Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
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| Dissolving Obscurations in the Innate Openness of Presence. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2026 | 03 Oct 2026 | 08:18:53 | |
Dissolving Obscurations in the Innate Openness of Presence A Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Wilga, Poland, held May 21–24, 2026. The teachings were given with Polish translation. "From the point of view of dzogchen, collaboration and participation are much more important than dominance and control. That is to say, we relax and find ourselves within the field of our participation. The world reveals itself as we reveal ourselves – nothing is fixed and everything moves together. The field of experience is responsive yet will always slip out of our attempts at total control. The one who wants control is the one who is already in duality." Credits Links Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0tOnuUhFdg Chapters | |||
| The Illusion of Perception | 03 Oct 2026 | 00:05:47 | |
The Illusion of Perception A teaching by James Low on Dzogchen and Tibetan Buddhism, given to a practising audience. This episode is an extract from the longer teaching "Wisdom and Compassion", given in Macclesfield in March 2025. You can watch the full teaching here: https://youtu.be/jtjlM1CYuN4 Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Qp3DnR4QY Chapters | |||
| The Integration of Stillness and Movement: the approach of different buddhist paths. Eifel 10.2001 | 27 Sep 2026 | 06:37:17 | |
October 2001. James Low teaches on "The Integration of Stillness and Movement: the approach of different buddhist paths" at Kamalashila Institute in the Eifel region of Germany. "Most of us who have been involved with buddhism for some time will have reflected a lot on impermanence, but it is never something to treat lightly. It is the royal road to an understanding of stillness and movement." ~ James Low Contents: Resources: Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5IOUHAwWvw Chapters | |||
| Emptiness and dzogchen: the song of the cuckoo. [EN-ES] Granada 10.2014 | 20 Sep 2026 | 10:13:19 | |
Teachings by James Low in Granada, Spain, on "Emptiness and Dzogchen," based on Vairocana's text "The Song of the Cuckoo" (31 October - 02 November 2014). Original audio in English with consecutive Spanish translation by Juan B. García Lázaro. "Dzogchen is concerned with knowing your own nature. There are many different paths in Buddhism and gradually they became organised into different styles or families. Some are gradual, others less so, but generally it is a matter of knowing what suits you best." ~ James Low Full audio recordings available at: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-recordings/year/audio2014/emptiness-and-dzogchen-granada-2014/ Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMiuPdVZUsA Chapters | |||
| Patience and non-duality. [EN-RO] Zoom 05.2026 | 18 Sep 2026 | 01:20:15 | |
In this teaching from May 9th, 2026, James Low explores patience and non-duality as a means to avoid reactivity to provocations. This session was delivered via Zoom with Romanian translation by Viorica Constantinescu. Note: The cuts in this video result from the removal of periods of silence during consecutive translation from German. Versions in other languages: Amazonian World Sanctuary - Compassionate Call: Learn more about this ancestral people, native to pre-colonial Brazil: We support Indigenous shaman and spiritual leader Mapu Huni Kuin: instagram.com/mapuhunikuin Resources: Watch the original video on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=8Z7L6-L-ZGI | |||
| Patience and non-duality. [EN-PT] Zoom 05.2026 | 18 Sep 2026 | 01:24:56 | |
James Low teaches on patience and non-duality as a means to avoid reactivity to provocations. Recorded on Zoom, May 9th 2026. This recording has been edited to remove periods of silence during consecutive translation from German. Portuguese translation by Madalena Pedroza. Other language versions: Resources: Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=w9-JGF6xmuE Chapters | |||
| Patience and non-duality. [EN-ES] Zoom 05.2026 | 18 Sep 2026 | 01:25:02 | |
May 9th 2026. James Low's teachings on Zoom about "Patience and non-duality as a means to avoid reactivity to provocations". 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. Spanish translation: Juan B. García Lázaro Other language versions: Resources: Watch the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eAMBC9c_Ok | |||
| Patience and non-duality. [EN-RU] Zoom 05.2026 | 18 Sep 2026 | 01:19:03 | |
May 9th 2026. James Low's teachings on Zoom about "Patience and non-duality as a means to avoid reactivity to provocations". Russian translation: Marina Samarina 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. Other language versions: Amazonian World Sanctuary - Compassionate Call: Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow Original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99o7s9XPxUc | |||
| Patience and non-duality. [EN-DE] Zoom 05.2026 | 18 Sep 2026 | 01:28:18 | |
James Low teaching on Zoom about patience and non-duality as a means to avoid reactivity to provocations, given on May 9th, 2026. This recording is the German translation version. The constant cuts in this video result from the removal of James Low's periods of silence while waiting for consecutive translation from the German translator, Robert Jaroslawski. Other language versions: Support the Amazonian World Sanctuary: More resources: Watch the original video on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=L0MxibNpB3o | |||
| Interpersonal dharma. Devon 11.2001 | 04 Sep 2026 | 06:23:58 | |
November 10th 2001. James Low talked about the application of dharma in psychotherapy at The Sharpham Trust, in Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom. This is an audio-only recording with background video extracted from "The flow of transmission and the transmission of flow. Macclesfield 06.2007". Audio edited by Wendy. More information: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-recordings/retreats/interpersonal-dharma/#sharpham-trust-totnes-devon-uk-10-nov-2001 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrRJd7DtSjo Chapters | |||
| Approaching Non-Duality. [EN] Todtmoos 04.2026 | 27 Aug 2026 | 04:02:53 | |
James Low's Dzogchen retreat "Approaching Non-Duality" took place 23rd-26th April 2026 in Todtmoos, Germany. James Low writes: "The traditional structure of Buddhist teachings is that each level or vehicle has its own View, Meditation, Activity and Result. Over the years I have focused on making the various views and meditations as clear as possible. I feel that our retreats now need to have increasing emphasis on your activity and proactive learning." He continues: "We all have a lot of life experience and so how can we mobilise this experience to become an ally on our path instead of an obstacle? Rather than relying on our habitual assumptions and conclusions, our practice is to investigate how our subjectivity arises in different situations. We aim to locate the ground (or basis) for our subjective thoughts, feelings and actions in our simple presence within the ever-open here and now." The retreat featured morning teachings by James Low, with afternoon small group activities led by experienced sangha members. The aim in Dzogchen is to see the self-vanishing of each moment by ripening our presence without engaging in dualistic reificatory judgement. Organiser and German translation: Robert Jaroslawski More information: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/approaching-non-duality-todtmoos-april-2026/ Watch the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vE2tZ5MsTI Chapters | |||
| Talk__QA_with_Dzogchen_Teacher_James_Low._Zoom_03.2026_w_Jon_Krop_by_Sit-Heads_Meditation_Club | 25 Aug 2026 | 00:53:37 | |
A talk and Q&A session with Dzogchen teacher James Low, hosted by Jon Krop for the Sit-Heads Meditation Club via Zoom in March 2026. Watch the original video: Chapters | |||
| How to cultivate mental health in a world on fire? With Lama Padma Samten. [EN] Zoom 08.2026 | 23 Aug 2026 | 00:31:39 | |
How to cultivate mental health in a world on fire? A conversation between Lama Padma Samten and James Low, with consecutive translation to Portuguese. In this conversation, James Low joins Lama Padma Samten to explore mental health, meditation and Buddhist wisdom in the face of the uncertainty, conflict and complexity of contemporary life. Invited by Lama Padma Samten, James Low reflects on how our habitual ways of seeing ourselves and the world shape our experience, and how awareness, presence and a deeper understanding of the nature of mind can open a different way of relating to suffering, confusion and change. Drawing from the Buddhist tradition and their many years of teaching and practice, they offer perspectives on how we can meet a troubled world without becoming overwhelmed by it, cultivating clarity, compassion and inner freedom. Lama Padma Samten is a Brazilian Buddhist teacher and founder of the Centro de Estudos Budistas Bodisatva (CEBB). Lama Padma Samten: James Low: Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4pWqcK_jjA Chapters | |||
| How to cultivate mental health in a world on fire? With Lama Padma Samten. [EN-PT] Zoom 08.2026 | 22 Aug 2026 | 01:34:10 | |
August 15, 2026. How to cultivate mental health in a world on fire? A conversation between Lama Padma Samten and James Low, with consecutive translation to Portuguese. In this conversation, James Low joins Lama Padma Samten to explore mental health, meditation and Buddhist wisdom in the face of the uncertainty, conflict and complexity of contemporary life. Invited by Lama Padma Samten, James Low reflects on how our habitual ways of seeing ourselves and the world shape our experience — and how awareness, presence and a deeper understanding of the nature of mind can open a different way of relating to suffering, confusion and change. Drawing from the Buddhist tradition and their many years of teaching and practice, James Low and Lama Padma Samten offer perspectives on how we can meet a troubled world without becoming overwhelmed by it, cultivating clarity, compassion and inner freedom. Lama Padma Samten is a Brazilian Buddhist teacher and the founder of the Centro de Estudos Budistas Bodisatva (CEBB). He invited James Low to this dialogue as part of his ongoing work of bringing Buddhist teachings into conversation with the challenges of contemporary life. Lama Padma Samten: James Low: Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4pWqcK_jjA Chapters | |||
| Approaching Non-Duality. [EN-DE] Todtmoos 04.2026 | 19 Aug 2026 | 08:49:40 | |
Approaching Non-Duality. [EN-DE] Todtmoos 04.2026 23rd - 26th April 2026. Approaching non-duality. James Low's Dzogchen retreat in Todtmoos, Germany. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/approaching-non-duality-todtmoos-april-2026/ James Low, April 2026, writes: "The traditional structure of Buddhist teachings is that each level or vehicle has its own View, Meditation, Activity and Result. Over the years I have focused on making the various views and meditations as clear as possible and you can access these through my many audio and video recordings, books and transcripts. I feel that our retreats now need to have increasing emphasis on your activity and proactive learning. We all have a lot of life experience and so how can we mobilise this experience to become an ally on our path instead of an obstacle? Rather than relying on our habitual assumptions and conclusions, our practice is to investigate how our subjectivity arises in different situations. We aim to locate the ground (or basis) for our subjective thoughts, feelings and actions in our simple presence within the ever-open here and now. I will be teaching in the mornings. In the afternoons there will be small group activities led by experienced members of our sangha. They will offer a range of activities and I am encouraging you all to try them out so that you can experience what you can make use of (or not) at each moment in time. The key point is for you to observe what arises for you as you engage with each activity in your ever-changing environment. The aim in dzogchen is to see the self-vanishing of each moment. We do this by ripening our presence without engaging in dualistic reificatory judgement." Organiser and German translation: Robert Jaroslawski Cover art: Jari Lobo (Pexels.com) [James' current project support] 🌳 AMAZONIAN 🐆 WORLD SANCTUARY 🌎 COMPASSIONATE CALL 🙏 Help us return Indigenous lands in Brazil to their original protectors 🤲 Learn more about the project and how to help (money, time and skills etc.): https://simplybeing.co.uk/announcement/huni-kuin-indigenous-people-of-the-amazon 🌿 📱 Instagram of excerpts: instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Podcasts of some teachinhgs: simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vE2tZ5MsTI | |||
| Supporting minority groups. Zoom 05.2026 (Saga Dawa Düchen) | 13 Jun 2026 | 00:58:05 | |
May 31st 2026. James Low talked about compassion in action and supporting minority groups such as the Huni Kuin in the Amazon. Bellow you can read more about this group and how to support them here. This event was taking place on the full moon day (Saga Dawa) of the 4th month in the Tibetan calendar. It commemorates such major events of Sakyamuni Buddha’s life as his birth, awakening, and parinirvāṇa. The Tibetans consider that any positive or negative karma we create during this month is multiplied 100,000 times. 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. Transcript of the meeting (may contain minor errors): https://bit.ly/3RXr4nq Audio of this meeting: https://bit.ly/49SMQyD Other languages' links: [soon] 🌳 AMAZONIAN 🐆 WORLD 🌎 SANCTUARY 💎 Compassionate call 🙏 In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, the Huni Kuin indigenous people are experiencing a rebirth of their identity after decades of slavery and oppression, since the time when they were captured in the forests and forbidden from living their culture. It was only from the year 2000 onwards that the Huni Kuin of the Humaitá Indigenous Land began to remember who they were, coming together to recall their culture and their ancestral, spiritual way of life. After more than 20 years of strengthening, the communities of the Indigenous Land are today living through a cultural peak. 🛶 Learn more about this ancestral people, native to pre-colonial Brazil: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XeY6dhejg7NquTZth8X5ACc7e2Swo1waitMEkMOCXYM/edit?usp=sharing 🔆 James Low's call: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXvyV8AsRS6/ 🐆 Indigenous Shaman (spiritual leader) Mapu Huni Kuin Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/mapuhunikuin/ and https://www.instagram.com/huwakaruyuxibu/ 🎬 Eskawata Kayawai: The Spirit of Transformation: https://youtu.be/muIExL2Qly0 The product of a seven-year project in Brazil. The film tells the story of the Huni Kuin indigenous people, who live deep in the western Amazon of Acre, Brazil, as they return to their ancestral and spiritual way of life by reconnecting with their own culture and identity. 🌿 Help us save one of the hearts of Earth – Amazonia –, a sacred territory of native rainforest and animals from imminent destruction. 🤲 Ways to Offer Your Support (Dāna ≈ energy exchange) 🌐 International Bank Transfer via Wise Account holder: Geraldo Serafim (who is the Financial Director of the Associação Centro Huwã Karu Yuxibu) Direct payment link: https://wise.com/pay/me/geraldos484 🇺🇸 USD (United States) Account holder: Geraldo Serafim Routing (Wire/ACH): 084009519 Account Number: 186066937912307 SWIFT/BIC: TRWIUS35XXX Bank address: Wise US Inc, 108 W 13th St, Wilmington, DE 19801, USA 🇬🇧 GBP (United Kingdom) Account holder: Geraldo Serafim Account Number: 62797102 Sort Code: 60-84-64 IBAN: GB80 TRWI 6084 6462 7971 02 SWIFT/BIC: TRWIGB2LXXX 🇪🇺 EUR (SEPA Zone) Account holder: Geraldo Serafim IBAN: BE57 9052 2877 7335 SWIFT/BIC: TRWIBEB1XXX Bank and address: Wise — Rue du Trône 100, 3rd floor, Brussels, 1050, Belgium 🇧🇷 R$ (Brazil) Pix code: adm.centro.hky@gmail.com (Associação Huwã Karu Yuxibu) ₿ Crypto wallet address (EVM compatible networks) 0x57066552402E0a0142C9c61f9444e8c3Db677BbD May this fundraising be successful and replicated all over the world, in benefit of all beings! 🌬️🤲❤️🔥 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUoxHwmZxYE | |||
| Patience and non-duality. Zoom 05.2026 | 10 May 2026 | 00:48:44 | |
May 9th 2026. James Low's teachings on Zoom about "Patience and non-duality as a means to avoid reactivity to provocations". Transcript of the retreat (may contain minor errors): https://bit.ly/3RgIDhH Audio recording: http://bit.ly/4u3hUE0 Other languages' links: [soon] Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlLVFctvy4Y | |||
| 4/4 Take it easy. [EN-ES] Veciana 09-10.2025 | 10 May 2026 | 05:24:35 | |
27th September - 5th October 2025. Take it easy. James Low's Dzogchen retreat at Casa la Salle, Veciana (Barcelona), Spain. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/take-it-easy-teaching-retreat-veciana-sep-2025/ This retreat focused on relaxing our reliance on habitual patterns of dualistic involvement so that the self-liberation of all experience becomes clear. We went through Patrul Rinpoche’s short text Self-Liberating Understanding, which is Chapter 10 in the book "Simply Being" "Simply Being" book: - English: www.amazon.com/Simply-Being-Texts-Dzogchen-Tradition/dp/1907571019 - Spanish: www.amazon.com/Simplemente-ser-James-Low/dp/8496478440 The texts are available in: - English: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Simply-Being-Text-Ch.-10-31-05-2023.pdf - Spanish: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Chapter-10-Spanish_2024-1.pdf Spanish translation: Mariana Orozco and María Lleó Organisers: Maica Gardia (Mayka) and Antonio Gomez Ceto Cover art: Peggy Anke (Pexels.com) 📱 Instagram of excerpts: instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pIzkPsCzpQ | |||
| 3/4 Take it easy. [EN-ES] Veciana 09-10.2025 | 26 Mar 2026 | 09:06:42 | |
27th September - 5th October 2025. Take it easy. James Low's Dzogchen retreat at Casa la Salle, Veciana (Barcelona), Spain. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/take-it-easy-teaching-retreat-veciana-sep-2025/ This retreat focused on relaxing our reliance on habitual patterns of dualistic involvement so that the self-liberation of all experience becomes clear. We went through Patrul Rinpoche’s short text Self-Liberating Understanding, which is Chapter 10 in the book "Simply Being" "Simply Being" book: - English: www.amazon.com/Simply-Being-Texts-Dzogchen-Tradition/dp/1907571019 - Spanish: www.amazon.com/Simplemente-ser-James-Low/dp/8496478440 The texts are available in: - English: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Simply-Being-Text-Ch.-10-31-05-2023.pdf - Spanish: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Chapter-10-Spanish_2024-1.pdf 1/4 Take it easy. [EN-ES] Veciana 09.2025: youtu.be/JzzZaXqQPyc 2/4 Take it easy. [EN-ES] Veciana 09.2025: youtu.be/LBLPBAu4OsI 3/4 Take it easy. [EN-ES] Veciana 10.2025: youtu.be/R8_nNs3tdK0 (you are here) 4/4 Take it easy. [EN-ES] Veciana 10.2025: [soon] Spanish translation: Mariana Orozco and María Lleó Organisers: Maica Gardia (Mayka) and Antonio Gomez Ceto Cover art: Peggy Anke (Pexels.com) 📱 Instagram of excerpts: instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8_nNs3tdK0 | |||
| Gonpo Wangyal’s Dzogchen. Eifel 10.2010 | 28 Feb 2026 | 09:49:28 | |
October 2010. James taught for four days using the text by Gonpo Wangyal translated as 'Introduction to the nature of the mother of all the buddhas', at the Kamalashila Institute, deep in the rolling countryside of the Eifel region of Germany. Text in Tibetan and English: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Gonpo-Wangyal-Into-to-the-nature-of-the-mother-SA-Final.pdf This retreat was only recorded in audio. The images are from the retreat 'Introduction to the Nature of the Mother of all the Buddhas. Tallinn 11.2017', based on the same text: https://youtu.be/G2x-Y9DlDb4 Transcript of the retreat (may contain minor errors): https://shr.pn//hx9B Audio recording of the retreat: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-recordings/retreats/autumn-2010/#gonpo-wangyals-dzogchen Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSi1ePdxil0 | |||
| 2/4 Take it easy. Veciana 09-10.2025 | 22 Feb 2026 | 11:03:10 | |
27th September - 5th October 2025. Take it easy. James Low's Dzogchen retreat at Casa la Salle, Veciana (Barcelona), Spain. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/take-it-easy-teaching-retreat-veciana-sep-2025/ This retreat focused on relaxing our reliance on habitual patterns of dualistic involvement so that the self-liberation of all experience becomes clear. We went through Patrul Rinpoche’s short text Self-Liberating Understanding, which is Chapter 10 in the book "Simply Being" "Simply Being" book: - English: www.amazon.com/Simply-Being-Texts-Dzogchen-Tradition/dp/1907571019 - Spanish: www.amazon.com/Simplemente-ser-James-Low/dp/8496478440 The texts are available in: - English: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Simply-Being-Text-Ch.-10-31-05-2023.pdf - Spanish: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Chapter-10-Spanish_2024-1.pdf Spanish translation: Mariana Orozco and María Lleó Organisers: Maica Gardia (Mayka) and Antonio Gomez Ceto Cover art: Peggy Anke (Pexels.com) 📱 Instagram of excerpts: instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLPBAu4OsI | |||
| All at Once. [EN-TR] Izmir 10.2025 | 16 Feb 2026 | 04:06:18 | |
10th - 14th October 2025. All at Once. Teaching and Meditation retreat led by James Low at Şirince Village, Selçuk, in İzmir, Turkey. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/all-at-once-teaching-retreat-izmir-oct-2025/ PS: This recording contains only the second half of the retreat. Organised by Mustafa Mert Çelebi, Sevgi Çakıcı and Trevor Brown. The focus of this retreat is seeing how we limit our potential by hanging on to habits and impulses which do not function well in the world in which we find ourselves. Dzogchen, the Great Completion, is the heart of Tibetan Buddhism and it offers us a way to release ourselves from the limiting ideas that we have of ourselves so that the freshness of our simple presence can illuminate our life in a new way. These teachings and practices help us to see the fleeting nature of all experience. With this clarity we can let go of our habit of effortful striving to solidify the flow of experience. This approach to life offers us a profound choice. Either we can continue to objectify whatever occurs so that we can name it and try to shape it to fit our sense of how we want our life to be. Or we can relax and open to being part of the flow, gently influencing how we emerge as part of the circumstances we encounter. This latter approach frees us from the need to verify and analyse so that we can enjoy the freshness of each and every moment. This short retreat will introduce us to the essence of the view of Dzogchen and facilitate how we can enter into direct experience of non-dual co-emergence. There will be periods of teaching and of meditation practice. Referred text: 'Prayer Evocation of Kuntuzangpo', availabel in English, Spanish and Portuguese: https://bit.ly/4tpWxwz Turkish translation: Mustafa Mert Çelebi Cover art: Taryn Elliott (Pexels.com) 📱 Instagram of excerpts: instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7syJlFOJeU | |||
| Equanimity - Finding balance in a turbulent world. Macclesfield 02.2019 | 07 Feb 2026 | 09:07:46 | |
22-24 February 2019. Equanimity - Finding balance in a turbulent world. James Low conducted these teaching weekend for the Kun-Pan Ling Buddhist group in Macclesfield, UK. Attempts to withdraw from turbulence or to control the mind are actions which increase our sense of separation. The mahayana view looks at how our mind is, rather than focusing on its impermanent contents. In the meditation we seek to open to that which is stable, an invitation, an explanation and a practice. ~ James Low Recorded by Charles Lomas and Gareth Williams. Transcript of the retreat: https://bit.ly/4rtBask Audio recording of the retreat: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-recordings/retreats/macclesfield-talk-no-20-equanimity/ Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqyJZ-bwCYA | |||
| 1/4 Take it easy. Veciana 09-10.2025 | 30 Jan 2026 | 11:34:48 | |
27th September - 5th October 2025. Take it easy. James Low's Dzogchen retreat at Casa la Salle, Veciana (Barcelona), Spain. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/take-it-easy-teaching-retreat-veciana-sep-2025/ This retreat focused on relaxing our reliance on habitual patterns of dualistic involvement so that the self-liberation of all experience becomes clear. We went through Patrul Rinpoche’s short text Self-Liberating Understanding, which is Chapter 10 in the book "Simply Being" "Simply Being" book: - English: www.amazon.com/Simply-Being-Texts-Dzogchen-Tradition/dp/1907571019 - Spanish: www.amazon.com/Simplemente-ser-James-Low/dp/8496478440 The texts are available in: - English: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Simply-Being-Text-Ch.-10-31-05-2023.pdf - Spanish: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Chapter-10-Spanish_2024-1.pdf Spanish translation: Mariana Orozco and María Lleó Organisers: Maica Gardia (Mayka) and Antonio Gomez Ceto Cover art: Peggy Anke (Pexels.com) 📱 Instagram of excerpts: instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzzZaXqQPyc | |||
| Mindfulness: theory and practice. Warsaw 11.2008 | 23 Jan 2026 | 00:53:26 | |
26th November 2008. James Low's lecture on "Mindfulness: theory and practice" held at the 1st Conference on "Practical Application of Buddhism in Western Psychology", in Warsaw, Poland. www.buddhisminpsychology.com 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a308y3lfWrI | |||
| Dzogchen in Everyday Life | A Conversation with James Low. Zoom 01.2026 | 18 Jan 2026 | 00:21:23 | |
January 10th, 2026. A conversation with James Low and Viorica Constantinescu about Dzogchen as a living experience, embodied in the simplicity of everyday life. 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 Romanian translator. Starting from the Romanian release of the text “Love Your Mother”, we explore openness, possibility, and how we can relate to our own experience in a more direct, gentle, and authentic way. English: youtu.be/r8r9CH7-XJc (you are here) Romanian: youtu.be/dIOcV9CrTGs Transcript of this video: [soon] Audio recording of this video: [soon] 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8r9CH7-XJc | |||
| Dzogchen in Everyday Life | A Conversation with James Low. [EN-RO] Zoom 01.2026 | 17 Jan 2026 | 00:42:00 | |
January 10th, 2026. A conversation with James Low and Viorica Constantinescu about Dzogchen as a living experience, embodied in the simplicity of everyday life. Starting from the Romanian release of the text “Love Your Mother”, we explore openness, possibility, and how we can relate to our own experience in a more direct, gentle, and authentic way. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIOcV9CrTGs | |||
| Saying the unsayable. Todtmoos 06.2006 | 10 Jan 2026 | 00:22:57 | |
James Low is interviewed by Guido Ferrari during a retreat in Todtmoos, Germany, in June 2006. James was asked what dzogchen is, what it means and how we should live with this awareness. Transcript of this video: https://bit.ly/49pGlCh Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/3NbnKT7 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY_TK5PchC8 | |||
| 4/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025 | 29 Dec 2025 | 08:52:22 | |
30 July - 9 August 2025. Seeing and imagining. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. Imagining is the play of the ground source. If the source is seen then all that is imagined is non-dual illusion, like a mirage or a dream. If the ground source is not seen and opened to then all that is imagined is reified and then we experience ourselves as existents in a world of existents. ~ James Low Texts translated from the Tibetan into various languages: • The Record of the Heart-felt Advice of the Dakini, Indestructible Glorious Lamp: https://simplybeing.co.uk/texts-and-transcripts/translations/heartfelt-advice-ayu-khandro/ • Uncovering the Presence of the Mother of all the Buddhas: a treasure text of Gonpo Wangyal: https://simplybeing.co.uk/texts-and-transcripts/estonian/gonpo-wangyal-text-mother-buddhas/ Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/4iUQ8ov Portuguese translators: Madalena Pedroza & Milton Petruczok Spanish translator: Juan García Lázaro (@juanb.garcialazaro) & Mariana Orozco "(0:00) Mariana Orozco (ES)" "(1:17:09) Madalena Pedroza (PT)" "(2:08:51) Mariana Orozco (ES)" "(3:21:39) Milton Petruczok (PT)" "(4:21:08) Mariana Orozco (ES)" "(5:40:39) Madalena Pedroza (PT)" "(6:35:19) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(8:12:57) Milton Petruczok (PT)" Cover video art: ed1toR, via Pexels.com 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrnBs_Zn2k | |||
| 2/2 Self-liberating understanding. Eifel 10.2015 | 22 Dec 2025 | 07:13:52 | |
15-18 October, 2015. Meditation retreat in Kamalashila Institute, in the Eifel region of German, based on Chapter 10 of James Low's book Simply Being, which is a translation of Patrul Rinpoche's text "Self-liberating Understanding". "Integrating the view, meditation and activity in dzogchen. We will focus on the self liberation of experience, which is the heart of the meditation, and how to apply that within the complexities of daily life. This involves finding the middle way of appearance and emptiness, free of control and avoidance on the one hand, and merging and identification on the other." ~ James Low • Saturday 17/10/2015: - On Refuge recitation - Back to points where confusion or loss of direction can enter - Question - experience with the object - familiar positioning - The mind that is recollecting - cat and mouse - Distraction - intention - neutrality - Deconstructing judgements - Wrapping phenoma in catchability - Mind vacant unfocussed - mind itself empty - Discrimination - categories - Tightening and relaxing attention - My own falsity - Question - thoughts coming going quickly - Rewards compensations equanimity - Question - the one who is having the experience - An explanation of minds activity - Question - how psychological wounds and karma held - Guru yoga practice - Dream yoga - Instruction on self-liberating confusion - Being present with in the everyday - Free of distraction assumption craving - Integrating practice in everyday life - An explanation of the self-liberation of the afflictions • Sunday • 18/10/2015: session - An explanation of how mind reveals itself - How to practice the four aspects of behaviour - The good armour that is the friend of meditation - Essential advice for great meditators - A path of learning Transcript of the retreat: https://bit.ly/4iJbaX5 Audio recording of the retreat: https://www.simplybeing.co.uk/2015/11/28/autumn-2015/ Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty_w8HBEUr4 | |||
| 3/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025 | 14 Dec 2025 | 10:56:41 | |
30 July - 9 August 2025. Seeing and imagining. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. Imagining is the play of the ground source. If the source is seen then all that is imagined is non-dual illusion, like a mirage or a dream. If the ground source is not seen and opened to then all that is imagined is reified and then we experience ourselves as existents in a world of existents. ~ James Low Texts translated from the Tibetan into various languages: • The Record of the Heart-felt Advice of the Dakini, Indestructible Glorious Lamp: https://simplybeing.co.uk/texts-and-transcripts/translations/heartfelt-advice-ayu-khandro/ • Uncovering the Presence of the Mother of all the Buddhas: a treasure text of Gonpo Wangyal: https://simplybeing.co.uk/texts-and-transcripts/estonian/gonpo-wangyal-text-mother-buddhas/ Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/4iUQ8ov Portuguese translators: Madalena Pedroza & Milton Petruczok Spanish translator: Juan García Lázaro (@juanb.garcialazaro) & Mariana Orozco "(0:00) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(1:00:39) Milton Petruczok (PT)" "(2:26:47) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(3:51:59) Madalena Pedroza (PT)" "(4:27:44) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(5:22:53) Milton Petruczok (PT)" "(6:41:48) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(7:55:54) Madalena Pedroza (PT)" "(8:41:07) Mariana Orozco (ES)" "(9:46:43) Milton Petruczok (PT)" Cover video art: ed1toR, via Pexels.com 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzz_UqGGOSA | |||
| 1/2 Self-liberating understanding. Eifel 10.2015 | 07 Dec 2025 | 08:50:59 | |
15-18 October, 2015. Meditation retreat in Kamalashila Institute, in the Eifel region of German, based on Chapter 10 of James Low's book Simply Being, which is a translation of Patrul Rinpoche's text "Self-liberating Understanding". "Integrating the view, meditation and activity in dzogchen. We will focus on the self liberation of experience, which is the heart of the meditation, and how to apply that within the complexities of daily life. This involves finding the middle way of appearance and emptiness, free of control and avoidance on the one hand, and merging and identification on the other." ~ James Low • Thursday 15/10/2015: session 1 introduced "two methods for calming the mind and looking at the contents of the mind by focussing attention." - Shamatha meditation - Distraction - giving ones self - Re-collection and mindfulness - Vipassana - Naming is not neutral - Question - spontaneity and choice - Awareness - Identity - meaning - situation - Nine round breathing - Sitting with what occurs - Leaving appearances to be as they are - Guru Yoga - Guru Yoga instructions - Thoughts and feelings passing through - Question - who notices - mind - ego - Just with the thought - A few words about the text - Introduction to the text - From the heart of a ragged gentleman - Inseparability of your mind and the Dharmakaya - Knowing this everything is liberated - Question - fear - dissolving - Question fear anxiety holding on -This one is sufficient to rule • Friday • 16/10/2015: session 2 develops that. The topic is awareness. "Awareness and attention are not the same. Awareness is the open clarity of the mind which is present whether we are attentive or not. Awareness is innate, is there from the beginning, whether we are aware of it or not." - On Refuge - Question - tree of refuge - Compassion then back to Refuge - Clear and alert in non-artificial voidness - Question - letting go - Do not react - remain without artifice - Practice in conjunction with the text - Your mind is not found by seeking - Staying with the direct experience - Time is limited - Seeking is not necessary - remain without artifice - Non-artificiality removes all obstacles - About the involvement of the experiencer - The demon of elation - relational structures - Buoyant and hopeful - equanimity - Question - faith and trusting - Teaching on the minds hidden faults - Sitting exactly here and now - Question - one ground two paths - the Bardo - Question - Semdzin practice - Question - allowing impact allowing duration - Question - emanation - Question - partial enlightentment - predjudice illumination relative truth - Question - a universal ethical code Transcript of the retreat: https://bit.ly/4iJbaX5 Audio recording of the retreat: https://www.simplybeing.co.uk/2015/11/28/autumn-2015/ Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywDBc4XLsvU | |||
| 2/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025 | 30 Nov 2025 | 11:33:49 | |
30 July - 9 August 2025. Seeing and imagining. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. Imagining is the play of the ground source. If the source is seen then all that is imagined is non-dual illusion, like a mirage or a dream. If the ground source is not seen and opened to then all that is imagined is reified and then we experience ourselves as existents in a world of existents. ~ James Low Texts translated from the Tibetan into various languages: • The Record of the Heart-felt Advice of the Dakini, Indestructible Glorious Lamp: https://simplybeing.co.uk/texts-and-transcripts/translations/heartfelt-advice-ayu-khandro/ • Uncovering the Presence of the Mother of all the Buddhas: a treasure text of Gonpo Wangyal: https://simplybeing.co.uk/texts-and-transcripts/estonian/gonpo-wangyal-text-mother-buddhas/ Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/43JSqAu Portuguese translators: Madalena Pedroza & Milton Petruczok Spanish translator: Juan García Lázaro (@juanb.garcialazaro) Playlist "Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv-KZQo9b6hTYeZBBx5-lQ8lhg0JLM_at • 1/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025: youtu.be/T2BwDfKYmRE • 2/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025: youtu.be/EX_DQ7hFtfY (you are here) • 3/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025: [soon] • 4/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025: [soon] 0:00 Milton Petruczok (PT) 1:33:41 Juan García Lázaro (ES) 2:57:20 Madalena Pedroza (PT) 4:23:50 Juan García Lázaro (ES) 5:15:08 Madalena Pedroza (PT) 6:34:34 Juan García Lázaro (ES) 8:05:45 Milton Petruczok (PT) 9:19:54 Juan García Lázaro (ES) 10:45:41 Madalena Pedroza (PT) Cover video art: ed1toR, via Pexels.com 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_DQ7hFtfY | |||
| Mindful therapy: beliefs and assumptions, a buddhist perspective. Hereford 11.2011 | 30 Nov 2025 | 03:24:19 | |
18 November 2011. James Low gave this workshop for practising therapists in Hereford, UK. “Our open heart touching and opening the heart of the other. This is non-dual contact, the meeting of sky with sky, the heart of Buddhist ethics.” ~ James Low James starts with an introduction to the traditional Tibetan view of mindfulness, then relates this to different psychotherapy theories and finally, with how it can be taken and used in clinical practice. Organised by Jennifer French. Cover video art: Larkkid Dung, via Pexels.com Transcript of this video revised by James: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/275-2011-Nov-Hereford-MindfulTherapy-KB-JL-edit3-webready.pdf Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/4oodDr3 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHKrsNHVU_8 | |||
| The Deathless and the Dying. London 11.2025 | 16 Nov 2025 | 02:28:44 | |
9th November 2025. The Deathless and the Dying. Public talk with James Low at Lekdanling in East London, England, at the invitation of the Shang Shung Institute of Tibetan Studies. The focus will be on illusion as the middle way between the familiar binary opposites of birth and death, health and sickness, life as flow and within that, loss and grief. Cover video art: Amir Mghari, via Pexels.com Transcript of this video: https://bit.ly/4hYIubW Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/44etL73 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CFufzBBuk | |||
| 1/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025 | 14 Nov 2025 | 09:56:41 | |
1/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025 30 July - 9 August 2025. Seeing and imagining. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. Imagining is the play of the ground source. If the source is seen then all that is imagined is non-dual illusion, like a mirage or a dream. If the ground source is not seen and opened to then all that is imagined is reified and then we experience ourselves as existents in a world of existents. ~ James Low Texts translated from the Tibetan into various languages: • The Record of the Heart-felt Advice of the Dakini, Indestructible Glorious Lamp: https://simplybeing.co.uk/texts-and-transcripts/translations/heartfelt-advice-ayu-khandro/ • Uncovering the Presence of the Mother of all the Buddhas: a treasure text of Gonpo Wangyal: https://simplybeing.co.uk/texts-and-transcripts/estonian/gonpo-wangyal-text-mother-buddhas/ Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/4oGBjYs Portuguese translators: Madalena Pedroza & Milton Petruczok Spanish translator: Mariana Orozco & Juan García Lázaro (@juanb.garcialazaro) Cover video art: ed1toR, via Pexels.com 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2BwDfKYmRE | |||
| 42 Questions & Answers. [EN-IT] Zoom 06.2025 | 02 Nov 2025 | 00:42:58 | |
June 4th 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. 1) Is consciousness and mind the same in Buddhism? Is my mind which is deluded and has its own habits and tendencies the same as the mind which is primordial, unborn and clear? If so why is the mind which I call mine deluded? 2) Are the explanations about karma and rebirth offered by traditional Buddhism part of a theory or belief or is it part of experience? Is it under the domain of consciousness or the domain of awareness? Does it make sense to practice Dzogchen without fully accepting these theories? 3) What does it mean if a rinpoche bangs you on the head or gives you a shock? 4) The luminous mind that we all have: is it also a compounded phenomena? If yes, how do we know when it is present and when not? 5) Can a mind involved in conceptual elaboration ever generate compassion or loving kindness? Right mindfulness is one aspect of the eight-fold path. What are instances of wrong mindfulness? How do I guard against wrong mindfulness? 6) In the White A practice, can we eventually include a Padmasambhava visualization with the three colors, the ball that radiates white light and drops into our heart, etc., or the practice of visualizing the tube that goes from the crown of our head to the perineum and then expands? 7) We have some experience within the Theravada and Zen traditions; now we start to explore Dzogchen. What would you recommend: pointing out instructions, initiation, long-term retreat? 8) Is there a practice that can be used to improve someone's situation? How would this work? English: youtu.be/xnsfHHP9vRs English (without silence cuts): youtu.be/Z5vLJzeK4fo German: youtu.be/Z6MKqkIVY48 Russian: youtu.be/b-i8VP36Ozs Polish: youtu.be/r4g3DkxASwQ Spanish: youtu.be/tyWlgXr2RHU Portuguese: youtu.be/UOc2Bi_XuYQ Romanian: youtu.be/GrmoLpoUMvY Italian: youtu.be/vDS6yQ_aK9w (you are here) Italian translation: Rosanna D'Urso 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDS6yQ_aK9w | |||
| 2/2 Tantra & Dzogchen. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2025 | 28 Oct 2025 | 07:30:44 | |
May 14th – 18th, 2025. Tantra & Dzogchen. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Wilga, Poland. The delusion that we exist as definable entities is the basis of all limited and limiting experience. Through dissolving our contrived identity into that of Padmasambhava, we become free to act in whatever ways will help sentient beings. The view of dzogchen deeps our understanding of how this functions and aids our release into our intrinsic source which we have never actually strayed from. ~ James Low Polish translation: Bartek Czajkowski Camera and editing: Olaf Brockmann 📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://youtu.be/5yPN3nXnucg?si=RjH0htYm3QbW-JCC | |||
| 1/2 Tantra & Dzogchen. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2025 | 18 Oct 2025 | 08:16:45 | |
May 14th – 18th, 2025. Tantra & Dzogchen. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Wilga, Poland. The delusion that we exist as definable entities is the basis of all limited and limiting experience. Through dissolving our contrived identity into that of Padmasambhava, we become free to act in whatever ways will help sentient beings. The view of dzogchen deeps our understanding of how this functions and aids our release into our intrinsic source which we have never actually strayed from. ~ James Low Polish translation: Bartek Czajkowski Camera and editing: Olaf Brockmann 📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://youtu.be/fN09exL3mxs?si=0vFSXldKcqlxIC6a | |||
| 2/2 Indestructible freedom. [EN-ES] Barcelona 11.2018 | 11 Oct 2025 | 09:18:26 | |
November 8th – 11th, 2018. Indestructible freedom. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Barcelona, Spain. “The retreat will focus on settling into the clarity which is present in all experience. Through meditation, including some of the methods of the semdzin and using chapter 8 of "Simply Being" we will open the space within which all obscurations are self-liberating and go free like clouds dissolving in the sky.” ~ James Low Spanish translation: Mariana Orozco and Maria Lleó Video recording and initial editing: Antonio Gomez. Full audio recordings of the retreat: [soon] 📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://youtu.be/qsF2g0eCPF4?si=td2TLaOhB8KYtEuR | |||
| 1/2 Indestructible freedom. [EN-ES] Barcelona 11.2018 | 05 Oct 2025 | 09:18:26 | |
November 8th – 11th, 2018. Indestructible freedom. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Barcelona, Spain. “The retreat will focus on settling into the clarity which is present in all experience. Through meditation, including some of the methods of the semdzin and using chapter 8 of "Simply Being" we will open the space within which all obscurations are self-liberating and go free like clouds dissolving in the sky.” ~ James Low Spanish translation: Mariana Orozco and Maria Lleó Video recording and initial editing: Antonio Gomez. Full audio recordings of the retreat: [soon] 📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://youtu.be/C5IrgcTEaRY?si=TwnoKEoqxNp5z-1T | |||
| 4/4 Non-duality is simple. Wiesen 07.2025 | 27 Sep 2025 | 06:50:34 | |
July 5th – 13th 2025. Non-duality is simple. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Retreathaus Berghof, Wiesen, Germany: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/berghof-2025/ James thought using Chapter 8 "The Direct Indication of Buddhahood beyond Classification, by Nuden Dorje" of his book "Simply Being" (available on Amazon): https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Simply-Being-Text-Chapter-8-Revised-31-05-2023.pdf The aim of this dzogchen retreat is to let go of our habitual involvement in the myriad forms of duality. In order to let go we need to sever the links between our erroneous sense of being a separate subject, our erroneous sense of there being separate real objects, and our erroneous grasping at occurrences as if they were the occurrence of something. ~ James Low Full transcript of these teachings: http://bit.ly/4ncixHr Full audio recordings of the retreat: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/retreats/germany/retreats-at-berghof/non-duality-is-simple-july-2025/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://youtu.be/x6waQbrvlDM?si=OV82avLITXQy7IFi | |||
| 3/4 Non-duality is simple. Wiesen 07.2025 | 21 Sep 2025 | 08:18:27 | |
July 5th – 13th 2025. Non-duality is simple. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Retreathaus Berghof, Wiesen, Germany: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/berghof-2025/ James thought using Chapter 8 "The Direct Indication of Buddhahood beyond Classification, by Nuden Dorje" of his book "Simply Being" (available on Amazon): https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Simply-Being-Text-Chapter-8-Revised-31-05-2023.pdf The aim of this dzogchen retreat is to let go of our habitual involvement in the myriad forms of duality. In order to let go we need to sever the links between our erroneous sense of being a separate subject, our erroneous sense of there being separate real objects, and our erroneous grasping at occurrences as if they were the occurrence of something. ~ James Low Full transcript of these teachings: http://bit.ly/4ncixHr Full audio recordings of the retreat: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/retreats/germany/retreats-at-berghof/non-duality-is-simple-july-2025/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://youtu.be/uHsHwe5aG1k?si=0kiRp9rhQQsdzlE2 | |||
| 2/4 Non-duality is simple. Wiesen 07.2025 | 13 Sep 2025 | 09:04:37 | |
July 5th – 13th 2025. Non-duality is simple. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Retreathaus Berghof, Wiesen, Germany: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/berghof-2025/ James thought using Chapter 8 "The Direct Indication of Buddhahood beyond Classification, by Nuden Dorje" of his book "Simply Being" (available on Amazon): https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Simply-Being-Text-Chapter-8-Revised-31-05-2023.pdf The aim of this dzogchen retreat is to let go of our habitual involvement in the myriad forms of duality. In order to let go we need to sever the links between our erroneous sense of being a separate subject, our erroneous sense of there being separate real objects, and our erroneous grasping at occurrences as if they were the occurrence of something. ~ James Low Full transcript of these teachings: [soon] Full audio recordings of the retreat: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/retreats/germany/retreats-at-berghof/non-duality-is-simple-july-2025/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://youtu.be/xjjshKFgaKU?si=kfXTM2rvtg1WO-ku | |||
| 1/4 Non-duality is simple. Wiesen 07.2025 | 03 Sep 2025 | 09:48:38 | |
July 5th – 13th 2025. Non-duality is simple. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Retreathaus Berghof, Wiesen, Germany: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/berghof-2025/ James thought using Chapter 8 "The Direct Indication of Buddhahood beyond Classification, by Nuden Dorje" of his book "Simply Being" (available on Amazon): https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Simply-Being-Text-Chapter-8-Revised-31-05-2023.pdf The aim of this dzogchen retreat is to let go of our habitual involvement in the myriad forms of duality. In order to let go we need to sever the links between our erroneous sense of being a separate subject, our erroneous sense of there being separate real objects, and our erroneous grasping at occurrences as if they were the occurrence of something. ~ James Low Full transcript of these teachings: http://bit.ly/4ncixHr Full audio recordings of the retreat: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/retreats/germany/retreats-at-berghof/non-duality-is-simple-july-2025/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://youtu.be/6maahI3Hz1Q?si=k1oE2MvOSkoA_uxk | |||
| The View of Dzogchen. Macclesfield 11.2003 | 30 Aug 2025 | 05:30:27 | |
November 8th, 2003. The View of Dzogchen, in Macclesfield, UK. Full transcript of these teachings: http://bit.ly/3JzStri Audio file of this video: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/retreats/macclesfield-talks-1/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwUvddkUp_U | |||
| 2/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Portuguese | 23 Aug 2025 | 04:38:37 | |
Audiobook 'Buddha Shows the Way - A collection of public talks and teachings', by James Low and transtaled and spoken to Portuguese by Madalena PedrozaThis book contains a selection of edited public talks given by James Low. They cover a wide range of topics yet share a common theme: how to apply Buddhist teachings in our complex engagement with the modern world. We are all faced with ever increasing tasks of life maintenance as we struggle to cope with the profound impact of climate change, conflict, economic chaos, environmental and political instabilities. Moreover our own inner life is prey to habitual tendencies, impulses and blind spots so that our sense of the world is often more muddled than we imagine it to be.The Buddhist view encourages us to see the ungraspable illusory nature of every situation in order that we might avoid being buffeted by samsara's waves of hopes and fears. With this clarity our own potential can be turned towards the benefit of the many rather than towards individual selfish pursuits.The Buddha shows the way contains eighteen short chapters which can be read in any order so it is a book that can be dipped into according to your mood and time available.E-Book and paperback: https://www.amazon.com.br/Buddha-show...1/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Portuguese: • 1/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Po... 2/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Portuguese: • 2/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Po... (you are here)📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://youtu.be/FGCe5sxX-j8?si=x0YB8XwhxiAt_D97 | |||
| 1/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Portuguese | 23 Aug 2025 | 07:40:21 | |
Audiobook 'Buddha Shows the Way - A collection of public talks and teachings', by James Low and transtaled and spoken to Portuguese by Madalena Pedroza.This book contains a selection of edited public talks given by James Low. They cover a wide range of topics yet share a common theme: how to apply Buddhist teachings in our complex engagement with the modern world. We are all faced with ever increasing tasks of life maintenance as we struggle to cope with the profound impact of climate change, conflict, economic chaos, environmental and political instabilities. Moreover our own inner life is prey to habitual tendencies, impulses and blind spots so that our sense of the world is often more muddled than we imagine it to be.The Buddhist view encourages us to see the ungraspable illusory nature of every situation in order that we might avoid being buffeted by samsara's waves of hopes and fears. With this clarity our own potential can be turned towards the benefit of the many rather than towards individual selfish pursuits.The Buddha shows the way contains eighteen short chapters which can be read in any order so it is a book that can be dipped into according to your mood and time available.E-Book and paperback: https://www.amazon.com.br/Buddha-show...1/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Portuguese: • 1/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Po... (you are here)2/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Portuguese: • 2/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Po... 📱 Instagram of excerpts: / sbsangha_jameslow 🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://youtu.be/bKHLIiVc7LY?si=pkWusB7QatHnnywN | |||
| Open to Life: Emerson College, 16-21 June 2025, part 3 | 18 Aug 2025 | 00:49:27 | |
Life comes as it comes. We do not know what events will arise and impact us. Struggling to stay in charge of what is occurring is exhausting while letting events determine our situation is unwise. The Buddhist Middle Way indicates that we can rest in open awareness while avoiding the extremes of over-involvement and under-involvement. We will focus on the Dzogchen teachings of relaxing and releasing our habitual patterns of reactivity so that our participation is both spontaneous and precise – contactful, yet neither invading nor abandoning. Dates: 16-21 June 2025 Location: Emerson College, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5JX Talking: James Low Organiser: Huw Wyn Audio Recording: Gareth Williams Gareth initially prepared 3 taster sessions, 6/8/25 Original teachings published at https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/retreats/otherengland/emerson-college/open-to-life-emerson-college-16-21-june-2025/ | |||
| Open to Life: Emerson College, 16-21 June 2025, part 2 | 17 Aug 2025 | 01:28:05 | |
Life comes as it comes. We do not know what events will arise and impact us. Struggling to stay in charge of what is occurring is exhausting while letting events determine our situation is unwise. The Buddhist Middle Way indicates that we can rest in open awareness while avoiding the extremes of over-involvement and under-involvement. We will focus on the Dzogchen teachings of relaxing and releasing our habitual patterns of reactivity so that our participation is both spontaneous and precise – contactful, yet neither invading nor abandoning. Dates: 16-21 June 2025 Location: Emerson College, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5JX Talking: James Low Organiser: Huw Wyn Audio Recording: Gareth Williams Gareth initially prepared 3 taster sessions, 6/8/25 Original teachings published at https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/retreats/otherengland/emerson-college/open-to-life-emerson-college-16-21-june-2025/ | |||