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• 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.
  

• Download of The Seven Chapters of Prayer

  21/04/2010
  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.
  

• 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