Tibetan Buddhism and Non-Duality by James Low

[@quasimodoo17]

I've been practicing Buddhism for 25 years. This is one of the best talks I've ever heard. I particularly like the way how James uses concrete examples of every day life.

[@Georgetimothy-d1b]

Imperfection is beautiful Andi enjoy the beauty of imperfection

[@nickgold2012]

I think one of the best talks on nondualism I've ever seen, through the filter of any nondual tradition. ☺🙏

[@thomasbrouwer2771]

Every second of this talk is filled with wisdom and eloquence.

[@tommyharmon214]

Of all the Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, I have never heard someone describe the tradition and it’s process with such clarity.

[@J_heterodox]

James Low is a true master

[@tinychapter.]

I absolutely love how this man talks.

[@renatoalcides5104]

without effort or pride, gentle, serene, alive.

[@heruka111]

Truly a blessing, Id like to imagine that this is how guru rinpoche talked

[@chrisd6982]

An astonishingly cogent and captivating exposition. Bravo!

[@domb0]

“You are a flow of experience, in the radiant field of awareness. And that’s not what you are taught in school.”

[@renatoalcides5104]

such clarity of thought, such intimacy with the subject he is speaking, and a precise and dare I say a humble and heroic clear view of it all. may I have the chance to reach and touch such teachings, a true blessing to hear his voice, follow the wise movement of his hands and the detached wisdom of his heart.

[@theroyalpundit5838]

James is a wonderful teacher, very real, grounded and deeply insightful. He's been a good friend and mentor of mine for many years, I highly recommend him as a guide to consciousness and the human experience of simply being ;)

[@MrFarang10]

I am barely half way into his teaching and sharing of this wonderful dharma talk. And I am already hooked. Thank you for your dharma talk, Mr. Low

[@theunamed2039]

One of my favourite videos on the internet. Keep coming back to it year after year. So perfect

[@makiisbro1129]

Much love to you for sharing this

[@martinweber2178]

how comes, that his sharings always bring so much ease and relaxation to my mind ....

[@hgracern]

Exceptional clarity explained brilliantly. Thank you. 🌷

[@albertineno2443]

Such clarity. Thanks and gratitude J.

[@waltelbow]

This was a gift

[@tonyjoyce9811]

Incredible talk james very precise and enlightening thank you for bothering to post it long live buddhism from tony a buddha living in the community not finding it easy but not giving up

[@danlewis7641]

Wonderful talk. Thank you James.

[@jadeglouglou]

As James signature, always very clear, systematic and straight to the point! It's interesting how even just an intellectual understanding --without realization-- of dzogchen can be of practical use in the relative world

[@artofmetta7401]

lovely, thank u

[@theunamed2039]

His accent seems to have changed dramatically in recent videos. Incredibly eloquent. Pleasure to listen to

[@Wattawalkka]

Your hand gestures remind me of plow work. You're sowing seeds here. This world needs to be naturally sensible if were to advance.

[@sawtoothiandi]

had to watch this about 3 times before i started to get some of it! thank you!!!

[@zyxmyk]

i detect no end to suffering in this jibber jabber.

[@sawtoothiandi]

@@zyxmyk the goal is to step beyond jibber jabber, but a little jibber jabber is often required to point out the exits..

[@manishbhatt500]

I absolutely love his talks. I have just started listening to. The mirror example comes up in almost all spiritual talks and most stop by saying that it’s empty and unaffected by its content but the true realization is that there’s no mirror at all. The “I” is just an emergent property

[@dinocosta6819]

Excellent clear teaching! Thanks!

[@dav220]

master of words and deepest most relatable explanation. thank you buddhamind

[@irenecarlos6039]

Thank you so much! It is very understandable and clear in spite of the complex theme, the way you present teachings. Makes me feel you leave a seed of clarity in my consiousness.

[@antarjyotiantarjyoti7205]

clear like crystal by someone who undoubtedly has the living experience!!!

[@floyd3276]

Dzogchen combined with phowa must have been what I practiced in my last life to allow me to remember in between lives and birth.

[@eshwrnr1581]

Very Clear Presentation!

[@martynbrown1347]

Thankyou James 🙏

[@robertjsmith]

just found this,thanks great talk,i reacon when the people leave and go into the street,they will experience fluidity and emptiness in all things

[@StephenWard9]

I can meditate just watching his hands!

[@gives_bad_advice]

i know what you mean

[@merijnhoogenstrijd9141]

Robert Pirsig would have really valued this talk with it's many references to patterns of quality in static and dynamic expressions which arise out of a moral emptiness (or as Pirsig would say pure dynamic quality) that is reflecting back upon itself. Exceptional clarity in it's statement of the dharma here.

[@johnatkinson7479]

Thank you,great talk

[@lnbartstudio2713]

Wonderful ! Certainly puts materialistic science on notice.

[@pillettadoinswartsh4974]

Science is wrong only in its reliance on materialism as being the ground of all existence. But during the last 100 years, science has begun to show (to itself) cracks in that belief. *And it IS a belief.* The entire scientific method is based upon that belief. 100 years after Quantum Theory, and scientists STILL haven't settled on any one interpretation of it. That is because it appears to rely on the observer................ Science no longer allows room for even philosophy, which is its Godfather. Science was originally called "Natural Philosophy." But materialists have wrested control even from them. While science has given us many nice things, it has also unleashed the terrible power of nuclear war. This is all based upon science's belief in material existence being primary, and ironically threatens the annihilation of it all. On the other hand, everything in Dzogchen, Advaita, and every other non-dual teaching is based upon that which everyone is aware. No beliefs necessary. Consciousness is obviously primary, or science wouldn't have waited until the 1990's to even BEGIN any attempt at studying it. I presume that science will soon need to revise its method to include consciousness. And once it is forced to do this, the game is up. Why scientists struggle so hard for their belief is quizzical, because realization of non-dual reality does not at all constrict or limit scientific discovery. That is the beauty of it. While certain scientists appear hellbent on "disproving" everything non-material. Scientists like Sam Harris already study non-duality teachings. And the cracks will continue to grow and multiply.

[@chrisgardiner6479]

Read Simply Being years ago, just bought Sparks and looking forward to a modern take on the same message.

[@californiamonster8877]

Some Castaneda plus James Low is a good ‘place’ to ‘be’

[@desertportal353]

This is just wonderful. So then Lord Shiva was a very great Lama! ;)

[@blackrhino44]

Awesome. 🙏🏼

[@JasonGafar]

Amazing talk! Can't wait until I've completed my first set of preliminary practices to head forward into Dzogchen.

[@ernestweber5207]

Waiting, huh? ;) Forward? Ah!

[@swetaimbert1114]

Wow! All the best. I’m supposed to do my practice is absolute slack :/

[@waiataaroha]

wrong view.

[@jimji2774]

I know there is great wisdom in Buddhism but by its nature it is very scholarly and can be overly mental and dry for me. This man brings this teaching out of the East and adds an emotional aspect that I can feel to make it altogether palatable. Just purchased Sparks as it was said to be more nonsectarian. Will see if I can digest it or if I just need to see James explain it while I hear his voice and watch his body.

[@bpotter9769]

One all is a flow of - non identified ! - experiences in the radiant field of awareness, all one Non identified ! Is the key principle 🙏❤️ No I, no observer, yet a mirror or a neutral lens 🙏❤️

[@warricksoto3766]

WOW! U r a true WIZARD just reminding IGNORANCE once more that, this is just WHAT IS! This is incredible WISDOM! APPRECIATION HAPPENS HERE! Which is there also...

[@michaclaessen1265]

Brilliant !

[@petermartin5030]

Interestingly I can see how what he is describing relates to the process architecture of consciousness, which I have been researching for several years from an information technology viewpoint.

[@jesuisravi]

many thanks

[@kraftenator]

Thank you : )

[@zyxmyk]

youtube ads are becoming unbearable.

[@gehrhardtschneider]

James has a lot of duality on his bookcase.

[@petermartin5030]

With this insight, expressed here with great clarity, what is the status of the base drives and motivations that keep us alive and reproducing? They seem potentially in opposition to non-duality.

[@ommanipadmehum3143]

For the liberation of all sentient beings

[@gives_bad_advice]

'we are inventing what we seem to be perceiving' interesting.

[@rmarlin]

Everything is frequency (source) not just the physical planes (multiverse) but also the non-physical planes, there is no you nor I but oneness.

[@Tom-lx5re]

Great talk but the number of adverts make it near unwatchable

[@batonmorina5438]

Mate you have so many ads on this video

[@thomasschwarz1973]

I would be interested to here what the author understands/feels about the transience of Buddhism and humanity....? Isn't Buddhism also compounded? Also, assuming the subtlemost nature of mind is not compounded, what percent would you say, of the grosser levels of mind, actually are compounded and will also go away?

[@chrisd6982]

Was it 44.44 on purpose? Who edited this? :)

[@robertkroner4036]

where is this recorded i know this place?

[@eileenlohrer5876]

What book is he referring to?

[@alankuntz6494]

Is he aware of standing in front of that Aleistor Crowley book?

[@cringenaenaebaby3543]

He says his "r"'s like he is french, but speaks with an English accent, very fun voice

[@sawtoothiandi]

its scottish, i believe, not sure which part of scotland though.

[@yoso585]

What is it they say?: Whatever floats your boat!

[@gyurmethlodroe1774]

Now I realise that I am a perfectly rotten tomato

[@WisdomofMindBody]

I have been trying to understand if Kashmir Shaivism is the root of Vajrayana Buddhism. Because both are in Northwest India and tantra. Shaivism says every form is a play of Shiva, known as Shakti. Shiva-Shakti is union of our True Consciousness and form. When I hear you describe Dzochen, you said the same thing in different words. For example, the Dalai Lama gave a Mahakala blessing yesterday in Dharamsala and said growing up, his mother and himself felt very close to Mahakala. Mahakala is the fierce form of Shiva. Yet a documentary of Mahakala said he is the wrathful form of Chenrezig, who is Avolokiteshvara Bodhisattva. How come there are two versions of who Mahakala is? In Shaivism, Mahakala is the only self-originated lingam and is worshipped as a fierce form of Shiva. I wonder if Vajrayana Buddhism, specifically Dzochen is actually a branch that broke away from Shaivism and introduced to Tibet as Vajrayana Buddhism.

[@lobsangtharchin3235]

Sir if our inherent nature is pure then why different relative thoughts manifest different sentient beings in Samsara?it should remain pure without relative thoughts n feelings.

[@MrCookding]

I think the word "pure" is used due to lack of words describing what is unborn or never come into being.

[@independencemp3]

flow of experiences…

[@freeman669]

❤️

[@frankfeldman6657]

So the goal is to attain the oceanic consciousness of infants? It seems to boil down to that.

[@FirstPersonHood]

See that oceanic consciousness is already realized. headless.org

[@alankuntz6494]

Well we certainly got a introduction to Aleistor Crowley too. ;)

[@sawtoothiandi]

he was a yogi too, of a sort

[@babygorl9541]

Who's that, keep hearing about him

[@alankuntz6494]

@@babygorl9541 He's basically a sex magick left hand hermetic kabbalist. Called himself the Great Beast 666.The founder of Thelema. Grew up in a puritan environment and gave his soul to the devil because they were boring as hell hahaha. That other book on the shelf titled "Moon Child" That's a goody too.

[@alankuntz6494]

@@sawtoothiandi Yeah he tryed a bunch of stuff. He was a advocate of Pranayama and talked about a lot of different types of meditation practices too. You could say he was a Vajrayana tantrik with out the Vajrayana or buddhist ethics or precepts. I guess Mr Low want's folks to tune into him or he wouldn't be standing in front of his books. He should be standing in front of Daniel Cozorts book "Highest Yoga Tantra" That would be a much better introduction to Vajrayana sex Magick. It certainly explains the direction of possible sanity and enlightenment you might want to go. It explains the stages of generation of the winds or kundalini how to lock that in the central channel, what happens and what you experience if it's not or is. Explains what the completion stage of generation of the winds (kundalini ).Talks about real or imaginary sexual consorts, blue drop visualization meditation, meditating on the empties or emptiness etc etc . It's pretty heavy. Beware, you get into all that stuff you could lose your mind.. That's kind of the whole point.

[@sawtoothiandi]

@@alankuntz6494 think i lost mine a few sun laps ago. yeah, regards crowley, his personal ethics sure seemed to be deficient from a regular buddhist viewpoint. though i wonder how much of his shock-rock aesthetic is in the vein of alice cooper, black sabbath, marilyn manson et al?

[@69VAJRA]

I know how it feels to have enlightment He cant explain that Better he show method in certain timeframe to be in higher awareness then person see by him self without endless explenation But some people makes meanless talk to a job

[@KREN12623]

❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@baguiobroom1]

Thank you.. clearly explained.. may i share also what i find similar to dzogchen in the christian tradition.. pls look up luisa piccarreta...google divine will

[@chandrakishorepythonchered2823]

According to our (Parikshith Religious Members) current theory, we believe that there must be two consciousness , one is constant and the other as variable. We are imposing constant consciousness as god, who is independent always wealthy never experiences poor. Whereas variable consciousness is dependent on constant consciousness, who experiences both richness and poorness. And agree with you that variable consciousness can have the ability to experience non Duality or eternity. www.parikshithcommunity.com

[@lobsangtharchin3235]

If we are pure from the beginning then why all the negative emotions coming from the pure ground mind?

[@MrCookding]

We are deluded from the first moment and continue to be deluded.

[@nik8099]

@@MrCookding It doesn't help with western materialist science. By the way, Buddhists imo shouldn't be appealing to science.

[@MrCookding]

@@nik8099 theoretical buddhist or experimental buddhist?

[@nik8099]

@@MrCookding What are the differences? But both I guess.

[@MrCookding]

@@nik8099 We should approach Buddhism like an experimental scientist moving toward realizing the nature of mind (not by concepts). In the teaching, it also mentions we should approach it like a smart businessman.

[@thomasschwarz1973]

"Endless preocupation that countries have about immigration", how about taking responsibility for that in your own relgion? Did you know that Sera Jay and all Buddhist Monasteries that I know of (and all Western Universitites) have strong walls, and strict systems of both integration and rejection? That is natural. You will find it in your garden, since the origin of Karma... ...so yes, the meaning of life is to have a warm heart, and to sincerely radiate that warmth, and so in many profound ways, borders become untenable and cold hearted. But better to express that realization than to attack the walls that demarcate one culture or religion from another.... right?

[@bogdanjablonski5083]

MISTER! I FOUND YOU HONEST AND QUALIFIED BUDDHIST....BUT WHAT ABOUT PAIN9STRICTLY) BODY GIVEN BY CHRISTIANS JEWS AND OTHERS?

[@DrMARDOC]

THIS IS A. BODHISATTVA

[@nerroseven]

GEMS? 3,

[@szymonw4355]

Hahaha good laugh, BS sir infinte and infinte as you said

[@shreyayonjan4405]

4444 😮

[@swingtrade2]

has no idea...........................

[@pillettadoinswartsh4974]

well done. impossible to tell if you are trolling, perplexed, or enlightened............

[@alankuntz6494]

Well you tell us about it then..What's your idea?

[@iamessence6268]

What you have in mind?

[@johnwong7200]

Too much talk. Talk is in itself dualistic. Non-dualism is no-thought, and no-thought is no-thought, empty. Talking is thought. So talking only takes one away from no-thought. Truly, just walk it, not talk it, literally.

[@jampasherab5729]

To share the teachings is considered the best kind of generosity, like Buddha Shakyamuni himself did, non less than the source of all this wisdom

[@FirstPersonHood]

Nondualism is a word that simply points to the fact that all phenomenon (everything) is the play of duality.Once duality is understood it is simply recognized that living is nondual. headless.org

[@babygorl9541]

Non-duality doesn't mean never making sounds.....

[@joanmarietsultrimparkin1821]

Not that clear .. too much secular emphasis on words that are forceful not force fields.this man needs a vacation. Or a long silent retreat.. In high mountains.

[@kf1559]

Found this after Waking Up App.X

[@tenzindasel1780]

Brilliant!

[@tatjanak7847]

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