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James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
James Low
235 episodes
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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. Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/
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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. Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/
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James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
The Deathless and the Dying. London 11.2025

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


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4 days ago
2 hours 28 minutes 44 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
1/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025

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


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5 days ago
9 hours 56 minutes 41 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
42 Questions & Answers. [EN-IT] Zoom 06.2025

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


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2 weeks ago
42 minutes 58 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
2/2 Tantra & Dzogchen. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2025

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



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3 weeks ago
7 hours 30 minutes 44 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
1/2 Tantra & Dzogchen. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2025

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

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1 month ago
8 hours 16 minutes 45 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
2/2 Indestructible freedom. [EN-ES] Barcelona 11.2018

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

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1 month ago
9 hours 18 minutes 26 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
1/2 Indestructible freedom. [EN-ES] Barcelona 11.2018

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


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1 month ago
9 hours 18 minutes 26 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
4/4 Non-duality is simple. Wiesen 07.2025

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


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1 month ago
6 hours 50 minutes 34 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
3/4 Non-duality is simple. Wiesen 07.2025

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

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2 months ago
8 hours 18 minutes 27 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
2/4 Non-duality is simple. Wiesen 07.2025

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

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2 months ago
9 hours 4 minutes 37 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
1/4 Non-duality is simple. Wiesen 07.2025


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

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2 months ago
9 hours 48 minutes 38 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
The View of Dzogchen. Macclesfield 11.2003

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

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2 months ago
5 hours 30 minutes 27 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
2/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Portuguese

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

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2 months ago
4 hours 38 minutes 37 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
1/2 Audiobook "Buddha Shows the Way" in Portuguese

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

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2 months ago
7 hours 40 minutes 21 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
Open to Life: Emerson College, 16-21 June 2025, part 3

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/

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3 months ago
49 minutes 27 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
Open to Life: Emerson College, 16-21 June 2025, part 2

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/

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3 months ago
1 hour 28 minutes 5 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
Open to Life: Emerson College, 16-21 June 2025, part 1

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/

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3 months ago
1 hour 24 minutes

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
43 Questions & Answers. [EN-DE] Zoom 07.2025

July 2nd 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer.


1) I am a US citizen seriously dismayed by the current state of politics particularly in the US. I am so upset by the prospects that I completely exclude all news and refrain from discussions on the topic. Withdrawing in this way is good for my blood pressure but is it wise to withdraw to this degree?

2) James says the guru yoga of the White A is enough yet he also describes the bo??. So do I need to do more to prepare myself for that?

3) If I do the guru yoga of the White A, the energy of the practice tends to linger with me. I prefer to just sit without this structure. What is the difference between elaborated and unelaborated forms of open sitting?

4) When recognizing a strong dislike for something or someone, what would be a skillful way on the relative level to manage this to continue to engage with the person or situation or to simply move away?

5) We can discover the nature of the mind in the gap between the object which is perceived as external and the consciousness which perceives that object. However, when a thought arises, we perceive it immediately without a gap. Thought is consciousness. The object and the subject are inseparable. Could you please explain how to free thoughts?


English: youtu.be/090SUATHtAo

English (without silence cuts): youtu.be/lVuU-5T6NmY

German: youtu.be/Vc6xmCDJIRQ (you are here)

Russian: youtu.be/PSL516QWrGw

Polish: youtu.be/iU7FkxSM47c

Spanish: youtu.be/U1FF_2nFhv4

Portuguese: youtu.be/pT-NQkZhtbI

Romanian: youtu.be/HdJIpaIuq1M

Turkish: [soon]


German translation: Robert Jaroslawski


Playlist “Questions & Answers. [EN-DE] Zoom 07.2020 –”: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv-KZQo9b6hQorJJB5YwaksSq90Z8mTeQ


📱 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=Vc6xmCDJIRQ


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3 months ago
1 hour 34 minutes 13 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
43 Questions & Answers. [EN-RU] Zoom 07.2025


July 2nd 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer.


1) I am a US citizen seriously dismayed by the current state of politics particularly in the US. I am so upset by the prospects that I completely exclude all news and refrain from discussions on the topic. Withdrawing in this way is good for my blood pressure but is it wise to withdraw to this degree?

2) James says the guru yoga of the White A is enough yet he also describes the bo??. So do I need to do more to prepare myself for that?

3) If I do the guru yoga of the White A, the energy of the practice tends to linger with me. I prefer to just sit without this structure. What is the difference between elaborated and unelaborated forms of open sitting?

4) When recognizing a strong dislike for something or someone, what would be a skillful way on the relative level to manage this to continue to engage with the person or situation or to simply move away?

5) We can discover the nature of the mind in the gap between the object which is perceived as external and the consciousness which perceives that object. However, when a thought arises, we perceive it immediately without a gap. Thought is consciousness. The object and the subject are inseparable. Could you please explain how to free thoughts?


English: youtu.be/090SUATHtAo

English (without silence cuts): youtu.be/lVuU-5T6NmY

German: youtu.be/Vc6xmCDJIRQ

Russian: youtu.be/PSL516QWrGw (you are here)

Polish: youtu.be/iU7FkxSM47c

Spanish: youtu.be/U1FF_2nFhv4

Portuguese: youtu.be/pT-NQkZhtbI

Romanian: youtu.be/HdJIpaIuq1M

Turkish: [soon]


Russian translation: Marina Samarina


Playlist “Вопросы и Ответы. [RU] Zoom 04.2023 –”: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv-KZQo9b6hR-O5pCcz4jrfHv5eRKsMqU



📱 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=PSL516QWrGw


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3 months ago
1 hour 25 minutes 46 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
43 Questions & Answers. [EN-ES] Zoom 07.2025


July 2nd 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer.


1) I am a US citizen seriously dismayed by the current state of politics particularly in the US. I am so upset by the prospects that I completely exclude all news and refrain from discussions on the topic. Withdrawing in this way is good for my blood pressure but is it wise to withdraw to this degree?

2) James says the guru yoga of the White A is enough yet he also describes the bo??. So do I need to do more to prepare myself for that?

3) If I do the guru yoga of the White A, the energy of the practice tends to linger with me. I prefer to just sit without this structure. What is the difference between elaborated and unelaborated forms of open sitting?

4) When recognizing a strong dislike for something or someone, what would be a skillful way on the relative level to manage this to continue to engage with the person or situation or to simply move away?

5) We can discover the nature of the mind in the gap between the object which is perceived as external and the consciousness which perceives that object. However, when a thought arises, we perceive it immediately without a gap. Thought is consciousness. The object and the subject are inseparable. Could you please explain how to free thoughts?


English: youtu.be/090SUATHtAo

English (without silence cuts): youtu.be/lVuU-5T6NmY

German: youtu.be/Vc6xmCDJIRQ

Russian: youtu.be/PSL516QWrGw

Polish: youtu.be/iU7FkxSM47c

Spanish: youtu.be/U1FF_2nFhv4 (you are here)

Portuguese: youtu.be/pT-NQkZhtbI

Romanian: youtu.be/HdJIpaIuq1M

Turkish: [soon]


Spanish translation: Juan García Lázaro ( @juanb.garcialazaro )


Playlist “Preguntas & Respuestas. [EN-ES] Zoom 07.2020 –”: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv-KZQo9b6hS7c0fyRpIUppfblqzUKho2


📱 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=U1FF_2nFhv4


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3 months ago
1 hour 30 minutes 18 seconds

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
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. Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/