Everything you cling to will cheat you, but you are good at clinging. Everything you release will free you, but you are not good at releasing. So this is the work of meditation; feeling the arousal, the intoxication, the emeshment, ho, let it go, let it go - James Low
James Low, David Parrish and Lama Lena are the most direct teachers of the Dharma today. If you don’t know the others it would benefit you ur understanding to check them out as well
Amazing stuff. And where (when) else can you hear something like this -- nowhere, that I've seen. I'm grateful you're able to tell us these things, and that we're able to hear them.
We are the recipients of the great freedom, the future is open to us, who are we going to be, how are we going to be, these are not questions the ego can answer but if we find the ground it's clear - James Low
All the meditation problems that arise are problems of belief. We believe that it is good, we beleive that it is bad. We determine not just the shaping and the impact of what is arising but its true validity. Which is why in this style of meditation, which is called the meditation of non-meditation we don't have an intention, we are not trying to achieve anything, we are simply being present with the mind as it is and allowing the intensity of the mind, the seductive and entrancing pattern formations which we are so habitually oriented to succumbing to, we are allowing them to come and go. Our participation in thought production as thought maintenence and thought validation is being relaxed - James Low
So the central principles are very clear; the ground is infinite, awareness inseparable from the ground is infinite. It is our choice whether we open to that infinity or not. All finite's are within the infinite. There is no finite outside the infinite otherwise the infinite wouldn't be infinite. If you have something outside the infinite, infinite is now in relation to the finite and so you have comparing and contrasting and the infinite is diminished. So really understanding the infinite nature of the mind means whatever us occuring, whither it is happy or sad, war or peace, hospital appointments, difficult medical treatments, happiness, long life, falling in love, whatever is arising this is the energy of the movement of the mind within the great completion which is the infinity of awareness - James Low
The lack of effort is very important. We have all been trained to try hard and this is a very misguided direction. Human effort is destroying the planet. Everybody tries too hard. Making effort is manipulating the patterns of energy but if you don't understand the ground of the energy then you misinterpret what it is - James Low
3 day teachings. “January 18th - 20th 2018. James Low was invited by Shang Shung UK to give a public talk held at Lekdanling in London, followed by a 2-day seminar on the same topic.”
I am showing my identity and being myself by leaving a sarcastic comment here. Because that's who I am. And that is who you are not. I get the dependent origination and sunyata arguments and believe in those concepts in part, but we can act against ourselves, and act against., and those actions are no delusions. They are real. Yes, we may be all the same source and go back to it, or not, or all manifestations of the eternal and nodual Tao, but I am not sure the no-self concept is fully realistic here on planet Earth. Tell that to a group being tortured or mistreated by another. While we may know we are all one, are we in that scenario? This post is just an illusion. It did not happen. Because none of this is real.
@@watcher5052 Reality and doubt are separate for me. We talk alot about nebulous concepts, like no-self, while individuals act in self-interest daily, harming other individuals, creating their karma. That is real and I have no reason to doubt it. Even those practicing like us here begin in self-interest, and some stay on because they feel it benefits them (and others too). I assume they are not making that decision for themselves? How are you suggesting we simplify that? Asking genuinely, and not as an internet troll.
We are always and already one - even those torturing and those being tortured - the events occurring have no affect on our inherent oneness. No-self isn’t a concept, but the actual non-dual reality of our inherent indivisibility. The self is a deluded, false concept we create in our minds and is specifically that which creates the illusion that we are separate and which leads to such actions as people being tortured.
@@Aaron-xb4rq Thanks for your response. I am looking into this deeper. I think it is the way it is explained sometimes that strikes me as unrealistic. I am not saying the concept of no-self is not realistic, but that it strikes me that way, in part. The parts I understand are our ultimate inherent oneness, and the concept of reality that we are all the same (we could call this the Brahman, or the Advaita Vedanta take on things). The Buddha also didn't believe in a soul though, which is different from the Advaita position. I get that we are a mesh of the five khandas, and when you look at that way you can ask what part of that is really you? That doesn't mean we are thin air though. We are here. The definitions of no-self do not nullify real actions taken by individuals in this impermanent world. So, at least temporarily, they are karmic actions with results. In another video, I just saw where the Buddha saw himself as more a healer and doctor of suffering, than a philosopher. Maybe his strategy was to get us to reduce suffering and to look at impermanence and interdependent origination as a way to say you are not really what is happening to you because no self-exists. I get that as a strategy to reduce suffering, even though I do not think it nullifies the consequences of our individual behavior here on Earth. At least temporarily, until we leave this world and move on to the next, occupy the pine box, or ascend into the void, those are real actions and consequences, and we are practicing to reduce or dampen their impact to our senses. What I am saying is I do not think the world is a total illusion.
@@tayrowell The world and our experience in form is most certainly not an illusion, as if it’s “not real” - it most certainly is. Buddha’s “Theory of Two Truths” - conventional and ultimate truth, is helpful in understanding the non-dual reality which recognizes the indivisibility of our conventional, temporary life in the world of form (the multitudinal manifestation of Being) and the ultimate, formless Being that we (and everything) are (Oneness of Being). The world is only an illusion to the degree that we accept the notion that we are a separate self. To believe this illusion is delusion, and this is the ultimate source of our suffering. This is the illusion from which the Buddha sought to heal people. This (pathless) path is not about consuming the right philosophical information, but about discovering and experientially knowing who we really are, conventionally and ultimately, and living as That.
Garchen Rinpoche is a living Buddhist Master who was imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese. He practiced this while being in prison . And being tortured. So, realistically, on planet Earth these teachings are alive and functioning for those that put them into practice.
Lost it at the moment the mr said , when you walking down the street in London and you dont understand what people are saying is GREAT!? Hahahah what? Whats the greatness about that? I really dont understand, have no clue if the rest of the talk follow along that narrative or if it contradict itself later on. 👍🏽
Everything you cling to will cheat you, but you are good at clinging. Everything you release will free you, but you are not good at releasing. So this is the work of meditation; feeling the arousal, the intoxication, the emeshment, ho, let it go, let it go
- James Low
James Low, David Parrish and Lama Lena are the most direct teachers of the Dharma today. If you don’t know the others it would benefit you ur understanding to check them out as well
I'm grateful for this gem of a teaching to be posted for easy access.
Love you so much Mr . James !
🌈Thank you for the lecture, 5 hours of enlightenment 🌈
This is the main focus of the practice; whatever arises is ungraspable
- James Low
Amazing stuff. And where (when) else can you hear something like this -- nowhere, that I've seen. I'm grateful you're able to tell us these things, and that we're able to hear them.
The worst, worst notion that you can ever have is that you are knowable, that you are a thing that has a beginning, a middle and an end
- James Low
Thank you very much for your teaching.
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!.
We are the recipients of the great freedom, the future is open to us, who are we going to be, how are we going to be, these are not questions the ego can answer but if we find the ground it's clear
- James Low
All the meditation problems that arise are problems of belief. We believe that it is good, we beleive that it is bad. We determine not just the shaping and the impact of what is arising but its true validity. Which is why in this style of meditation, which is called the meditation of non-meditation we don't have an intention, we are not trying to achieve anything, we are simply being present with the mind as it is and allowing the intensity of the mind, the seductive and entrancing pattern formations which we are so habitually oriented to succumbing to, we are allowing them to come and go. Our participation in thought production as thought maintenence and thought validation is being relaxed
- James Low
So the central principles are very clear; the ground is infinite, awareness inseparable from the ground is infinite. It is our choice whether we open to that infinity or not. All finite's are within the infinite. There is no finite outside the infinite otherwise the infinite wouldn't be infinite. If you have something outside the infinite, infinite is now in relation to the finite and so you have comparing and contrasting and the infinite is diminished. So really understanding the infinite nature of the mind means whatever us occuring, whither it is happy or sad, war or peace, hospital appointments, difficult medical treatments, happiness, long life, falling in love, whatever is arising this is the energy of the movement of the mind within the great completion which is the infinity of awareness
- James Low
The lack of effort is very important. We have all been trained to try hard and this is a very misguided direction. Human effort is destroying the planet. Everybody tries too hard. Making effort is manipulating the patterns of energy but if you don't understand the ground of the energy then you misinterpret what it is
- James Low
I love listening to James Low but I also like Putin.
Provocative question: do you identify yourself as a teacher of aspects of Buddhism or would that be self defeating?!
Is this a 5+ hour lecture? Not that it’s a bad thing.
3 day teachings.
“January 18th - 20th 2018. James Low was invited by Shang Shung UK to give a public talk held at Lekdanling in London, followed by a 2-day seminar on the same topic.”
I am showing my identity and being myself by leaving a sarcastic comment here. Because that's who I am. And that is who you are not.
I get the dependent origination and sunyata arguments and believe in those concepts in part, but we can act against ourselves, and act against., and those actions are no delusions. They are real. Yes, we may be all the same source and go back to it, or not, or all manifestations of the eternal and nodual Tao, but I am not sure the no-self concept is fully realistic here on planet Earth. Tell that to a group being tortured or mistreated by another. While we may know we are all one, are we in that scenario?
This post is just an illusion. It did not happen. Because none of this is real.
@@watcher5052 Reality and doubt are separate for me. We talk alot about nebulous concepts, like no-self, while individuals act in self-interest daily, harming other individuals, creating their karma. That is real and I have no reason to doubt it. Even those practicing like us here begin in self-interest, and some stay on because they feel it benefits them (and others too). I assume they are not making that decision for themselves? How are you suggesting we simplify that? Asking genuinely, and not as an internet troll.
We are always and already one - even those torturing and those being tortured - the events occurring have no affect on our inherent oneness. No-self isn’t a concept, but the actual non-dual reality of our inherent indivisibility. The self is a deluded, false concept we create in our minds and is specifically that which creates the illusion that we are separate and which leads to such actions as people being tortured.
@@Aaron-xb4rq Thanks for your response. I am looking into this deeper. I think it is the way it is explained sometimes that strikes me as unrealistic. I am not saying the concept of no-self is not realistic, but that it strikes me that way, in part. The parts I understand are our ultimate inherent oneness, and the concept of reality that we are all the same (we could call this the Brahman, or the Advaita Vedanta take on things). The Buddha also didn't believe in a soul though, which is different from the Advaita position. I get that we are a mesh of the five khandas, and when you look at that way you can ask what part of that is really you? That doesn't mean we are thin air though. We are here. The definitions of no-self do not nullify real actions taken by individuals in this impermanent world. So, at least temporarily, they are karmic actions with results.
In another video, I just saw where the Buddha saw himself as more a healer and doctor of suffering, than a philosopher. Maybe his strategy was to get us to reduce suffering and to look at impermanence and interdependent origination as a way to say you are not really what is happening to you because no self-exists. I get that as a strategy to reduce suffering, even though I do not think it nullifies the consequences of our individual behavior here on Earth. At least temporarily, until we leave this world and move on to the next, occupy the pine box, or ascend into the void, those are real actions and consequences, and we are practicing to reduce or dampen their impact to our senses. What I am saying is I do not think the world is a total illusion.
@@tayrowell The world and our experience in form is most certainly not an illusion, as if it’s “not real” - it most certainly is. Buddha’s “Theory of Two Truths” - conventional and ultimate truth, is helpful in understanding the non-dual reality which recognizes the indivisibility of our conventional, temporary life in the world of form (the multitudinal manifestation of Being) and the ultimate, formless Being that we (and everything) are (Oneness of Being).
The world is only an illusion to the degree that we accept the notion that we are a separate self. To believe this illusion is delusion, and this is the ultimate source of our suffering. This is the illusion from which the Buddha sought to heal people. This (pathless) path is not about consuming the right philosophical information, but about discovering and experientially knowing who we really are, conventionally and ultimately, and living as That.
Garchen Rinpoche is a living Buddhist Master who was imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese. He practiced this while being in prison . And being tortured. So, realistically, on planet Earth these teachings are alive and functioning for those that put them into practice.
Lost it at the moment the mr said , when you walking down the street in London and you dont understand what people are saying is GREAT!?
Hahahah what? Whats the greatness about that? I really dont understand, have no clue if the rest of the talk follow along that narrative or if it contradict itself later on. 👍🏽