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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

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

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

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

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

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

15-18 October, 2015. Meditation retreat in Kamalashila Institute, in the Eifel region of German, based on Chapter 10 of James Low's book Simply Being, which is a translation of Patrul Rinpoche's text "Self-liberating Understanding". "Integrating the view, meditation and activity in dzogchen. We will focus on the self liberation of experience, which is the heart of the meditation, and how to apply that within the complexities of daily life. This involves finding the middle way of appearance and emptiness, free of control and avoidance on the one hand, and merging and identification on the other." ~ James Low • Saturday 17/10/2015: - On Refuge recitation - Back to points where confusion or loss of direction can enter - Question - experience with the object - familiar positioning - The mind that is recollecting - cat and mouse - Distraction - intention - neutrality - Deconstructing judgements - Wrapping phenoma in catchability - Mind vacant unfocussed - mind itself empty - Discrimination - categories - Tightening and relaxing attention - My own falsity - Question - thoughts coming going quickly - Rewards compensations equanimity - Question - the one who is having the experience - An explanation of minds activity - Question - how psychological wounds and karma held - Guru yoga practice - Dream yoga - Instruction on self-liberating confusion - Being present with in the everyday - Free of distraction assumption craving - Integrating practice in everyday life - An explanation of the self-liberation of the afflictions • Sunday • 18/10/2015: session - An explanation of how mind reveals itself - How to practice the four aspects of behaviour - The good armour that is the friend of meditation - Essential advice for great meditators - A path of learning Transcript of the retreat: https://bit.ly/4iJbaX5 Audio recording of the retreat: https://www.simplybeing.co.uk/2015/11/28/autumn-2015/ 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=ty_w8HBEUr4

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) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(1:00:39) Milton Petruczok (PT)" "(2:26:47) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(3:51:59) Madalena Pedroza (PT)" "(4:27:44) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(5:22:53) Milton Petruczok (PT)" "(6:41:48) Juan García Lázaro (ES)" "(7:55:54) Madalena Pedroza (PT)" "(8:41:07) Mariana Orozco (ES)" "(9:46:43) 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=Fzz_UqGGOSA

15-18 October, 2015. Meditation retreat in Kamalashila Institute, in the Eifel region of German, based on Chapter 10 of James Low's book Simply Being, which is a translation of Patrul Rinpoche's text "Self-liberating Understanding". "Integrating the view, meditation and activity in dzogchen. We will focus on the self liberation of experience, which is the heart of the meditation, and how to apply that within the complexities of daily life. This involves finding the middle way of appearance and emptiness, free of control and avoidance on the one hand, and merging and identification on the other." ~ James Low • Thursday 15/10/2015: session 1 introduced "two methods for calming the mind and looking at the contents of the mind by focussing attention." - Shamatha meditation - Distraction - giving ones self - Re-collection and mindfulness - Vipassana - Naming is not neutral - Question - spontaneity and choice - Awareness - Identity - meaning - situation - Nine round breathing - Sitting with what occurs - Leaving appearances to be as they are - Guru Yoga - Guru Yoga instructions - Thoughts and feelings passing through - Question - who notices - mind - ego - Just with the thought - A few words about the text - Introduction to the text - From the heart of a ragged gentleman - Inseparability of your mind and the Dharmakaya - Knowing this everything is liberated - Question - fear - dissolving - Question fear anxiety holding on -This one is sufficient to rule • Friday • 16/10/2015: session 2 develops that. The topic is awareness. "Awareness and attention are not the same. Awareness is the open clarity of the mind which is present whether we are attentive or not. Awareness is innate, is there from the beginning, whether we are aware of it or not." - On Refuge - Question - tree of refuge - Compassion then back to Refuge - Clear and alert in non-artificial voidness - Question - letting go - Do not react - remain without artifice - Practice in conjunction with the text - Your mind is not found by seeking - Staying with the direct experience - Time is limited - Seeking is not necessary - remain without artifice - Non-artificiality removes all obstacles - About the involvement of the experiencer - The demon of elation - relational structures - Buoyant and hopeful - equanimity - Question - faith and trusting - Teaching on the minds hidden faults - Sitting exactly here and now - Question - one ground two paths - the Bardo - Question - Semdzin practice - Question - allowing impact allowing duration - Question - emanation - Question - partial enlightentment - predjudice illumination relative truth - Question - a universal ethical code Transcript of the retreat: https://bit.ly/4iJbaX5 Audio recording of the retreat: https://www.simplybeing.co.uk/2015/11/28/autumn-2015/ 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=ywDBc4XLsvU

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/43JSqAu Portuguese translators: Madalena Pedroza & Milton Petruczok Spanish translator: Juan García Lázaro (@juanb.garcialazaro) Playlist "Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv-KZQo9b6hTYeZBBx5-lQ8lhg0JLM_at • 1/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025: youtu.be/T2BwDfKYmRE • 2/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025: youtu.be/EX_DQ7hFtfY (you are here) • 3/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025: [soon] • 4/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025: [soon] 0:00 Milton Petruczok (PT) 1:33:41 Juan García Lázaro (ES) 2:57:20 Madalena Pedroza (PT) 4:23:50 Juan García Lázaro (ES) 5:15:08 Madalena Pedroza (PT) 6:34:34 Juan García Lázaro (ES) 8:05:45 Milton Petruczok (PT) 9:19:54 Juan García Lázaro (ES) 10:45:41 Madalena Pedroza (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=EX_DQ7hFtfY

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