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James Low – Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings

Questions & Answers 23. Zoom 09.2022

56 min • 8 december 2024

28 September 2022. 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 one of the translators.


Index

"(00:00) Becoming more conscious of how I am a pulsation of change in a changing environment of diverse manifestations, Ioften feel disturbed by the excess of stimuli which I fuse with, then l cut off and enclose myself in a narrow view. How to avoid this happening?"


"(13:06) l have experienced that my intentions expressed in prayer are fulfilled. How does our mind and intention influence reality?"


"(19:38) When trying to stay with anger without merging and simultaneously letting whatever arises flow, l experience self-judging thoughts, such as "you shouldn't" or "that's not nice". This quickly leads to physical discomfort like a subtle form of irritation. Is this a sign that I have merged with the reaction to the judging thoughts?"


"(36:06) I have difficulty integrating the experiences, stroke recollections of rigpa, emptiness and non-duality. Yet only when I come out of it, I am able to refer to concepts of rigpa, emptiness and oneness."


Video at https://youtu.be/gjg46nZnmfA?si=K57WojKNdP-YInu2

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