18 November 2011. James Low gave this workshop for practising therapists in Hereford, UK.

“Our open heart touching and opening the heart of the other. This is non-dual contact, the meeting of sky with sky, the heart of Buddhist ethics.”

~ James Low

James starts with an introduction to the traditional Tibetan view of mindfulness, then relates this to different psychotherapy theories and finally, with how it can be taken and used in clinical practice.

Organised by Jennifer French.

Cover video art: Larkkid Dung, via Pexels.com

Transcript of this video revised by James: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/275-2011-Nov-Hereford-MindfulTherapy-KB-JL-edit3-webready.pdf

Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/4oodDr3

📱 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=ZHKrsNHVU_8

9th November 2025. The Deathless and the Dying. Public talk with James Low at Lekdanling in East London, England, at the invitation of the Shang Shung Institute of Tibetan Studies.

The focus will be on illusion as the middle way between the familiar binary opposites of birth and death, health and sickness, life as flow and within that, loss and grief.

Cover video art: Amir Mghari, via Pexels.com

Transcript of this video: https://bit.ly/4hYIubW

Audio recording of this video: https://bit.ly/44etL73

📱 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=Q0CFufzBBuk

1/4 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/4oGBjYs

Portuguese translators: Madalena Pedroza & Milton Petruczok

Spanish translator: Mariana Orozco & Juan García Lázaro (@juanb.garcialazaro)

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=T2BwDfKYmRE

June 4th 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer.

1) Is consciousness and mind the same in Buddhism? Is my mind which is deluded and has its own habits and tendencies the same as the mind which is primordial, unborn and clear? If so why is the mind which I call mine deluded?

2) Are the explanations about karma and rebirth offered by traditional Buddhism part of a theory or belief or is it part of experience? Is it under the domain of consciousness or the domain of awareness? Does it make sense to practice Dzogchen without fully accepting these theories?

3) What does it mean if a rinpoche bangs you on the head or gives you a shock?

4) The luminous mind that we all have: is it also a compounded phenomena? If yes, how do we know when it is present and when not?

5) Can a mind involved in conceptual elaboration ever generate compassion or loving kindness? Right mindfulness is one aspect of the eight-fold path. What are instances of wrong mindfulness? How do I guard against wrong mindfulness?

6) In the White A practice, can we eventually include a Padmasambhava visualization with the three colors, the ball that radiates white light and drops into our heart, etc., or the practice of visualizing the tube that goes from the crown of our head to the perineum and then expands?

7) We have some experience within the Theravada and Zen traditions; now we start to explore Dzogchen. What would you recommend: pointing out instructions, initiation, long-term retreat?

8) Is there a practice that can be used to improve someone's situation? How would this work?

English: youtu.be/xnsfHHP9vRs

English (without silence cuts): youtu.be/Z5vLJzeK4fo

German: youtu.be/Z6MKqkIVY48

Russian: youtu.be/b-i8VP36Ozs

Polish: youtu.be/r4g3DkxASwQ

Spanish: youtu.be/tyWlgXr2RHU

Portuguese: youtu.be/UOc2Bi_XuYQ

Romanian: youtu.be/GrmoLpoUMvY

Italian: youtu.be/vDS6yQ_aK9w (you are here)

Italian translation: Rosanna D'Urso

📱 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=vDS6yQ_aK9w

May 14th – 18th, 2025. Tantra & Dzogchen. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Wilga, Poland.

The delusion that we exist as definable entities is the basis of all limited and limiting experience. Through dissolving our contrived identity into that of Padmasambhava, we become free to act in whatever ways will help sentient beings. The view of dzogchen deeps our understanding of how this functions and aids our release into our intrinsic source which we have never actually strayed from.

~ James Low

Polish translation: Bartek Czajkowski

Camera and editing: Olaf Brockmann

📱 Instagram of excerpts: / 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://youtu.be/5yPN3nXnucg?si=RjH0htYm3QbW-JCC

May 14th – 18th, 2025. Tantra & Dzogchen. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Wilga, Poland.

The delusion that we exist as definable entities is the basis of all limited and limiting experience. Through dissolving our contrived identity into that of Padmasambhava, we become free to act in whatever ways will help sentient beings. The view of dzogchen deeps our understanding of how this functions and aids our release into our intrinsic source which we have never actually strayed from.

~ James Low

Polish translation: Bartek Czajkowski

Camera and editing: Olaf Brockmann

📱 Instagram of excerpts: / 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://youtu.be/fN09exL3mxs?si=0vFSXldKcqlxIC6a

November 8th – 11th, 2018. Indestructible freedom. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Barcelona, Spain.

“The retreat will focus on settling into the clarity which is present in all experience. Through meditation, including some of the methods of the semdzin and using chapter 8 of "Simply Being" we will open the space within which all obscurations are self-liberating and go free like clouds dissolving in the sky.”

~ James Low

Spanish translation: Mariana Orozco and Maria Lleó

Video recording and initial editing: Antonio Gomez.

Full audio recordings of the retreat: [soon]

📱 Instagram of excerpts: / 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://youtu.be/qsF2g0eCPF4?si=td2TLaOhB8KYtEuR

November 8th – 11th, 2018. Indestructible freedom. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Barcelona, Spain.

“The retreat will focus on settling into the clarity which is present in all experience. Through meditation, including some of the methods of the semdzin and using chapter 8 of "Simply Being" we will open the space within which all obscurations are self-liberating and go free like clouds dissolving in the sky.”

~ James Low

Spanish translation: Mariana Orozco and Maria Lleó

Video recording and initial editing: Antonio Gomez.

Full audio recordings of the retreat: [soon]

📱 Instagram of excerpts: / 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://youtu.be/C5IrgcTEaRY?si=TwnoKEoqxNp5z-1T