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James Low will be teaching in Geneva (Switzerland) on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of February 2013

Thu 13 Dec 2012 12:12

The weekend will start on Friday evening with a talk entitled \\\"Finding freedom in the midst of complexity: a buddhist approach to staying relaxed and open in modern life\\\". On Saturday and Sunday, James will teach and give meditation instructions (op

What is Love? An interview

Tue 11 Dec 2012 12:12

Guido Ferrari again interviewed James, this time on the topic of \\\\\\\"What is Love?\\\\\\\". The video has been uploaded on Vimeo.

Focussing and Distraction

Tue 31 Jul 2012 12:07

There is a new transcript of a teaching James gave in 2004 in Macclesfield, called \"Focussing and Distraction\". James revised some of the original transcript, which was edited by Wendy Bates.

Click here to watch Two New Videos uploaded on vimeo.com.

Sun 1 Jul 2012 12:07

Both are teachings given in Freiburg with Robert Jarolawski translating. Healing and the Five Elements, 2012. What Buddhism means by Compassion and How to Apply it in Daily Life, 2005.

Poems. Tired of myself and longing for you

Mon 25 Jun 2012 12:06

There is a new poem on the website. There are also some earlier poems list on the website

Translations of Prayers

Sun 11 Mar 2012 12:03

When HH Dudjom Rinpoche was giving many initiations of kama and terma in Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal in 1977-78, C R Lama and James Low translated a number of prayers. There are now revised and here on the website.

Macclesfield 2003 teaching edited by Wendy Bates and called Finding Freedom at the Bus Stop.

Mon 13 Feb 2012 12:02

There is no rulebook that tells you how to live; we are all flying by the seat of our pants. In this situation it�s best to keep your eyes open, your ears open, and your heart open. Of course, sometimes you will get it wrong but there is no point in being

Polish and Greek translations of poems

Sun 12 Feb 2012 12:02

Magdalena Kaniewska�-Matulewicz has translated three of James\' poems into Polish so these now join the Spanish, German and Greek translations.

Petra has been busy too

Sun 12 Feb 2012 12:02

Petra Niehaus has just translated two texts into German, the Eifel Autumn 2005 teaching �ber Angst�On Anxiety�and the 2011 paper James wrote on Duty, Discipline and Determination�Verpflichtung, Disziplin, Entschlossenheit.

James Low in Poznań, POLAND 4th May - 6th May

Sun 1 Jan 2012 12:01

\\\"FINDING FREEDOM WHERE YOU ARE\\\" For any questions contact: Marek: 601715644, Kompas: 506 959 384 Michal: 507 489 871 or by email: jameslowpoznan1@gmail.com

ΑΦΗΝΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΚΟΜΠΟΥΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΥΣ. A first Greek translation, by Dora Kapsala

Thu 3 Nov 2011 12:11

"Detectives are trained to be suspicious, to resist the temptation to be taken in by accepting evidence and stories at face value. Psychotherapy and dharma are also concerned with the exploration of cover ups..."

Herr Low, was ist dzogchen?

Mon 10 Oct 2011 12:10

Daniel Beierstettel decided to translate into German the interview which Guido Ferrari did with James in 2006. You can read this on the Transcripts page or,

Watch it.

New Book. Radiant Aspiration: the Butterlamp Prayer Lamp of Aspiration

Sun 31 Jul 2011 12:07

Chimed Rigdzin Rinpoche offered 100,000 butterlamps every year while reciting this prayer which he composed and James translated and commented on. The book includes an easy-to-read Recitation Format.

Perhaps you can help?

Sat 30 Jul 2011 12:07

If you find the transcripts, audios and videos on this website useful please think about letting other people know. Plus the books James has written. How about you writing a book review on Amazon. Use Facebook? Other ideas? Thank you. Barbara.

Benvenuti alla prima traduzione italiana on the website!

Mon 18 Jul 2011 12:07

Dzogchen in Everyday life (Cologne, 2005), the first transcript uploaded here, now appears in Italian to join English, German, Polish & Spanish versions already there. Thanks to Rita Gastaldi for translating & Nanni Deambrogio for helping make it happen.

Spanish Castellano Espa�ol

Wed 13 Apr 2011 12:04

Thanks to the energy and hard work of Marta P�rez-Yarza, Isabel and Maria Vidarte and others there are now several talks transcribed, edited and translated into Spanish on the website as well as two books, Aqu� y ahora and Simplemente Ser.

Video: What is Dzogchen?

Tue 5 Apr 2011 12:04

Guido Ferrari interviews James in Todtmoos, June 2006 and asks what is dzogchen, what does it mean and how should we live with this awareness.

Watch it.

Download of The Seven Chapters of Prayer

Fri 21 Jan 2011 12:01

In 2008, editions khordong published The Seven Chapters of Prayer, known in Tibetan as the Le'u bDun Ma (or Soldeb Leu Dunma). It is being freely offered here as a download. It can still of course be purchased at http://www.wandel-verlag.de/en/.

Video and Audio Recordings Home Page

Sat 1 Jan 2011 12:01

Kurt has re-organised the menu with a page for sound and video recordings. Hopefully this collection can grow and develop with the help of Krishna and others.

Click here.

Simply Being. Third Revised Edition Now In Print

Tue 16 Nov 2010 12:11

Many people have asked when this classic would be back in print, and now it is, thanks in part to Martin Klopstock and other helpers. To buy a copy through this website, go to 'Books' on the top menu bar, scroll to 'Simply Being' and click on 'English'.

Video. Meditation Calm and Clear. Freiburg, Germany, 2006

Tue 16 Nov 2010 12:11

Click to see James giving a public talk at the Tibet Kailash Centre in Freiburg.

Translation into German by Robert Jaroslawsk. Filmed and edited by Krishna Beutel.

Video. Dzogchen and Music. James and Robert Jaroslawski translating and playing Oud

Mon 15 Nov 2010 12:11

This little video clip of some teachings of James' has been realised by Krishna (aka Siegfried Beutel).

Sit back, enjoy the music and meditate!

Another video. Confusion is part of the process of clarification. Mindfulness: theory and practice.

Mon 15 Nov 2010 12:11

Click to see James speaking at a Mindfulness Conference in Poland.

One of the organisers was Magda Linca. Thanks again to Krishna.

Gleichheit und Verschiedenheit, Freiburg 2007

Sun 14 Nov 2010 12:11

Thanks to Julia Dreyer for translating into German the public talk James gave on a Buddhist and a Western understanding of identification.

Thanks to Jo F�at for transcribing two new retreats.

Fri 20 Aug 2010 12:08

Eifel Autumn retreat 2005, a commentary on Garab Dorje's Three Points. Interesting & intriguing metaphors plus a final section on Anxiety. 105 pages! Bilbao Dzogchen retreat includes various 3 Aa practices and a unique Movement exercise.

Buddhismus und Psychotherapie

Wed 7 Jul 2010 12:07

Stephan Schneider has translated into German this old favourite from a 1993 seminar in Berlin. Why, having been tortured in one situation, do we go back to the same place to be hurt again, in exactly the same way? I see this repetition a lot in the clinic

Tajemna Bigrafia Maczik Labdron

Wed 16 Jun 2010 12:06

Joanna Janiszewska-Rain has translated another text into Polish for James. This time it is a chapter of a book, already on the website as The Secret Biography of Machig Labdron.

Alternative Polish translation of Being Guru Rinpoche

Mon 24 May 2010 12:05

Magdalena and Witek Kaniewska-Matulewicz have also translated Being Guru Rinpoche into Polish and this version they make freely available here for people to download in PDF format.

Much Ado about Nothing

Wed 21 Apr 2010 12:04

Scroll to the bottom of the www.simplybeing.co.uk home page to watch the short film Rainer Schader made, inspired by a cartoon already on the Simply Being website. Use Firefox browser.

Letting the knots go free.

Mon 22 Mar 2010 12:03

Uncovering, Discovering and Recovering. Exploring key themes in buddhism and psychotherapy to illuminate their differing notions of what is being covered up, the styles of response to this, and where they lead.

Trusting Yourself. Eifel Retreat. Spring 2009

Sat 13 Mar 2010 12:03

Tobias Roeder prepared this transcript of the first evening of the Eifel retreat. "Think of how seaweed moves with the ocean waves tumbling and turning it. Seaweed doesn�t get knotted, because it just keeps moving in the currents."

Mit frischen Augen sehen. Mannheim, 2009.

Mon 22 Feb 2010 12:02

Thanks to Daniel Beierstettel for translating into German the public talk already on the website as "Looking with fresh eyes".

Looking with fresh eyes: quitting samsara's storyboard

Mon 1 Feb 2010 12:02

When we sit inside our story, we can weave these threads of continuity... But when we look directly at the phenomenology - at the moment by moment movement - we find there is nothing substantial there. This is the point where meditation really opens up.

Two new translations into German

Sat 23 Jan 2010 12:01

Thanks to Petra Niehaus and Jutta Kerpen for translating into German some material already on this site in English. More translating is in progress.

Integration in Dzogchen. Freiburg, 2009

Mon 9 Nov 2009 12:11

Many people see spiritual life a bit like the fairytale of Sleeping Beauty �where all beings are a Sleeping Buddha, wrapped around by different kinds of conditioning and karma, but drawing our holy sword of truth, we will cut through and liberate them.

New Photos in the banner

Mon 9 Nov 2009 12:11

Kurt has loaded five new photos taken by Marlis into the banner carousel. See if you can spot them? They represent some of the art workshops she does in nature. Thank you, Kurt. Thank you, Marlis.

Le Miroir au Sens Limpide: tr�sor du dzogchen

Sun 1 Nov 2009 12:11

Nathalie has been a devoted and close disciple of C R Lama's for many years. She has translated this text, known in English as Being Right Here, and arranged its publication. Thank you, Nathalie

New transcript - Sameness and difference

Wed 23 Sep 2009 12:09

Sameness and Difference: Buddhist and Western Understanding of Identification.

The Structures of Suffering, 1999

Thu 2 Jul 2009 12:07

Some text was missing from this, so thank you to the observant reader who puzzled over this. Also the original drawings have been restored as they were more clear.

New Transcripts - Open, Empty and Endless

Tue 23 Jun 2009 12:06

There are three new transcripts on the website. One is a translation into German by Kurt Rabitsch of Creativity and Meditation. Thank you, Kurt.

Byc� Guru Rinpocze. New! A Polish translation of Being Guru Rinpoche

Mon 4 May 2009 12:05

This is the second of James' books translated into Polish by Joanna Janiszewska Rain and published by Wydawnictwo NORBU (April 2009). For more information see http://norbu.pl and email info@norbu.pl

Thanks to Rita Gastaldi

Tue 30 Nov 1999 12:11