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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.
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- 3 days ago9h 9m
1/2 The Simple Ease of Presence. [EN-ES] Veciana 09-10.2026
The Simple Ease of Presence (Part 1 of 2) This episode comes from the Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Casa la Salle, Veciana (Barcelona), Spain, held 28 September – 4 October 2026. The teachings were given in English with consecutive translation into Spanish. James writes: "The focus of the retreat is on opening to the intrinsic purity of the mind as it is. This purity is not improved by our virtuous efforts, nor impaired by our bad habits." Spanish translators: Mariana Orozco and María Lleó Retreat details: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/the-simple-ease-of-presence-veciana-2026/ More resources Podcasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow Future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Cover video art: Ruslan Sikunov, via Pexels.com Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm8mUldxOp0 Chapters 00:00 María Lleó • 28 September 2026 1:11:42 Mariana Orozco • 29 September 2026 2:50:07 María Lleó • 29 September 2026 4:30:37 Mariana Orozco • 30 September 2026 6:03:55 María Lleó • 30 September 2026 7:32:44 Mariana Orozco • 1 October 2026
- 1 weeks ago3h 2m
4/4 Taking your ease where you are always welcome. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 08.2026
4/4 Taking your ease where you are always welcome. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 08.2026 Part 4 of 4 from a Dzogchen retreat with James Low, held 1st–12th August 2026 at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. The teachings were given in English with consecutive translation into Portuguese and Spanish. James writes: "We will focus on opening to our minds as they actually are, free of conceptual covering. We will meditate, communicate and participate in various activities bring us ever-closer to the here-and-now." The retreat followed a new style of timetable. James taught in the morning. In the afternoon there were small practice groups and activities such as drama and movement, led by experienced sangha members. This was designed to make James's work easier and to encourage active participation in learning. Translators Portuguese: Madalena Pedroza and Milton Petruczok Spanish: Mariana Orozco and Juan García Lázaro Links Retreat details: simplybeing.co.uk Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/3VYVuHT Podcasts of some teachings: simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts Future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events Instagram of excerpts: SBSangha_JamesLow Cover video art: Matthias Groeneveld, via Pexels.com Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFWFKlKQkkA Chapters 00:00 Juan García Lázaro (ES) • 11 August 2026 1:38:35 Madalena Pedroza (PT) • 12 August 2026
- 2 weeks ago8h 41m
3/4 Taking your ease where you are always welcome. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 08.2026
3/4 Taking your ease where you are always welcome. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 08.2026 This is part 3 of 4 from the Dzogchen retreat "Taking your ease where you are always welcome" with James Low. The retreat took place from 1st to 12th August 2026 at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal, with consecutive translation into Portuguese and Spanish. James writes: "We will focus on opening to our minds as they actually are, free of conceptual covering. We will meditate, communicate and participate in various activities bring us ever-closer to the here-and-now." The retreat followed a new timetable. James taught in the morning. In the afternoon there were small practice groups and activities such as drama and movement, led by experienced sangha members. This is designed to make James's work easier and to encourage active participation in learning. Translators Portuguese: Madalena Pedroza and Milton Petruczok Spanish: Mariana Orozco and Juan García Lázaro Links Retreat information: simplybeing.co.uk Audio recording: https://bit.ly/4zOoYql Podcasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ Future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/ Instagram of excerpts: SBSangha_JamesLow Cover video art: Matthias Groeneveld, via Pexels.com Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npHxBKLOYZM Chapters 00:00 Juan García Lázaro (ES) • 9 August 2026 15:13 Releasing clinging with the sound A or phat 28:40 Ageing and the changing permeability of the body 38:42 The ego as an exile who has forgotten home 47:17 Self-reference limits empathy for others 57:49 Looking at the one who looks 1:09:18 The five skandhas and the kaleidoscope of the person 1:21:20 Blessing in ordinary life: Padmasambhava and Christ 1:31:29 Milton Petruczok (PT) • 9 August 2026 1:45:37 Practising in a peaceful, isolated place 2:00:07 Your true home is the mind itself 2:16:55 Precious human birth, freedoms and opportunities 2:29:39 Valuing people by usefulness leads to abuse 2:39:32 Sitting naturally without manipulating body or breath 2:49:50 Mariana Orozco (ES) • 9 August 2026 3:03:53 Explaining and taking the bodhisattva vows 3:20:59 Aspirations of a child of the Buddhas 3:33:46 Supporting indigenous peoples between two worlds 3:53:39 Madalena Pedroza (PT) • 10 August 2026 3:58:01 Trauma, disturbance and working with the body 4:17:03 Our many inner voices like an orchestra without conductor 4:29:04 Self and no-self in Hindu and Buddhist views 4:45:13 All names are placed on reality by the mind 4:55:58 Watching thought dissolve back into silence 5:05:25 Blue cloth and crystal: appearance without substance 5:13:21 Five poisons purified as five wisdoms and Buddha families 5:29:59 Juan García Lázaro (ES) • 10 August 2026 5:41:28 Knowing and not knowing: the first stage of ignorance 5:56:08 Second stage: dualistic consciousness and co-emergence 6:06:05 Third stage: naming and fixing identity 6:23:39 Third level of ignorance: ego defining the object 6:36:31 The deadly power of definition and being defined by others 6:54:46 Madalena Pedroza (PT) • 10 August 2026 7:02:52 Padmasambhava images to consecrate for each continent 7:14:40 Milton Petruczok (PT) • 11 August 2026
- 3 weeks ago10h 2m
2/4 Taking your ease where you are always welcome. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 08.2026
Taking your ease where you are always welcome (Part 2 of 4) This is the second of four recordings from a Dzogchen retreat with James Low, held 1st–12th August 2026 at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. The teachings were given with consecutive translation into Portuguese and Spanish. James writes: "We will focus on opening to our minds as they actually are, free of conceptual covering. We will meditate, communicate and participate in various activities bring us ever-closer to the here-and-now." The retreat followed a new style of timetable. James taught in the morning. In the afternoon there were small practice groups and activities such as drama and movement, led by experienced sangha members. This was designed both to make James's work easier and to encourage active participation in learning. Translators Portuguese: Madalena Pedroza and Milton Petruczok Spanish: Mariana Orozco and Juan García Lázaro Links Retreat event page Podcasts of some teachings Future events Instagram of excerpts Cover video art: Matthias Groeneveld, via Pexels.com Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAnOdFUxQwg
- Oct 9, 202610h 18m
1/4 Taking your ease where you are always welcome. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 08.2026
1/4 Taking your ease where you are always welcome. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 08.2026 Part 1 of 4 from the Dzogchen retreat with James Low, "Taking your ease where you are always welcome," held 1st-12th August 2026 at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. The teachings were given with consecutive translation into Portuguese and Spanish. James writes: "We will focus on opening to our minds as they actually are, free of conceptual covering. We will meditate, communicate and participate in various activities bring us ever-closer to the here-and-now. The retreat will have a new style of timetable with James teaching in the morning and then in the afternoon there will be small practice groups and a range of activities such as drama and movement led by experienced sangha members. This is designed to both make James's work easier and to encourage active participation in learning." Retreat information: Event page Translators: Portuguese: Madalena Pedroza and Milton Petruczok Spanish: Mariana Orozco and Juan García Lázaro Credits: Cover video art: Matthias Groeneveld, via Pexels.com More resources: Instagram of excerpts Podcasts of some teachings Future events Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O32vkOYOoaU
- Oct 3, 20268h 18m
Dissolving Obscurations in the Innate Openness of Presence. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2026
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."~ James Low CreditsPolish translation: Bartek CzajkowskiCamera: Olaf BrockmannRetreat organised by Olga Maj, Jagoda Tobota, Konrad Świtała and Robert Hnat LinksRetreat event pageAudio recordings of this retreatPodcasts of some teachingsFuture eventsInstagram of excerpts Watch the original video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0tOnuUhFdg Chapters 00:00 Why are we here? Reflecting on intention and Dzogchen as freedom 07:31 Thoughts, mind and the search for the thinker 18:17 Choices, habitual formations and the limited field of knowing 29:03 Hierarchies of meaning and the ego as interpretive system 36:19 Buddha's four sights and the eight worldly concerns 45:57 Buddha's six years of striving and awakening under the tree 1:02:56 Arising and dissolving of appearances; non-artificial presence 1:14:26 Buddha's awakening, emptiness and dependent origination 1:23:23 Gradual teachings, Buddha as doctor and trusting thoughts 1:37:48 Language, names and constancy as constructed 1:52:13 Situational nature of experience: water and ice example 1:57:44 Perceiving others in public space versus objectifying them 2:07:58 Naming, defining and shifting identity in samsara 2:16:53 Airport in Warsaw: experience as projection, not a thing 2:23:57 Am I a thing? Definitions received from education 2:29:09 Refuge and the bodhisattva vow to help all beings 2:35:50 Judging others and turning variety into hierarchy 2:47:58 Seven-line prayer and indebtedness to all beings 2:56:10 Light dissolving body, speech and mind into the ball of light 3:07:55 Why we rely on the guru: dissolution of subject and object 3:17:19 Mind as it is: cataract and lamp examples 3:28:13 Properties of the base; presence versus consciousness 3:36:04 Self-arising presence is free from concepts: the tea example 4:09:41 Origin of delusion: lack of presence of the base 4:16:26 Lack of presence and the dissolution practice into light 4:25:36 Water and ice: fixation and the sense of a separate self 4:39:30 Primordial trauma and forgetting the source 4:45:52 Practising from vulnerability: Padma light and dissolving 4:58:07 Absorbing the meaning of the text into oneself 5:07:56 First obscuration: the five poisons 5:13:05 Second obscuration: conceptual knowing 5:23:15 Invasion and abandonment, opacity and the separate self 5:29:09 Freedom of choice and the ego's need for privacy 5:39:37 Co-emergent presence and co-emergent ignorance 5:52:59 Naming and labelling as an act of power 6:03:44 Six realms of samsara and karma as a trace
- Oct 3, 20265 min
The Illusion of Perception
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 00:00 Phenomena arise and pass: we see light, not the wall 03:24 Hearing sound: we organize it through our templates
- Sep 27, 20266h 37m
The Integration of Stillness and Movement: the approach of different buddhist paths. Eifel 10.2001
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: Stillness and movement The Four Basic Reflections: back to basics Precious human birth Impermanence and death Karma Ice or water, depending on the conditions Going it alone Samsara: banging into things Taking refuge Resources: Transcription on Dang-wa, Rol-Pa and Tsal Transcription on the four basic reflections and refuge Full transcript Audio recording Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5IOUHAwWvw Chapters 00:00 Observing the mind and its movements 10:34 Precious human birth 18:27 Fragmentation of self and the creation of karma 29:13 Death and the continuation of awareness 34:16 Samsara and fluidity: ice and water as metaphor 43:22 Purification as preparation for death 59:20 Balancing energy through diet and daily habits 1:10:55 Betraying the Buddha nature in ordinary experience 1:17:16 Phenomenology of existence versus the stories we tell 1:23:34 The need to relax in practice 1:31:30 Space as the ground of all elements 1:37:09 Relaxing into space versus wind 1:44:23 Machig Labdrön practice: structure and purpose 1:51:02 The necessity of devotion in tantra 1:56:56 Recognizing awareness free of subject and object 2:29:45 Questions and housekeeping 2:34:58 Articulating the process of becoming caught in thought 2:41:31 Thought as ornament: the dharmakaya to sambhogakaya 2:49:53 The ego eats thought 3:02:56 Using deity practice to transform samsaric identity 3:09:13 Samaya: the commitment to maintain practice 3:23:19 The meaning of great happiness (dewa) in tantra 3:30:15 Pure vision and the recognition of fault in Dzogchen 3:39:53 Recognizing one's own nature (ngo rang drol) 3:49:09 The mind is not conditioned by human existence 3:55:45 Investigating how we create our own entanglement 4:09:25 Commitment in tantra versus flexibility in Dzogchen 4:15:30 Distinguishing sacred practice from superstition 4:20:10 The three statements of Garab Dorje 4:35:19 Chöd: the practice of cutting attachment 4:43:23 Cutting attachment to the body in meditation 4:49:37 The visualization of offering the body 4:55:44 The dharmakaya visualization in Chöd 5:01:58 Clarifying the view: beyond thought and expression 5:16:26 Working with fear in meditation 5:22:15 Walking meditation: mindfulness and presence 5:35:51 The Eight Consciousnesses and the Root of Ignorance 5:42:30 Practicing Purification Without Judging What Arises 5:51:46 Lhundrup and rangdrol: instant arising and self-liberation 5:59:47 Receiving Compliments and Insults Without Losing Awareness 6:04:48 Dang, Rolpa and Tsal: The Three Modes of Energy 6:11:52 Tsal: particularities of manifestation and the crystal 6:18:33 Spontaneous activity and leaving no trace 6:30:20 Practicing when tired as preparation for death
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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.
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