of the Twelve Nidanas
Even the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths are empty!
Transcendental wise discerning