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The function of the practice is to be still, that we can be still in the midst of movement, we don't have to move with movement. So there's a letting go or a disconnecting with our usual with our usual pattern of reactivity. And the reactivity arises because we think it must be something to do with us - James Low

Ça fait plaisir de voir James Low ! Merci ! Un pédagogue de première, et une belle clarté

I've spent years reading and listening to all the great teachers of our time. James Low is my favourite. He's fucking amazing. ❤

There's a saying that Tibetan's have that you may forget the dharma but the dharma will never forget you. That dharma is already in you. So even though life gets very busy or you get confused and you don't do any practice for a while these pathways of sweetness and emptiness are flowing through you. So never despair even if life gets very difficult you can say your prayers, dharma is there - James Low

i listen to these talks again and again, for years now. doing so has significantly retrained how efficient i am in reconnecting to the ground and how long i abide here. i'm deeply grateful for your offering mr low😁❤

A powerhouse!

Thank you James. for your teachings!

Thank you, sir.

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well-fed guy speaking in a rich country about getting nothing... he should do yoga instead... will do him good

Brilliant.

If you shout a lie very loudly it doesn't make it true. So the intensity of the emotion, it whacks you, it impacts you, but it doesn't establish anything. So that is the whole thing, is to look before you leap - James Low

Really appreciate the accuracy of the phrases "Great Completion" and "Great Inclusion" which really correspond exactly to the traditional definitions, something which isn't the case for the phrase "Great Perfection".

When we sit in the meditation we are so lucky. We are so fortunate to spend time with this ungraspability of ourselves and we see 'I don't know what I am doing, I'm sitting here Ah, don't know what's going on', there's all this stuff, I'm breathing in and out, thank god that doesn't stop, thoughts are going in all sorts of patterns and then you get up and you have a pee and have your lunch, I am rich, I am complex, I am fertile, beyond capture, I cannot be put in a box, the mind is not a thing, I am not a thing. When you really see that in yourself the wisdom of the diversity of the phenomena of this aware mind, then we truly see the violence of samsara. Even if it isn't a war zone people are pushed into these categories again and again. They're being stamped with a signifier, with an idea as if that was their truth. So one of the functions of meditation is when you sit with yourself and I cannot establish the truth of my existence because it is dynamic, so it's quick and I can't catch it, but secondly it is co-emergent, it's arising with, because it's a with, it's not my possession. It's a with. So I have to be with it to with the richness of the arising but I can't stabilise it and I can't get it. And then you can apply that to all the people you meet, to all the situations. I have to be with them, you have to be with each other - James Low

Thank you, James 🙏

Hi! One question. James mentions an excerpt from something called ‘finding freedom’ are there any more details about this excerpt please? Checked on kindle but not sure of the author so couldn’t find identify anything - thanks

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that was absolutely marvellous thank you so much, James. ❤

❤ Don’t worry about anything “it’s just The patterning of delusion” The ultimate reframe. 😊

Thank you James & team! I very much appreciate making his “retreats” available for those of us around the world! I have found much benefit from his teachings and I am grateful! OM AH HUM✨🙏✨

00:13 Understanding the concept of the unborn face in relation to the born face 03:28 The concept of self is multi-layered and dynamic, not fixed. 09:34 Our perception of self is a pseudo stillness, but in reality, it is a dynamic, interactive, and constructive movement 12:38 Focusing on relaxing and releasing from patterns of movement 18:15 Being fresh by staying unborn and without history. 20:41 Children are evolving beyond fixed identities 25:46 Our need for social existence and self-deception 28:07 The basic sound 'AH' symbolizes emptiness and is the essence of all sounds 33:14 Embracing the infinite without displacing the small or limited 36:04 Thoughts are like waves in the ocean of silence and spaciousness 40:40 Staying present in the here and now is crucial for balance and clarity 43:54 Relax into the out breath and open to your original face 48:58 Embrace the richness and potential of the ground 51:21 Grasping distorts the all-inclusive panoramic vision 56:18 Embracing distraction as part of the practice 1:00:07 Awareness is the ungraspable essence present when you are open and present 1:05:07 Understanding the richness of the mind and diversity within it 1:07:29 Life is a spontaneous play of creativity without fixed outcomes 1:12:50 Understanding separation and dependency in consciousness 1:15:31 Understanding the concept of belonging and independence

Thank you.

Such a gift you are, James. My gratitude couldn’t begin to match the enormity of your kindness and the light you shine on the path🙏🏼 (I’m guessing this video does not actually stream. Correct?)

Please stop bashing Trump and Republicans. More government never brings more freedom or economic prosperity. Harris wants to tax unrealized capital gains; that’s not an illusion.

Thank you.

today I’m just understand “Rigpa” like trying to capture water with a net😏

What is very important is to think I'm not in charge. I'm not a machine, people may want me to be a machine, but I am not a machine and I'm not in charge of all the variables in my life. So I experience a bumpy ride and if your in any way linked with me you will have a bumpy ride to, because that's how our life is. So if we could all hold the confidence of that we might resist some of these incredible pressures - James Low

Ten kurs to chyba w 2024 był, a nie w 2023 ?

00:16 Our mind is complete and entire unto itself. 05:02 Identity formation is influenced by external factors 13:53 Meditation allows unloading of self-construction. 18:12 Dzogchen (great completion), helps us see without bias 26:40 The importance of being open to movement and reactivity in connecting with others 30:28 Free movement gets interrupted by lack of connection. 38:34 Focus on settling gently with the breath and being with your breath. 43:16 Conflicts are often viewed through a single storyline, ignoring their historical context and leading to simplistic solutions 51:11 Buddha's experience under the bodh tree led to realization of non-identity 55:06 Freedom from reactive immersion in experience 1:03:17 Juxtaposition and mental formation lead to different perceptions and actions. 1:07:10 The ever-changing nature of beliefs and interpretations. 1:15:45 Objectifying experience leads to isolation from the emergent moment. 1:19:38 Understanding the concept of being 'in world' and dynamic participation 1:27:13 Importance of being present and open during practice

I am the first commentator, actively constructing an image of myself extracted from the field of experience.

Ohh Master! Gratitude ❤🥹

incredibly clear, thank you, James!

It's very important to enjoy the freedom of being nobody special - James Low

1:46:15 “How can I make enlightenment my motivation to meditate if I don’t even know what it is?”

I cannot believe this video is available for anybody to access. What a time to be alive.

The Power of HOW. I love the tree example - dharma reroutes da roots!

9:17:08 “Do you think that learning basics of DEBATE would be useful?”

Where ever you are something is always going on. You're always on the inside. So, again, this is very important in dharma, because if your always on the inside, being on the outside is a delusion and that's called samsara. Where everybody feels I'm an isolated individual, I'm not sure if I belong, I'm sure if people like me and these thoughts create a kind of igloo around you and the igloo's made of ice and the nature of ice is water, so the more we allow the flow of experience the igloo starts to melt and we find we are always in it, we are always in it. And what is it we are in the dharmadatu, the original nature of the mind, so many names for that - James Low

Excellent questions by the host. Thank you, both.

I wish all the videos were broken into little sections like this one. The sound quality is a little off tho.

1:18:53 The Third Statement of Garab Dorje

Preparing for death is a big, big issue in Tibetan buddhism. It's seen as a critical point because you're existence doesn't end at death. Now why doesn't it end; because the mind is unborn and unceasing. It is because you have the possibility of enlightenment, because you have awareness, this awareness doesn't die, it can't end, it can't vanish and because it can't vanish it just goes on taking one formulation, one positioning after another. So that's why we have rebirth because of the indestructible nature of awareness, this vajra self. So the best way to deal with the happenstance of death is to integrate the vagaries of lived experience into the open ground. Which is why we are doing the practice whatever comes, comes - James Low

Cuidado con la traducción al español!!! Es deficiente.

He bought the fear propaganda hard . Loving the Dzogchen explanations on this channel tho

Thank you sir, I am forever grateful to you and your wisdom ❤

Does dharma come first or do people come first; people come first, people come first. So texts describe kind of visualisations, some people can visualise very easily, some people have lots of dreams and can remember their dreams, other people don't visualise, they don't have any visual images that arise in their mind. If you, as always with these things, if you make a vertical axis and we think this is what I should be able to do but I can't do what I should be able to do, you have an abasement, you are denigrated, you are lowered and this is not helpful in anyway. So we read the text and it could be very useful if I can access it, but as I am I don't access it and therefore it is irrelevant for me. Because if you put it on the crown of your head it will shrink you and we have already had enough people in our life shrinking us. So we take the vertical axis and we bring it down and it is a horizontal open plane and these are possibilities. So if this pathway is not going to work for you, you can do another pathway. That's why the buddha taught 84,000 dharmas...dharma is a buffet, choose what to eat and choose enough not to make you too fat - James Low

Thank you for sharing these precious teachings with commentary, James and translator. ❤

So in this practice of the guru yoga of the white A, guru here means your original nature. The guru is the truth, or if you like in terms of the two truths, it is the absolute truth and the yoga means to join in the naturalness of the guru. In Tibetan yoga is naljor, nal natural but especially relaxed at ease, jorwa, to join, to release yourself into the ease with being at one with the guru, that's the function of guru yoga - James Low