James Low

James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings

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James Low is a disciple and teacher in the Byangter and Khordong lineages of the late Chhimed Rigdzin Lama. James regularly teaches the principles of dzogchen Buddhism in Europe and he publishes translations and commentaries from time to time. Many of his seminars have been recorded and transcribed. They are now being put on his website to provide access for those seeking to deepen their dharma understanding and explore how to apply it in the complexities of everyday life. Learn more about future events: simplybeing.co.uk/events/

Author

James Low

Category

Religion

Podcast website

simplybeing.co.uk

Latest episode

Jun 13, 2026

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Episodes

38 Questions & Answers. [EN-ES] Zoom 01.2025 10.03.2025

22nd January 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Spanish translation: @juanb.garcialazaro P1) What is the difference between a light body and a rainbow body? P2) What does "recognize a thought" mean in the texts, and how is it different from being aware of a thought? P3) Can you explain the Tibetan word "jigten" (meani...

38 Questions & Answers. [EN-PL] Zoom 01.2025 10.03.2025

22nd January 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. Polish translation: Bartłomiej Czajkowski P1) What is the difference between a light body and a rainbow body? P2) What does "recognize a thought" mean in the texts, and how is it different from being aware of a thought? P3) Can you explain the Tibetan word "jigten" (mean...

The female experience of dharma. [extract] Zoom 10.2024 03.03.2025

Excerpt form the teaching "The great completion of Dzogchen", 8th July 2021, on Zoom: https://youtu.be/j9zQeWzsWXE Book "This is it": https://www.amazon.com/This-revealing-completion-James-Low/dp/0956923976 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events:...

The rise of a wrathful Buddha. [extract] Zoom 10.2024 02.03.2025

Excerpt form the teaching "The great completion of Dzogchen", 8th July 2021, on Zoom: https://youtu.be/j9zQeWzsWXE Book "This is it": https://www.amazon.com/This-revealing-completion-James-Low/dp/0956923976 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events:...

Encountering the other. [extract] Zoom 10.2024 01.03.2025

Excerpt from the teaching "The great completion of Dzogchen", 8th July 2021, on Zoom: https://youtu.be/j9zQeWzsWXE Book "This is it": https://www.amazon.com/This-revealing-completion-James-Low/dp/0956923976 The third facet is concerned with "encountering the other" — and it's a translation of a text dealing with the arising of a tantric deity called Chakrasaṃvara,...

Increased transparency. [extract] Zoom 10.2024 01.03.2025

Excerpt form the teaching "The great completion of Dzogchen", 8th July 2021, on Zoom: https://youtu.be/j9zQeWzsWXE Book "This is it": https://www.amazon.com/This-revealing-completion-James-Low/dp/0956923976 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events:...

Unfixing the self. [extract] Zoom 10.2024 28.02.2025

Excerpt form the teaching "The great completion of Dzogchen", 8th July 2021, on Zoom: https://youtu.be/j9zQeWzsWXE Book "This is it": https://www.amazon.com/This-revealing-completion-James-Low/dp/0956923976 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events:...

Through the veil of concepts. [extract] Zoom 10.2024 23.02.2025

Excerpt form the teaching "The great completion of Dzogchen", 8th July 2021, on Zoom: https://youtu.be/j9zQeWzsWXE 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 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=NTILnL2V_HY

Unfixing the self. [extract] Zoom 10.2024 23.02.2025

Excerpt form the teaching "The great completion of Dzogchen", 8th July 2021, on Zoom: https://youtu.be/j9zQeWzsWXE Book "This is it": https://www.amazon.com/This-revealing-completion-James-Low/dp/0956923976 📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/simplybeingsangha 🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/ 📆 Learn more about future events:...

Once ground, two paths 19.02.2025

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvBahirNKyM

What does have a sell-by date is thoughts 13.02.2025

Extract from James Low's "The flow of transmission and the transmission of flow" teachings in Macclesfield, on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd 2007. James talks about how in the Buddhist context, what is being transmitted is not cognitive knowledge— a body of facts that make us knowledgeable about something—but rather the possibility of a different way of being so that we find ourselves more a...

Banks and river 12.02.2025

Extract from James Low's "The flow of transmission and the transmission of flow" teachings in Macclesfield, on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd 2007. James talks about how in the Buddhist context, what is being transmitted is not cognitive knowledge— a body of facts that make us knowledgeable about something—but rather the possibility of a different way of being so that we find ourselves more at ease. The on...

Book "Me first!" (DE - German) 11.02.2025

Getting lost is easy, especially if we are sure that we are right. Trusting our thoughts and feelings, we act decisively and strongly and find out much later that we have gone blindly astray without realising that we were so wrong. This story shows both the havoc created by the selfish entitlement that proclaims, “Me first!” and the many faces of kindness the Buddhas manifested to tidy up the mess...

Book "Me first!" (TR - Turkish) 11.02.2025

Getting lost is easy, especially if we are sure that we are right. Trusting our thoughts and feelings, we act decisively and strongly and find out much later that we have gone blindly astray without realising that we were so wrong. This story shows both the havoc created by the selfish entitlement that proclaims, “Me first!” and the many faces of kindness the Buddhas manifested to tidy up the mess...

Book "Me first!" (RO - Romanian) 11.02.2025

Getting lost is easy, especially if we are sure that we are right. Trusting our thoughts and feelings, we act decisively and strongly and find out much later that we have gone blindly astray without realising that we were so wrong. This story shows both the havoc created by the selfish entitlement that proclaims, “Me first!” and the many faces of kindness the Buddhas manifested to tidy up the mess...

Book "Me first!" (PT - Portuguese) 11.02.2025

Getting lost is easy, especially if we are sure that we are right. Trusting our thoughts and feelings, we act decisively and strongly and find out much later that we have gone blindly astray without realising that we were so wrong. This story shows both the havoc created by the selfish entitlement that proclaims, “Me first!” and the many faces of kindness the Buddhas manifested to tidy up the mess...

Book "Me first!" (IT - Italian) 11.02.2025

Getting lost is easy, especially if we are sure that we are right. Trusting our thoughts and feelings, we act decisively and strongly and find out much later that we have gone blindly astray without realising that we were so wrong. This story shows both the havoc created by the selfish entitlement that proclaims, “Me first!” and the many faces of kindness the Buddhas manifested to tidy up the mess...

Book "Me first!" (ES - Spanish) 11.02.2025

Getting lost is easy, especially if we are sure that we are right. Trusting our thoughts and feelings, we act decisively and strongly and find out much later that we have gone blindly astray without realising that we were so wrong. This story shows both the havoc created by the selfish entitlement that proclaims, “Me first!” and the many faces of kindness the Buddhas manifested to tidy up the mess...

Book "Me first!" (EN - English) 11.02.2025

Getting lost is easy, especially if we are sure that we are right. Trusting our thoughts and feelings, we act decisively and strongly and find out much later that we have gone blindly astray without realising that we were so wrong. This story shows both the havoc created by the selfish entitlement that proclaims, “Me first!” and the many faces of kindness the Buddhas manifested to tidy up the mess...

Book "Me first!" (RU - Russian) 11.02.2025

Getting lost is easy, especially if we are sure that we are right. Trusting our thoughts and feelings, we act decisively and strongly and find out much later that we have gone blindly astray without realising that we were so wrong. This story shows both the havoc created by the selfish entitlement that proclaims, “Me first!” and the many faces of kindness the Buddhas manifested to tidy up the mess...

Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. Zoom 01.2025 09.02.2025

18th January 2025. Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. First Zoom teachings of the year with James Low. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/q-and-a-34-saturday-jan-2025/ 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 German translator. "(00:00) Morning session 1" "(42:06)...

Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. [EN-TR] Zoom 01.2025 09.02.2025

18th January 2025. Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. First Zoom teachings of the year with James Low. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/q-and-a-34-saturday-jan-2025/ 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 German translator. "(00:00) Morning session 1" "(01:21:07) Morning session...

Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. [EN-RU] Zoom 01.2025 09.02.2025

18th January 2025. Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. First Zoom teachings of the year with James Low. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/q-and-a-34-saturday-jan-2025/ 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 German translator. "(00:00) Morning session 1" "(01:21:07) Morning session...

Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. [EN-RO] Zoom 01.2025 09.02.2025

18th January 2025. Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. First Zoom teachings of the year with James Low. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/q-and-a-34-saturday-jan-2025/ 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 German translator. "(00:00) Morning session 1" "(01:21:07) Morning session...

Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. [EN-PT] Zoom 01.2025 09.02.2025

18th January 2025. Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness. First Zoom teachings of the year with James Low. https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/q-and-a-34-saturday-jan-2025/ 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 German translator. "(00:00) Morning session 1" "(01:21:07) Morning session...

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