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

  03/11/2011
  "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?

  10/10/2011
  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

  31/07/2011
  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?

  30/07/2011
  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!

  18/07/2011
  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 Español

  13/04/2011
  Thanks to the energy and hard work of Marta Pérez-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, Aquí y ahora and Simplemente Ser.
  

• Video: What is Dzogchen?

  05/04/2011
  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

  21/01/2011
  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

  01/01/2011
  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

  16/11/2010
  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

  16/11/2010
  

  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

  15/11/2010
  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.

  15/11/2010
  

  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

  14/11/2010
  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 Féat for transcribing two new retreats.

  20/08/2010
  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

  07/07/2010
  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

  16/06/2010
  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

  24/05/2010
  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

  21/04/2010
  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.

  22/03/2010
  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

  13/03/2010
  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.

  22/02/2010
  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

  01/02/2010
  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

  23/01/2010
  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

  09/11/2009
  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

  09/11/2009
  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: trésor du dzogchen

  01/11/2009
  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

  23/09/2009
  Sameness and Difference: Buddhist and Western Understanding of Identification.
  

• The Structures of Suffering, 1999

  02/07/2009
  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

  23/06/2009
  There are three new transcripts on the website. One is a translation into German by Kurt Rabitsch of Creativity and Meditation. Thank you, Kurt.
  

• Bycé Guru Rinpocze. New! A Polish translation of Being Guru Rinpoche

  04/05/2009
  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

  30/11/1999