All times refer to London time, unless otherwise stated.

Q and A [31]. Zoom, May 2024

Zoom

James Low 6pm to 7:30 pm (London Time) https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter With German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish translation. Please send your questions now to Milton at simplybeingsangha gmail com and he will forward them to James. If you send your questions in advance this gives him a chance to think about them and see if any common themes emerge. Registrations are available here. Those [...]

Awakening to the Nature of the Mind. Retreat, Wilga, May 2024

Wilga, Ciamma Ling Centre Ligmincha Polska, aleja Huberta 4, Wilga, Poland

Awakening to the Nature of the Mind This teaching retreat will focus on awakening to awareness and we will use the text The Direct Indication of Buddhahood beyond Classification which is a treasure text revealed by CR Lama's first incarnation, Nuden Dorje. It is Chapter 8 in the book Simply Being.  The revised version of the text (in Polish and [...]

Limitation is a Dream within the Ever-Open. Teaching retreat, Seville, 2024

Seville-Huelva s/n  Salesianos Sanlúcar la Mayor, Casa de Espiritualidad Juvenil Juan XXIII, Crta., Sevilla, Carr. Sevilla-Huelva, Spain

Limitation is a Dream within the Ever-Open. This 5 day retreat will focus on The Aspiration of Samantabhadra, a famous Tibetan text which clarifies the nature of the primordial ground and the two paths which arise from it. These are the paths of confusion and limitation and the path of liberation. There will be a clear introduction to the nature [...]

Q and A [32]. Zoom, June 2024

Zoom

James Low 6pm to 7:30 pm (London Time) https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter With German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish translation. Please send your questions now to Milton at simplybeingsangha gmail com and he will forward them to James. If you send your questions in advance this gives him a chance to think about them and see if any common themes emerge. Registrations are available here. Those [...]

Always already present! Dzogchen summer retreat. Emerson College, 2024

Emerson College Hartfield Road, Forest Row, East Sussex, United Kingdom

The intrinsic is always already present! James Low will be leading this four day retreat. The focus is on directly opening to our mind as it is. Our intrinsic presence is not created by others, by our own effort, or by circumstances. It is not a construct and it is not like anything we know. By dis-identifying with our constructive [...]

Q and A [33]. Zoom, July 2024

Zoom

James Low 6pm to 7:30 pm (London Time) https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter With German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish translation. Please send your questions now to Milton at simplybeingsangha gmail com and he will forward them to James. If you send your questions in advance this gives him a chance to think about them and see if any common themes emerge. Registrations are available here. Those [...]

The Practice of Meditation. Teaching Retreat, Berghof, 2024

Berghof, Retreathaus Retreathaus Berghof e. V. Am Berg 1 D-63831 Wiesen (Spessart) / Germany, Wiesen, Spessart, Germany

The Practice of Meditation. This 9 day Retreat will focus on two texts: The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal and Notes on Mahamudra by Padma Karpo. These texts show us how to identify and respond to the many kinds of obstacles that can occur in practice. The aim of the retreat is to enable us to maintain calm, clear [...]

Berlin, Oct 2024

James will be in Berlin teaching on the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra from 10-13 October 2024. Please contact the organiser for details.

Dependent arising. Teaching retreat. Todtmoos, 17-20 Oct 2024

Todtmoos, Haus am Mühlenbach Mühlematt 6,, Todtmoos, Todtmoos-Au, Germany

Dependent arising (Please note, This retreat is now full, 10 April 2024. The Organiser can put you on a waiting list in case there are any cancellations.) The myth that the autonomous ego is master of one's own destiny is a delusion that leads to lack of cooperation, conflict and lonely isolation. The Buddha gave us many opportunities to see [...]

Your Mind is Mahamudra. Zoom Talk hosted by Tibethaus, Nov 2024

FRIDAY 8th. NOVEMBER 2024 Your Mind is Mahamudra! Zoom-Teaching | James Low We are used to thinking about things and trying to work out what is going on. This is how we have been educated. However Mahamudra points to the intrinsic capacity of our mind to instantly and intuitively respond to whatever occurs without entering into dualistic thought production. We will explore [...]

Take it easy. Teaching Retreat. Veciana Nov 2024

Casal la Salle Carretera de Calaf a Sant Guim, Veciana, Barcelona, Spain

Take It Easy           This retreat will focus on relaxing our reliance on habitual patterns of dualistic involvement so that the self-liberation of all experience becomes clear.  We will go through Patrul Rinpoche’s short text Self-Liberating Understanding which is Chapter 10 in the book Simply Being. There will be Spanish translation of the teaching. The text will [...]