James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings

James Low
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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/

  1. All at Once. [EN-TR] Izmir 10.2025

    23H AGO

    All at Once. [EN-TR] Izmir 10.2025

    10th - 14th October 2025. All at Once. Teaching and Meditation retreat led by James Low at Şirince Village, Selçuk, in İzmir, Turkey. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/all-at-once-teaching-retreat-izmir-oct-2025/ PS: This recording contains only the second half of the retreat. Organised by Mustafa Mert Çelebi, Sevgi Çakıcı and Trevor Brown. The focus of this retreat is seeing how we limit our potential by hanging on to habits and impulses which do not function well in the world in which we find ourselves. Dzogchen, the Great Completion, is the heart of Tibetan Buddhism and it offers us a way to release ourselves from the limiting ideas that we have of ourselves so that the freshness of our simple presence can illuminate our life in a new way. These teachings and practices help us to see the fleeting nature of all experience. With this clarity we can let go of our habit of effortful striving to solidify the flow of experience. This approach to life offers us a profound choice. Either we can continue to objectify whatever occurs so that we can name it and try to shape it to fit our sense of how we want our life to be. Or we can relax and open to being part of the flow, gently influencing how we emerge as part of the circumstances we encounter. This latter approach frees us from the need to verify and analyse so that we can enjoy the freshness of each and every moment. This short retreat will introduce us to the essence of the view of Dzogchen and facilitate how we can enter into direct experience of non-dual co-emergence. There will be periods of teaching and of meditation practice. Referred text: 'Prayer Evocation of Kuntuzangpo', availabel in English, Spanish and Portuguese: https://bit.ly/4tpWxwz Turkish translation: Mustafa Mert Çelebi Cover art: Taryn Elliott (Pexels.com) 📱 Instagram of excerpts: instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7syJlFOJeU

    4h 6m
  2. Equanimity - Finding balance in a turbulent world. Macclesfield 02.2019

    FEB 7

    Equanimity - Finding balance in a turbulent world. Macclesfield 02.2019

    22-24 February 2019. Equanimity - Finding balance in a turbulent world. James Low conducted these teaching weekend for the Kun-Pan Ling Buddhist group in Macclesfield, UK. Attempts to withdraw from turbulence or to control the mind are actions which increase our sense of separation. The mahayana view looks at how our mind is, rather than focusing on its impermanent contents. In the meditation we seek to open to that which is stable, an invitation, an explanation and a practice. ~ James Low Recorded by Charles Lomas and Gareth Williams. Transcript of the retreat: https://bit.ly/4rtBask Audio recording of the retreat: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-recordings/retreats/macclesfield-talk-no-20-equanimity/ Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/ 📱 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=pqyJZ-bwCYA

  3. 1/4 Take it easy. Veciana 09-10.2025

    JAN 30

    1/4 Take it easy. Veciana 09-10.2025

    27th September - 5th October 2025. Take it easy. James Low's Dzogchen retreat at Casa la Salle, Veciana (Barcelona), Spain. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/take-it-easy-teaching-retreat-veciana-sep-2025/ This retreat focused on relaxing our reliance on habitual patterns of dualistic involvement so that the self-liberation of all experience becomes clear. We went through Patrul Rinpoche’s short text Self-Liberating Understanding, which is Chapter 10 in the book "Simply Being" "Simply Being" book: - English: www.amazon.com/Simply-Being-Texts-Dzogchen-Tradition/dp/1907571019 - Spanish: www.amazon.com/Simplemente-ser-James-Low/dp/8496478440 The texts are available in: - English: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Simply-Being-Text-Ch.-10-31-05-2023.pdf - Spanish: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Chapter-10-Spanish_2024-1.pdf Spanish translation: Mariana Orozco and María Lleó Organisers: Maica Gardia (Mayka) and Antonio Gomez Ceto Cover art: Peggy Anke (Pexels.com) 📱 Instagram of excerpts: instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzzZaXqQPyc

  4. Mindfulness: theory and practice. Warsaw 11.2008

    JAN 23

    Mindfulness: theory and practice. Warsaw 11.2008

    26th November 2008. James Low's lecture on "Mindfulness: theory and practice" held at the 1st Conference on "Practical Application of Buddhism in Western Psychology", in Warsaw, Poland. www.buddhisminpsychology.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=a308y3lfWrI

    53 min
  5. Dzogchen in Everyday Life | A Conversation with James Low. Zoom 01.2026

    JAN 18

    Dzogchen in Everyday Life | A Conversation with James Low. Zoom 01.2026

    January 10th, 2026. A conversation with James Low and Viorica Constantinescu about Dzogchen as a living experience, embodied in the simplicity of everyday life. Note: the constant cuts in this video result from the removal of James Low's periods of silence, while waiting for the consecutive translation from the Romanian translator. Starting from the Romanian release of the text “Love Your Mother”, we explore openness, possibility, and how we can relate to our own experience in a more direct, gentle, and authentic way. English: youtu.be/r8r9CH7-XJc (you are here) Romanian: youtu.be/dIOcV9CrTGs Transcript of this video: [soon] Audio recording of this video: [soon] 📱 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=r8r9CH7-XJc

    21 min

  6. JAN 17

    Dzogchen in Everyday Life | A Conversation with James Low. [EN-RO] Zoom 01.2026

    January 10th, 2026. A conversation with James Low and Viorica Constantinescu about Dzogchen as a living experience, embodied in the simplicity of everyday life. Starting from the Romanian release of the text “Love Your Mother”, we explore openness, possibility, and how we can relate to our own experience in a more direct, gentle, and authentic way. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIOcV9CrTGs

    42 min
  7. Saying the unsayable. Todtmoos 06.2006

    JAN 10

    Saying the unsayable. Todtmoos 06.2006

    James Low is interviewed by Guido Ferrari during a retreat in Todtmoos, Germany, in June 2006. James was asked what dzogchen is, what it means and how we should live with this awareness. Transcript of this video: https://bit.ly/49pGlCh Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/3NbnKT7 📱 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=jY_TK5PchC8

    23 min
  8. 4/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025

    12/29/2025

    4/4 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/4iUQ8ov Portuguese translators: Madalena Pedroza & Milton Petruczok Spanish translator: Juan García Lázaro (@juanb.garcialazaro) & Mariana Orozco "(0:00) Mariana Orozco (ES)" "(1:17:09) Madalena Pedroza (PT)" "(2:08:51) Mariana Orozco (ES)" "(3:21:39) Milton Petruczok (PT)" "(4:21:08) Mariana Orozco (ES)" "(5:40:39) Madalena Pedroza (PT)" "(6:35:19) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(8:12:57) Milton Petruczok (PT)" 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=TFrnBs_Zn2k

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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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