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James Low – Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings

Questions & Answers 21. Zoom 04.2022

50 min • 8 december 2024

6 April 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) There is often an instruction "observe your own mind and find out how it is". Is this open sitting practice the same as or different from guru yoga?"


"(12:06) Have you ever witnessed a miracle? If so, please tell us about it."


"(13:10) Do you consider mudras helpful? If yes, which ones in particular?"


"(15:16) Is psychotherapy useful as an adjunct or a support for dzogchen?"


"(18:53) How to introduce children to this dzogchen view? What topics at what ages?"


"(27:31) Should we do long retreats or short retreats or just one day? What is good?"


"(31:57) Our everyday experience is of a body walking in space. Is this more accurately the space in the mind, so we are not in space, but space is in the mind?"


"(40:08) At the moment, I conceptually understand that what I see is like a reflection in the mirror. But this is still a concept. How to get direct experience of this?"


Video at https://youtu.be/0niSASsoVQA?si=vpKV-fuKrqojRn1R

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