James Low – Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings
11th December 2024. 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.
Index
"(00:00) What is the relation of wisdom and compassion?"
"(09:21) How to work with obsessive thoughts, fantasies, and memories that arise during the day?"
"(016:24) How to let go of a strong attachment to a person that causes pain?"
"(22:58) I can't let go of my feelings. I just stay with them until they vanish. How to live through this pain?"
"(26:55) Can one gain a fortunate rebirth in a Buddha pure land, like Sukavati, if one has not attained stable trekchö in this lifetime as a human being?"
"(28:21) If you can gain rebirth in a pure land, how could this happen in the bardo?"
"(30:49) How does tummo support trekchö?"
"(32:04) In sickness, is there a balance between seeking remedies — orthodox or holistic medicine — and just being with what is and allowing whatever condition is present to find its own healing movement?"
"(41:06) Somebody has sent a quotation from Padmasambhava. When he was born, he made this statement: "My father is Samantabhadra and my mother is Samantabhadri." These are the two forms we see in sexual union — the united form of the primordial Buddha. "I belong to the family of nonduality, of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I consume concepts of duality as my diet. I am the unborn sphere of all phenomena." What does it mean?"
Video at https://youtu.be/Lh_sFJI2GZ4?si=Q56Q7C8jOEiJytmJ