James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings

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=LBLPBAu4OsI

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 potential by hanging on to habits and impulses which do not function well in the world in which we find ourselves. Dzogchen, the Great Completion, is the heart of Tibetan Buddhism and it offers us a way to release ourselves from the limiting ideas that we have of ourselves so that the freshness of our simple presence can illuminate our life in a new way.

These teachings and practices help us to see the fleeting nature of all experience. With this clarity we can let go of our habit of effortful striving to solidify the flow of experience. This approach to life offers us a profound choice. Either we can continue to objectify whatever occurs so that we can name it and try to shape it to fit our sense of how we want our life to be. Or we can relax and open to being part of the flow, gently influencing how we emerge as part of the circumstances we encounter.

This latter approach frees us from the need to verify and analyse so that we can enjoy the freshness of each and every moment.

This short retreat will introduce us to the essence of the view of Dzogchen and facilitate how we can enter into direct experience of non-dual co-emergence. There will be periods of teaching and of meditation practice.

Referred text: 'Prayer Evocation of Kuntuzangpo', availabel in English, Spanish and Portuguese: https://bit.ly/4tpWxwz

Turkish translation: Mustafa Mert Çelebi

Cover art: Taryn Elliott (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=v7syJlFOJeU

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 seek to open to that which is stable, an invitation, an explanation and a practice.
~ James Low

Recorded by Charles Lomas and Gareth Williams.

Transcript of the retreat: https://bit.ly/4rtBask

Audio recording of the retreat: https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-recordings/retreats/macclesfield-talk-no-20-equanimity/

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=pqyJZ-bwCYA

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