14th March 2025. Me First! and the Will to Power. Zoom teachings with James Low.

https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/me-first-and-the-will-to-power-zoom-march-2025/

• ME FIRST

Search for the book "Me first! James Low" on the Amazon website for your desired country.

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.

The original Tibetan account explaining why the Buddhas had to manifest wrathful forms is translated in the book "This Is It" by James Low, (Simply Being, 2020). See chapter 4, "Getting Lost Invites Trouble".

• MACHIG'S WAY

Available in Kindle e-book and hardback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=machig%27s+way+james

A Tibetan girl's struggle to follow the path of a yogini

Machig Labdron was one of Tibet's great meditation masters. She started a whole lineage of practice that still exists today. It has been incorporated in one way or another by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

The paintings on each page were inspired by her biography and illustrate her life and difficulties. Being an inspiration for Buddhist practitioners, it goes beyond the merely biographical.

One thousand years ago villagers and nomads in Tibet had many expectations about how a young girl should behave. Girls were trained in all the tasks of maintaining a household and ensuring that nothing was wasted from the animals. This was the basis for a good marriage.

But Machig carried within her a deep spiritual vision of a different life. Every experience she had of village life convinced her that her place was in the high hills, living in caves and devoting her life to meditation practice. Her struggle to fulfil her vision is recounted in this illustrated brief biography which includes some of her most beautiful and challenging songs.

This life story of Machig Labdron is directly translated from an original Tibetan text by James Low. Paintings by Diana Collins.

Each page has paintings by Diana Collins commissioned by James Low to accompany the text. They illustrate Machig Labdron’s life and difficulties in a way that hopefully brings them to life and is an inspiration for Buddhist practitioners.

German translation: Robert Jaroslawski

English: youtu.be/3xLfMetyBVA

English (withou silence cuts): youtu.be/m-VIwru1Rrg

German: youtu.be/m-f3tE83Xko (you are here)

Russian: youtu.be/1BeNjR2ivh8

Polish: youtu.be/pghmT_dCs-w

Spanish: youtu.be/DlZbcJr8gas

Portuguese: youtu.be/zYRhREYE0NE

Romanian: youtu.be/9xkfTdskCOo

Turkish: youtu.be/qBDGwApof3E

Cover art: Kelly (Pexels)

📱 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=m-f3tE83Xko

14th March 2025. Me First! and the Will to Power. Zoom teachings with James Low.

https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/me-first-and-the-will-to-power-zoom-march-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.

• ME FIRST

Search for the book "Me first! James Low" on the Amazon website for your desired country.

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.

The original Tibetan account explaining why the Buddhas had to manifest wrathful forms is translated in the book "This Is It" by James Low, (Simply Being, 2020). See chapter 4, "Getting Lost Invites Trouble".

• MACHIG'S WAY

Available in Kindle e-book and hardback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=machig%27s+way+james

A Tibetan girl's struggle to follow the path of a yogini

Machig Labdron was one of Tibet's great meditation masters. She started a whole lineage of practice that still exists today. It has been incorporated in one way or another by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

The paintings on each page were inspired by her biography and illustrate her life and difficulties. Being an inspiration for Buddhist practitioners, it goes beyond the merely biographical.

One thousand years ago villagers and nomads in Tibet had many expectations about how a young girl should behave. Girls were trained in all the tasks of maintaining a household and ensuring that nothing was wasted from the animals. This was the basis for a good marriage.

But Machig carried within her a deep spiritual vision of a different life. Every experience she had of village life convinced her that her place was in the high hills, living in caves and devoting her life to meditation practice. Her struggle to fulfil her vision is recounted in this illustrated brief biography which includes some of her most beautiful and challenging songs.

This life story of Machig Labdron is directly translated from an original Tibetan text by James Low. Paintings by Diana Collins.

Each page has paintings by Diana Collins commissioned by James Low to accompany the text. They illustrate Machig Labdron’s life and difficulties in a way that hopefully brings them to life and is an inspiration for Buddhist practitioners.

Full transcript of these teachings: https://bit.ly/3YLtXbg

Audio file of this video: https://bit.ly/3YfsYQs

English: youtu.be/3xLfMetyBVA (you are here)

English (withou silence cuts): youtu.be/m-VIwru1Rrg

German: youtu.be/m-f3tE83Xko

Russian: youtu.be/1BeNjR2ivh8

Polish: youtu.be/pghmT_dCs-w

Spanish: youtu.be/DlZbcJr8gas

Portuguese: youtu.be/zYRhREYE0NE

Romanian: youtu.be/9xkfTdskCOo

Turkish: youtu.be/qBDGwApof3E

Cover art: Kelly (Pexels)

📱 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=3xLfMetyBVA

14th March 2025. Me First! and the Will to Power. Zoom teachings with James Low.

https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/me-first-and-the-will-to-power-zoom-march-2025/

• ME FIRST

Search for the book "Me first! James Low" on the Amazon website for your desired country.

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.

The original Tibetan account explaining why the Buddhas had to manifest wrathful forms is translated in the book "This Is It" by James Low, (Simply Being, 2020). See chapter 4, "Getting Lost Invites Trouble".

• MACHIG'S WAY

Available in Kindle e-book and hardback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=machig%27s+way+james

A Tibetan girl's struggle to follow the path of a yogini

Machig Labdron was one of Tibet's great meditation masters. She started a whole lineage of practice that still exists today. It has been incorporated in one way or another by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

The paintings on each page were inspired by her biography and illustrate her life and difficulties. Being an inspiration for Buddhist practitioners, it goes beyond the merely biographical.

One thousand years ago villagers and nomads in Tibet had many expectations about how a young girl should behave. Girls were trained in all the tasks of maintaining a household and ensuring that nothing was wasted from the animals. This was the basis for a good marriage.

But Machig carried within her a deep spiritual vision of a different life. Every experience she had of village life convinced her that her place was in the high hills, living in caves and devoting her life to meditation practice. Her struggle to fulfil her vision is recounted in this illustrated brief biography which includes some of her most beautiful and challenging songs.

This life story of Machig Labdron is directly translated from an original Tibetan text by James Low. Paintings by Diana Collins.

Each page has paintings by Diana Collins commissioned by James Low to accompany the text. They illustrate Machig Labdron’s life and difficulties in a way that hopefully brings them to life and is an inspiration for Buddhist practitioners.

Romanian translation: Viorica Constantinescu

English: youtu.be/3xLfMetyBVA

English (withou silence cuts): youtu.be/m-VIwru1Rrg

German: youtu.be/m-f3tE83Xko

Russian: youtu.be/1BeNjR2ivh8

Polish: youtu.be/pghmT_dCs-w

Spanish: youtu.be/DlZbcJr8gas

Portuguese: youtu.be/zYRhREYE0NE

Romanian: youtu.be/9xkfTdskCOo (you are here)

Turkish: youtu.be/qBDGwApof3E

Cover art: Kelly (Pexels)

📱 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=9xkfTdskCOo

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWj2sLZz7Ig

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpy66ykQMv0

James Low and “Why emptiness is liberating. London talk 02.2016”, on YouTube: https://youtu.be/axpwYOiHFXg

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0GRAR8sog

Excerpt from the teaching "Dual Consciousness and Non-Dual Awareness" on Zoom, 18.Jan.2025, available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/G6mr94nEbm0

📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow

🎧 Poscasts of some teachinhgs: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/

📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6-bWNh1K0c

12nd February 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer.

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.

Supporting the sangha of some students from Brazil to travel and attend James' retreat in Portugal this summer, 2025: https://simplybeing.co.uk/autocategory/28876/

"(0:00) Supporting the life blood of the Sangha"

"(14:55) You have said before that we should observe our minds to see how we cheat ourselves. Does this mean that we should try to observe the moment at which we begin to reify our experience? And does this bring us along the path of the eight consciousnesses? If so, could you explain a little how to do this in meditation?"

"(22:26) When it is said, after dying, the consciousness sees and hears, for example, when relatives enjoy the fact that you are dead, how is this possible? It is said that our perceiving is as seeing a copy of the objects. What then about this object, which are surely empty?"

"(28:10) When I identify with awareness itself, when I find myself in awareness, and then release a bit from the aspects of my personalities and the specificities of my identity, I myself also seem to become another person in a way, as if this is a different kind of experience, but there is still a certain center or subtle focal point in my heart area. Is this a dualism to go beyond?"

"(38:29) I have understood that the cleansing effect of Guru Yoga ceases in the moment in which we put mind into thinking voluntarily. I find it hard to distinguish which thoughts are spontaneous and which ones are voluntary. How can I distinguish them?"

Full transcript: https://bit.ly/JL-QnA39-STLBS-Z02-2025

Audio file of this video: https://bit.ly/4jwD8o1

English: youtu.be/HIH-pX6Qv28 (you are here)

English (without silence cuts): youtu.be/Lpt5fLqClb8

German: youtu.be/EfPMyqmwIlw

Russian: youtu.be/eprVDmFmiOA

Polish: youtu.be/wlVpHZ5G3PY

Spanish: youtu.be/5vzvxmFpbqE

Portuguese: youtu.be/o66Atzd6uwY

Romanian: [soon]

Turkish: youtu.be/l8N1CUex308

Playlist “Questions & Answers. Zoom 07.2020 –”: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv-KZQo9b6hRc2WtJW4KWXp8GefCiVa-R

📱 Instagram of excerpts: instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow

🎧 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=HIH-pX6Qv28

12nd February 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer.

Supporting the sangha of some students from Brazil to travel and attend James' retreat in Portugal this summer, 2025: https://simplybeing.co.uk/autocategory/28876/

S1) Supporting the life blood of the Sangha

S2) You have said before that we should observe our minds to see how we cheat ourselves. Does this mean that we should try to observe the moment at which we begin to reify our experience? And does this bring us along the path of the eight consciousnesses? If so, could you explain a little how to do this in meditation?

S3) When it is said, after dying, the consciousness sees and hears, for example, when relatives enjoy the fact that you are dead, how is this possible? It is said that our perceiving is as seeing a copy of the objects. What then about this object, which are surely empty?

S4) When I identify with awareness itself, when I find myself in awareness, and then release a bit from the aspects of my personalities and the specificities of my identity, I myself also seem to become another person in a way, as if this is a different kind of experience, but there is still a certain center or subtle focal point in my heart area. Is this a dualism to go beyond?

S5) I have understood that the cleansing effect of Guru Yoga ceases in the moment in which we put mind into thinking voluntarily. I find it hard to distinguish which thoughts are spontaneous and which ones are voluntary. How can I distinguish them?

Turkish translation: Mustafa mert Çelebi

English: youtu.be/HIH-pX6Qv28

English (without silence cuts): youtu.be/Lpt5fLqClb8

German: youtu.be/EfPMyqmwIlw

Russian: youtu.be/eprVDmFmiOA

Polish: youtu.be/wlVpHZ5G3PY

Spanish: youtu.be/5vzvxmFpbqE

Portuguese: youtu.be/o66Atzd6uwY

Romanian: [soon]

Turkish: youtu.be/l8N1CUex308 (you are here)

📱 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=l8N1CUex308

12nd February 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer.

Supporting the sangha of some students from Brazil to travel and attend James' retreat in Portugal this summer, 2025: https://simplybeing.co.uk/autocategory/28876/

B1) Supporting the life blood of the Sangha

B2) You have said before that we should observe our minds to see how we cheat ourselves. Does this mean that we should try to observe the moment at which we begin to reify our experience? And does this bring us along the path of the eight consciousnesses? If so, could you explain a little how to do this in meditation?

B3) When it is said, after dying, the consciousness sees and hears, for example, when relatives enjoy the fact that you are dead, how is this possible? It is said that our perceiving is as seeing a copy of the objects. What then about this object, which are surely empty?

B4) When I identify with awareness itself, when I find myself in awareness, and then release a bit from the aspects of my personalities and the specificities of my identity, I myself also seem to become another person in a way, as if this is a different kind of experience, but there is still a certain center or subtle focal point in my heart area. Is this a dualism to go beyond?

B5) I have understood that the cleansing effect of Guru Yoga ceases in the moment in which we put mind into thinking voluntarily. I find it hard to distinguish which thoughts are spontaneous and which ones are voluntary. How can I distinguish them?

Russian translation: Marina Samarina

English: youtu.be/HIH-pX6Qv28

English (without silence cuts): youtu.be/Lpt5fLqClb8

German: youtu.be/EfPMyqmwIlw

Russian: youtu.be/eprVDmFmiOA (you are here)

Polish: youtu.be/wlVpHZ5G3PY

Spanish: youtu.be/5vzvxmFpbqE

Portuguese: youtu.be/o66Atzd6uwY

Romanian: [soon]

Turkish: youtu.be/l8N1CUex308

📱 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=eprVDmFmiOA