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Meditation Teacher helping people connect with their essential nature and relax

05/11/2026

You won't make any progress in the practice if you keep trying harder, it's not about trying, it's about relaxing the urge to try that allows you to start to be at home in the true given, that which is there from the very beginning

- James Low

05/11/2026

In dzogchen we want to see without looking. This goes against all the education we have had. If you look then you can see, if you listen then you will hear. That is to say that hearing and the seeing is the fruit or the result of the effort of looking and listening. This is what we are familiar with but in dzogchen the central principle is don't make effort. Effort, activity is always connective and constructive. What is being connected is subject and object. When that pathway of subject and object gets connected then you have the production of a narrative interpretation of what is occuring

- James Low

05/11/2026

Knowledge makes you stupid

Seeing keeps you fresh

- James Low

05/11/2026

There is no such thing as communication. There are only two things: There is successful miscommunication, and un-successful miscommunication

- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

03/11/2026

In the dzogchen tradition being at peace with one's self, being relaxed in a state of openness, is not elevated by happiness and not dimished by sorrow. It is a satisfaction which continues all the time

- James Low

02/11/2026

So to realise that your own nature is spacious, is infinite, allows you to just relax. You feel ah I'm ok. I'm ok as I am without doing anything more than breathing in and out I'm ok. This is the meaning of dzogchen, it's fine, nothing more to do

- James Low

02/11/2026

When you start to watch your own mind you will realise that you are completely insane. This omnipotent fantasy. Ego king of the world. This is the recipe for disappointment and sadness and grief

- James Low

31/10/2026

Due to causes and conditions we are different. This is so important to see. We're not trying to be reliable. 'I am myself, under all conditions I will be myself'. This is a doctrine of madness because we are part of the world. The myth of the lonely hero. The one who has to carry the burden of world on their own shoulders. This is a punishing delusion. We're in it together

- James Low

29/10/2026

Freshness means not knowing

- James Low

29/10/2026

It's best to be an easygoing imbecile. That is how you should be, an easygoing idiot. Recognize once and don't worry too much about it. Merely carry on and don't speculate a lot, like an unintelligent person who doesn't question too much about things and is also easygoing, kind of relaxed, not upset about this or that.

- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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The Valley Retreat
Truro
TR11TW

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+447966237344

Website

http://www.thevalleyretreat.co.uk/

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