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James Low • Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
United Kingdom
Приєднався 10 бер 2016
James Low is a disciple and teacher in the Byangter and Khordong lineages of the late Chhimed Rigdzin Lama.
James regularly teaches the principles of dzogchen Buddhism in Europe and he publishes translations and commentaries from time to time.
Many of his seminars have been recorded and transcribed. They are now being put on his website to provide access for those seeking to deepen their dharma understanding and explore how to apply it in the complexities of everyday life.
Instagram of excerpts from James Low's teachings: simplybeingsangha
Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/
James regularly teaches the principles of dzogchen Buddhism in Europe and he publishes translations and commentaries from time to time.
Many of his seminars have been recorded and transcribed. They are now being put on his website to provide access for those seeking to deepen their dharma understanding and explore how to apply it in the complexities of everyday life.
Instagram of excerpts from James Low's teachings: simplybeingsangha
Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/
3/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024
6th to 14th July 2024. Mahamudra and Dzogchen summer retreat with James Low at Berghof, city of Wiesen, in Bavaria, Germany.
simplybeing.co.uk/events/26545/
This 9 day retreat focused on two texts:
1) The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal (teacher in the Drukpa Kagyud tradition of Ladakh and a disciple of Shakya Shri)
• English version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra-Instructions-Tipun-Pema-Chogyal-BT-31-01-2024.pdf
• German version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra_Tipun_Deutsch_V.1.5_Final-1-06-02-2024.pdf
2) Notes on Mahamudra by Padma Karpo:
• English version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes-on-Mahamudra-Padma-Karpo-JLow-27-02-2024.pdf
• German version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes_on_Mahamudra_Padma-Karpo_German_RJ_V.1.11_Final.pdf
These texts show us how to identify and respond to the many kinds of obstacles that can occur in practice. The aim of the retreat was to enable us to maintain calm, clear awareness whatever occurs. There were many sessions of meditation practice.
0:00 Day 5 afternoon
2:43:17 Day 6 morning
? Day 6 afternoon
7:55:11 Day 7 morning
1/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024: ua-cam.com/video/LhInqqRVJGY/v-deo.html
2/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024: ua-cam.com/video/J58da9lBxUw/v-deo.html
3/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024: ua-cam.com/video/XEvmfCmqj58/v-deo.html (you are here)
4/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024: ua-cam.com/video/BPW1VxBNDMs/v-deo.html
Instagram of excerpts from James Low's teachings: simplybeingsangha
Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/
simplybeing.co.uk/events/26545/
This 9 day retreat focused on two texts:
1) The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal (teacher in the Drukpa Kagyud tradition of Ladakh and a disciple of Shakya Shri)
• English version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra-Instructions-Tipun-Pema-Chogyal-BT-31-01-2024.pdf
• German version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra_Tipun_Deutsch_V.1.5_Final-1-06-02-2024.pdf
2) Notes on Mahamudra by Padma Karpo:
• English version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes-on-Mahamudra-Padma-Karpo-JLow-27-02-2024.pdf
• German version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes_on_Mahamudra_Padma-Karpo_German_RJ_V.1.11_Final.pdf
These texts show us how to identify and respond to the many kinds of obstacles that can occur in practice. The aim of the retreat was to enable us to maintain calm, clear awareness whatever occurs. There were many sessions of meditation practice.
0:00 Day 5 afternoon
2:43:17 Day 6 morning
? Day 6 afternoon
7:55:11 Day 7 morning
1/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024: ua-cam.com/video/LhInqqRVJGY/v-deo.html
2/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024: ua-cam.com/video/J58da9lBxUw/v-deo.html
3/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024: ua-cam.com/video/XEvmfCmqj58/v-deo.html (you are here)
4/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024: ua-cam.com/video/BPW1VxBNDMs/v-deo.html
Instagram of excerpts from James Low's teachings: simplybeingsangha
Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/
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1/2 The Ganges Mahamudra Essential Instruction of Tilopa. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2023
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11th to 14th May 2023. James Low teached for 4 days on “The Ganges Mahamudra essential instruction of Tilopa”, which is the 6th text in Section 1 of his book "Sweet Simplicity", at Ciamma Ling Centre, Wilga, in Poland. simplybeing.co.uk/events/retreat-in-poland-may-2023/ Polish translation: Bartek Czajkowski 1/2 The Ganges Mahamudra Essential Instruction of Tilopa. Wilga 05.2024: ua-cam.com/vid...
2/2 The Ganges Mahamudra Essential Instruction of Tilopa. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2023
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11th to 14th May 2023. James Low teached for 4 days on “The Ganges Mahamudra essential instruction of Tilopa”, which is the 6th text in Section 1 of his book "Sweet Simplicity", at Ciamma Ling Centre, Wilga, in Poland. simplybeing.co.uk/events/retreat-in-poland-may-2023/ Polish translation: Bartek Czajkowski 1/2 The Ganges Mahamudra Essential Instruction of Tilopa. Wilga 05.2024: ua-cam.com/vid...
2/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024
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6th to 14th July 2024. Mahamudra and Dzogchen summer retreat with James Low at Berghof, city of Wiesen, in Bavaria, Germany. simplybeing.co.uk/events/26545/ This 9 day retreat focused on two texts: 1) The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal (teacher in the Drukpa Kagyud tradition of Ladakh and a disciple of Shakya Shri) • English version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra-...
33 Questions & Answers. Zoom 07.2024
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3rd July 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Note: the constant cuts in this video result from the removal of James Low's periods of silence, while waiting for the consecutive translation from the German translator. 0:00 How to keep generosity going in the face of other loved one suffering, yet not caring for themselves? 7:58 How can I...
33 Questions & Answers. [EN-DE] Zoom 07.2024
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3rd July 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. German translation: Robert Jaroslawski 0:00 How to keep generosity going in the face of other loved one suffering, yet not caring for themselves? 16:05 How can I distinguish between simply being conscious of sitting during formal sessions and being aware in the state of presence? 29:35 On th...
33 Questions & Answers. [EN-RU] Zoom 07.2024
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3rd July 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Russian translation: Marina Samarina 0:00 How to keep generosity going in the face of other loved one suffering, yet not caring for themselves? 13:49 How can I distinguish between simply being conscious of sitting during formal sessions and being aware in the state of presence? 25:12 On the ...
33 Questions & Answers. [EN-ES] Zoom 07.2024
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3rd July 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Spanish translation: María Lleó 0:00 How to keep generosity going in the face of other loved one suffering, yet not caring for themselves? 13:53 How can I distinguish between simply being conscious of sitting during formal sessions and being aware in the state of presence? 25:33 On the cushi...
33 Questions & Answers. [PT] Zoom 07.2024
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3rd July 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Portuguese translation: Milton Petruczok 0:00 How to keep generosity going in the face of other loved one suffering, yet not caring for themselves? 6:56 How can I distinguish between simply being conscious of sitting during formal sessions and being aware in the state of presence? 12:47 On t...
1/4 The Practice of Meditation. Wiesen 07.2024
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6th to 14th July 2024. Mahamudra and Dzogchen summer retreat with James Low at Berghof, city of Wiesen, in Bavaria, Germany. simplybeing.co.uk/events/26545/ This 9 day retreat focused on two texts: 1) The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal (teacher in the Drukpa Kagyud tradition of Ladakh and a disciple of Shakya Shri) • English version: simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra-...
32 Questions & Answers. Zoom 06.2024
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5th June 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Note: the constant cuts in this video result from the removal of James Low's periods of silence, while waiting for the consecutive translation from the German translator. 0:00 Introduction and the Pali Bāhiya Sutta 18:56 Many public intellectuals propound a view that all choices are entirely...
32 Questions & Answers. [EN-DE] Zoom 06.2024
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5th June 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. German translation: Robert Jaroslawski 0:00 Introduction and the Pali Bāhiya Sutta 38:54 Many public intellectuals propound a view that all choices are entirely predetermined, determined by factors such as genes, environment, diet and upbringing, so that, actually, free will or free choice i...
32 Questions & Answers. [EN-RU] Zoom 06.2024
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5th June 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Russian translation: Marina Samarina Q.1) Introduction and the Pali Bāhiya Sutta Q.2) 18:56 Many public intellectuals propound a view that all choices are entirely predetermined, determined by factors such as genes, environment, diet and upbringing, so that, actually, free will or free choic...
32 Questions & Answers. [EN-PL] Zoom 06.2024
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5th June 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Polish translation: Bartłomiej Czajkowski Q.1) Introduction and the Pali Bāhiya Sutta Q.2) 18:56 Many public intellectuals propound a view that all choices are entirely predetermined, determined by factors such as genes, environment, diet and upbringing, so that, actually, free will or free ...
32 Questions & Answers. [EN-ES] Zoom 06.2024
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5th June 2024. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Spanish translation: @juanb.garcialazaro 0:00 Introduction and the Pali Bāhiya Sutta 34:54 Many public intellectuals propound a view that all choices are entirely predetermined, determined by factors such as genes, environment, diet and upbringing, so that, actually, free will or free choice...
32 Questions & Answers. [EN-PT] Zoom 06.2024
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Trying too hard is not helpful, not trying at all is not helpful, so we are the children of the middle way - James Low
Thank you for using so many different ways to tell us how caught up we are and how it is possible for us to liberate from our torment . I am grateful.
Too much thinking makes the world very, very stale. That's why we have a saying english 'someone can know the price of everything and the value of nothing' because your so used to calculating how this relates to that and that and that and it takes you away from the immediacy of 'this is precious because it touches me' - James Low
Thank you so much for the teaching .
❤
'I don't have to perform to meet your expectations' that is a huge, huge freedom. Where we say 'you are free to think of me whatever you like, like me, don't like me, be interested, not be interested, I don't need to think about you'. Why, because my thoughts about you don't reach you. You are not who I think you are. Is that true. Therefore if I am thinking about what you think of me this is called semantic masturbation. It is non-connective, it doesn't produce anything, it's self referential because I don't actually know how you are in this moment and how you would be if you were able to respond openly and easily to how I am as I take myself to be. So this is all saying all these scripts you have learned, all these storylines that have been fed to you in the course of your education in some ways they are pathways of connectivity, they open doors, they allow you to operate in the world but if you take them seriously you become enslaved by what you take to be the expectation of others - James Low
My great Inspiration since more than 20 Years. Thanks so much, James.
Thank you James, hope your feeling ok 💖
I’m a James fan, but he often makes anti-conservative comments. I don’t think he’s ever spoken against the socialists (who actually are destroying Britain and the USA with their policies). It takes real money to buy groceries and gas (much more affordable under the Trump policies).
Audio quality is superb.
om mani Peme hung 🙏🏼
48:40 Why should meditation be done with open eyes?
This Sangha is lucky. All the 🔑 🔑 to liberation presented in your own tongue.
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!.
thank you very much, James. That was extremely awakening!
When I was at a Rinzai Zen monastery they had me sit with extreme pain and my legs would be so asleep when the meditation ended I had no sensation below the knee. They place a lot of emphasis on no movement at all and to just 'be' the pain. I learned to sit with excruciating pain. I sit Soto Zen now, and they are much more relaxed about following your body's signals and moving if you have to. Hearing the story at 4:27:00 brought this back to me. I could have really damaged my legs sitting like I did. I think sitting with mild pain can be useful, but only to a point. You should always listen to your body.
In the Title we correctly understand Dharma instead of "Doha "? Thankyou for your valuable teaching !
This is fantastic. Thank you sincerely for sharing
There is no "Judeo-Christian" tradition. There is the Christian tradition with its many facets and varieties and which draws upon Jewish writings, and there is the Jewish tradition with its many facets and varieties. Why conflate the two? It's intellectually lazy.
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That why in the dzogchen tradition and the mahamudra they say 'just be cheerful', which sounds a bit like stupid advice but whatever happens don't worry, don't take it too seriously. Because what it's doing it's speaking to us on an ordinary level, when we can’t meditate and we feel really fucked up and we're lost and we're confused at least put on a smile, because if you smile other people will smile and it will cheer you up. Because if you go into the depths, if you start cutting groove into yourself and the record repeats and repeats you get a trapped feeling. 'I don't know what to do, I'm stuck' and that's a terrible situation, how could you be stuck when everything is impermanent and dynamic and moving - James Low
James, so in my case Im too commited to helping others/sacrifising myself, esp those who are deepest in suffering, denial and also done me wrong. But to take a vow and tie it to an outcome of their descision, we either start forcing/seducing them in subtle ways or we wait forever before we detach. Im more loyal towards others then my own freedom but its gotten to a point it might make me sick. Its also the avoidance of guilt because when I am spoken through its often a breaking down of identity and in some this can cause narcisitic collaps for example. Then you are left with a desperate utterly dependent inner child who feels again, and admit they want light and leave behind their ways but also has no hope or confidence in themselves to be strong enough to not be selfish. What to do, or better: how to view this. I know I see my freedom as a threat to these people because of the immense desperation they most often chose even deeper denial and become more selfish, they cant invision a way out so shut down completely and become numb more to bear that. This is not the best for all. How can I include both myself and them? It cannot be I have to sacrifise myself for all eternity when they dont want to look at themselves. I feel I will become sick if I longer refuse to be the open door. Its my deepest desire to awaken myself and others but I dont want to leave the ones who are most lost behind. I was willing to sacrife my freedom and fullfilment if its in the best interest of them because objectively they are off so much worse. I put myself in prison and stay silent, restrict myself from relaxing and expressing, but that willingness is shifting now so I wonder if there is any way to look at this wich can set me free more? Maybe I have been manipulated, it cannot be my responsibility what they chose but that is what I hear when you speak about the example of the vow taken by a Buddha to stay until all beings are freed. edit: I just read about diffrent kinds of courage and one is to look at what is holding you prison, to do what is right for all but the third is to be yourself without value judgement (I dont want to harm). Im clearly lacking in the third and maybe too much of the second so Im trying to use the first
Does that go for human label's too? Mum, Dad, brother,sister etc. who knows. Very interesting.
The gifts James brings us through his teachings are boundless and completely inexpressible as is my gratitude. After 64 years of Buddhist meditation practice, thanks to your generosity, I find I know nothing. How fortunate! Gassho 🙏🏼
Where to get the molds?
James Low is a treasure.
Thank you James 🙏🏻
Brilliant ❤🙏
Thank you so very much! This really resonates.
By Pedro; Short refuge prayer SANG DJE TCHÖ DANG TSOG TCHI TCHOG NAM LA DJANG TCHUB BAR DU DAG NI TCHAB SU TCHI To the excellent Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, I go for refuge until enlightenment; DAG GUI DJIN SOG DJI PE SOD NAM TCHI DRO LA PEN TCHIR SANG DJE DRUB PAR SHOG By the merit of giving and the rest, May I attain buddhahood for the sake of all beings.
Very nice Thank you so much🙏😀👍
If you have relaxation you have integration, that why in dzogchen in particular we focus on relax and release. We're not trying to build up better self, to build up clarity, to build up insight, we're allowing the carapace, the shell of obscurity, of self referential closedness to fall away, to thin and dissolve until the openness, which was always there, is clear for us. We have been obscured in a shell, the shell is formed by the creatures that make shells by their own secretions. This is us, we secrete thoughts, feelings, sensations and they adhere to us, they are sticky, this is attachment - James Low
Thank you, James.
Thank you🙏🏼❤️
Thank you 🙏🏼
I'm praying for your health "James" Your clarity, warmth and fart joke Dharma has brought me back in
Thank you so much for the teaching.
Keep well James, we all love you.
Dear James thank you for this great offer!!! OMAHHUNG XXX
Thank you so much for this James and channel fairies if there are any. I can't say how much I appreciate it. I have been studying Buddhism for a while now, mainly theravada but for the last while I have been deep into zen and the last few months into Dzogchen. It's much harder to break into I have found and having Teachers such as yourself who say it plainly and for everyone is invaluable. I would love to join a retreat if one comes up near me so I'm keeping an eye on your website. I wish you a long life. If anyone has any other teachers they could recommend I would appreciate it. I have found Lama Lena is great so far. Thanks my friends.
So this is the dharma point of view; who is this person, this one, this me that says I exist, I am like this. So when we look at emptiness we are taking all the qualities that we attribute to ourselves and that we hear and see other people attributing to us and we try to see do they have substance, do they have truth, are they actually defining who I am or is this like children making sandcastles, just piling together moments of possibility into a form which has no essence. Sandcastles always fall apart, the tide comes in washes them away or other children jump onto them, they have no essence, we also have no essence. We are in situations which are held together by so many factors we don't know - James Low
These series of Q&A are pure gold.thanks James ❤
In a nutshell, "I think, therefore I am." Nothing new here. Is speechless Thomas the wierd dude they cut to all the time🧐...he doesn't exist in my CONCIOUSNESS 🤨🙄🤣😖
Thank you, James & thank you to all people who help post the materials on the UA-cam Channel! 🙏💝
Your one great teacher, James. May you be blessed with better health and long life!
What an amazing offering to be given access to all this material from the retreat - THANK YOU, James and helpers, I can hardly believe my luck! 😃🙏🏼❤️
James, you're a legend 🙌 11 and a half hours ❤
We have to see the power of ideas. Everything is an idea. Ignorance is an idea. Being unaware of your own ground is because you are over aware of ideas. You fall in love with ideas. You hold onto ideas and it is as if the idea will keep you afloat - James Low
1:47:00 don't struggle with your circumstances 2:06:00 interacting in a field/monologue 3:29:15 Frozen peas
Better to be here than there James...cheers