James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings

May 31st 2026. James Low talked about compassion in action and supporting minority groups such as the Huni Kuin in the Amazon. Bellow you can read more about this group and how to support them here. This event was taking place on the full moon day (Saga Dawa) of the 4th month in the Tibetan calendar. It commemorates such major events of Sakyamuni Buddha’s life as his birth, awakening, and parinirv...

May 9th 2026. James Low's teachings on Zoom about "Patience and non-duality as a means to avoid reactivity to provocations". Transcript of the retreat (may contain minor errors): https://bit.ly/3RgIDhH Audio recording: http://bit.ly/4u3hUE0 Other languages' links: [soon] Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/ 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSa...

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 shor...

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 shor...

October 2010. James taught for four days using the text by Gonpo Wangyal translated as 'Introduction to the nature of the mother of all the buddhas', at the Kamalashila Institute, deep in the rolling countryside of the Eifel region of Germany. Text in Tibetan and English: https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Gonpo-Wangyal-Into-to-the-nature-of-the-mother-SA-Final.pdf This r...

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 shor...

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 poten...

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 s...

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 shor...

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 fut...

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 Moth...

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=dIOcV9Cr...

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://simpl...

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 ourse...

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 medita...

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 ourse...

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 medita...

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 ourse...

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, wi...

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 T...

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 t...

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 traditiona...

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...

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...

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 clou...