![]() In order to bathe in the living stream of the dzogchen lineages it is important to make steps to gain transmission from a living teacher. We enhance our clarity and compassion in order to benefit all sentient beings who suffer due to ignorance of their essential goodness. In this way we develop humility and gratitude, diminishing our ego’s tendency to feed itself on everything it finds. Rather, see the dharma as a medicine, see the teacher as a doctor and see yourself as person needing help. Thus it is said: do not consider the dharma to be like the musk gland on the belly of a musk deer do not consider the teacher to be like a musk deer do not consider yourself to be like the hunter. In this tradition students are encouraged to develop a simple and straightforward attitude to study and practice. There are audio and video recordings and some transcripts of public talks and teaching retreats in Europe. The purpose of this website is to offer the key points of dzogchen, illustrated with examples from everyday life. As this shines forth all the accumulations of tension, anxiety and assumptions that bind and restrict us are released without effort. Meditation reveals this delusion for what it is and awakens us to our primordial integration. The ignoring of the intrinsic ground generates an illusion of subject and object as real and separate entities. Our meditations help you access both your individual body & the One body. We offer an ever-expanding library of meditation recordings, a live-stream monthly community meditation, and curated meditation experiencesindividualized for you. These teachings, the heart of the primordial buddha Samantabhadra, have been present in our world for many thousands of years, passed on in unbroken lineages in Tibet, and now spreading out in the world. Simple Being is a guided meditation series for beginning to advanced meditators. ![]() Dzogchen teaching recalls us to this open purity which we have never left, yet habitually disregard. ![]() This is dzogchen, the wholeness and completion within which we live. Simply being is the ground or basis of every occurrence it is the unchanging awareness which reveals the ever-changing play of experience. They are intended as a support and stimulus for practice and an encouragement to pursue your own further study. They are not structured as academic explanations although they offer clarity of explanation. The teachings were given spontaneously according to the energy of each event, since the transmission depends on the mood of the occasion. The purpose of this website is to make freely available the dharma teachings given by James Low in the tradition of C.R. ![]()
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