This series approaches Dzogchen from the angle of daily life: what can this thousand-year-old tradition bring to our daily lives? Can we live better thanks to Dzogchen? Concrete testimonies from people who practice this tradition, completed by the enlightenment of specialists and application advices to be implemented directly!
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James Low is a disciple and teacher in the Byangter and Khordong lineages of the late Chhimed Rigdzin Lama. James regularly teaches the principles of dzogchen Buddhism in Europe and he publishes translations and commentaries from time to time. Many of his seminars have been recorded and transcribed. They are now being put on his website to provide access for those seeking to deepen their dharma understanding and explore how to apply it in the complexities of everyday life. Learn more about f ...
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This "What is Dzogchen?" serie presents the basics of the tradition of the Great Perfection. For a good start!
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The Lion-Faced Guru Podcast - Pragmatic Explorations of Nondual Tantra, Vajrayana & Dzogchen
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The Lion-Faced Guru Podcast is all about the exploration of pragmatic and effective Yogic practice that leads to Full Enlightenment i.e. Buddhahood.
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Saraswati Bhawan is a non-profit Buddhist organization founded by Acharya Dawa Chhodak Rinpoche and Khandro Kunzang. We offer an ongoing selection of archival audio teachings by the late Lama Dawa Rinpoche, as well as regular podcasts by Khandro Kunzang.
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Join Shambhavi Sarasvati for a weekly exploration of self-realization, death, love, devotion, and waking up while living in a messy world. Satsang is an ancient spiritual practice from India. It means "being in reality together." During satsang, people gather with a teacher to learn, ask questions, find community, chant and sing. Shambhavi gives satsang in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere. The dharma talks offered here are recordings of the live satsang. Shambhavi is the spiritual director of ...
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A podcast about Buddhist practice with a focus on Dzogchen, Buddhist visionary experiences, nonduality, and the power of pith instructions and direct advice. Pristine Awareness is devoted to exploring the living heart of Buddhist practice. Each episode invites listeners into a world where wisdom and direct experience meet, illuminating the path of nonduality and natural presence. Through conversations, reflections, stories of Buddhist visionary experiences, and concise teachings, Pristine Aw ...
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Donald Rothberg, PhD, has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976, and has also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice and the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy. Formerly on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, and Saybrook Graduate School, he currently writes and teaches classes, groups and retreats on meditation, daily life practice, spirituality and psychology, and socially engaged Buddhism. An organizer, teacher, and former board me ...
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This is BodhiHeart, a podcast with in depth teachings on meditation and Tibetan Buddhism with Khenpo Sherab Sangpo. Our teacher, Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, is a monk and professor in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He trained with some of the greatest meditation masters of Tibet, starting when he was seven years old. In addition to mastering many profound teachings of the Buddhist path, he spent several years meditating in solitary retreat. He travels the world teaching at monasteries in ...
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Böncast, a new podcast for the worldwide Bön community, is brought to you by The Door to Bön, which is the media wing of Yeru Bön Center. Yeru Bön Center is dedicated to preserving and practicing the authentic Tibetan YungDrung Bön tradition. Learn more at doortobon.org and yeruboncenter.org.
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Playful conversations — about embodied awakening AND good explanations.
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Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das is a podcast that illuminates many aspects of the spiritual path via dharma talks and interviews with Surya Das' fellow spiritual teachers and peers. Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “The Western Lama.”
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4/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025
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8:52:2230 July - 9 August 2025. Seeing and imagining. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. Imagining is the play of the ground source. If the source is seen then all that is imagined is non-dual illusion, like a mirage or a dream. If the ground source is not seen and opened to then all that i…
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Dzogchen and the “relief” of emotions on a daily basis (14) - Digital Loneliness
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22:02In this three-episode miniseries, we focus on a topic increasingly present in contemporary society: the feeling of loneliness. Throughout the series, we explore the many facets of loneliness through the lens of Dzogchen, aiming to understand its inner workings. In this second episode, Damien Brohon and Alessandra Horn explore digital loneliness: ex…
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Giving, Receiving, Devotion, and the Purpose of Your Life
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17:17Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Our podcast is recorded live at Satsang with Shambhavi and delivered to you each week fresh a…
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2/2 Self-liberating understanding. Eifel 10.2015
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7:13:5215-18 October, 2015. Meditation retreat in Kamalashila Institute, in the Eifel region of German, based on Chapter 10 of James Low's book Simply Being, which is a translation of Patrul Rinpoche's text "Self-liberating Understanding". "Integrating the view, meditation and activity in dzogchen. We will focus on the self liberation of experience, which…
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Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Our podcast is recorded live at Satsang with Shambhavi and delivered to you each week fresh a…
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Donald Rothberg: Skillful Desire, Skillful Aversion, and the Winter Solstice
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1:01:55(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We continue with the exploration opened up last week in our examination of "skillful desire," starting again with the common misunderstanding of the Buddha's teachings as suggesting giving up all wanting of the pleasant and all not wanting of the unpleasant. There are, to be sure, some passages in the teachings which…
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Exploring Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences, with a Closing Reflection on Skillful Aversion
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37:54(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with settling for about 8 minutes followed by about the same time with basic mindfulness practice. Then we explore "moderate" experiences of pleasant or unpleasant when they occur, whether a bodily experience, an emotion, or a thought (or a mix), experiencing pleasant or unpleasant and seeing whether there f…
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3/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025
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10:56:4130 July - 9 August 2025. Seeing and imagining. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. Imagining is the play of the ground source. If the source is seen then all that is imagined is non-dual illusion, like a mirage or a dream. If the ground source is not seen and opened to then all that i…
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A Lot of Topics and Anandamayi Ma's Playfulness
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16:27Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Our podcast is recorded live at Satsang with Shambhavi and delivered to you each week fresh a…
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sometimes people interpret the Buddha's teachings as suggesting giving up all wanting of the pleasant and all not wanting the unpleasant, and that equanimity has no wanting or not wanting; there are some passages in the teachings which seem to suggest this approach. However, the Buddha in a number of ways pointed to …
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Exploring Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences, with a Closing Reflection on Skillful Desire and Skillful Aversion
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40:59(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with settling for about 7-8 minutes followed by about the same time with basic mindfulness practice. Then we explore "moderate" experiences of pleasant or unpleasant when they occur, whether a bodily experience, an emotion, or a thought (or a mix), experiencing pleasant or unpleasant and seeing whether there…
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1/2 Self-liberating understanding. Eifel 10.2015
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8:50:5915-18 October, 2015. Meditation retreat in Kamalashila Institute, in the Eifel region of German, based on Chapter 10 of James Low's book Simply Being, which is a translation of Patrul Rinpoche's text "Self-liberating Understanding". "Integrating the view, meditation and activity in dzogchen. We will focus on the self liberation of experience, which…
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Spanda, Codependence, and Being Untethered
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18:31Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Our podcast is recorded live at Satsang with Shambhavi and delivered to you each week fresh a…
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2/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025
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11:33:4930 July - 9 August 2025. Seeing and imagining. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. Imagining is the play of the ground source. If the source is seen then all that is imagined is non-dual illusion, like a mirage or a dream. If the ground source is not seen and opened to then all that i…
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Mindful therapy: beliefs and assumptions, a buddhist perspective. Hereford 11.2011
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3:24:1918 November 2011. James Low gave this workshop for practising therapists in Hereford, UK. “Our open heart touching and opening the heart of the other. This is non-dual contact, the meeting of sky with sky, the heart of Buddhist ethics.” ~ James Low James starts with an introduction to the traditional Tibetan view of mindfulness, then relates this t…
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Doubt, Immersion, and the Livingness of Everything
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19:38Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Our podcast is recorded live at Satsang with Shambhavi and delivered to you each week fresh a…
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In this short, audio-only podcast Lama Pema discusses the three ways people become Dharma teachers. Connect with Lama Pema: www.pristine-awareness.org OR https://pemaduddul.org/By Pristine Awareness Podcast
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Time, Accomplishments, and Being a Daughter
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The Deathless and the Dying. London 11.2025
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2:28:449th November 2025. The Deathless and the Dying. Public talk with James Low at Lekdanling in East London, England, at the invitation of the Shang Shung Institute of Tibetan Studies. The focus will be on illusion as the middle way between the familiar binary opposites of birth and death, health and sickness, life as flow and within that, loss and gri…
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1/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025
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9:56:411/4 Seeing and imagining. [EN-PT-ES] Sintra 07-08.2025 30 July - 9 August 2025. Seeing and imagining. Dzogchen retreat with James Low at Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, Colares, in Sintra, Portugal. Imagining is the play of the ground source. If the source is seen then all that is imagined is non-dual illusion, like a mirage or a dream. If the …
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Spiritual Names, Spiritual Refuge, and a Rebel Yell
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Thinking our way through the world helps maintain the illusion that we're in control. Following the wisdom of the heart, we learn to adapt spontaneously and enjoy life's unfolding. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Our podcast is recorded live at Satsang with Shambhavi and delivered to you each week fresh and new. This episode was recorded in D…
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Episode 13 - The 3 series of Dzogchen : the Man ngag dé
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22:36In the thirteenth episode of “What is Dzogchen?”, the third and last of the “three series” (*sde gsum*) of Dzogchen, Nils Derboule and Mila Khyentse Rinpoche continue to give us an initial glimpse of the Dzogchen tradition, highlighting the *Men ngag dé* series (*man ngag sde*), which is the third of the "three series" (*sde gsum*). **Host:** Grégo…
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Devotion, Maturation and the Guru with Olivia Clementine
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54:12By Kunzang Dechen Chodon
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42 Questions & Answers. [EN-IT] Zoom 06.2025
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42:58June 4th 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer. 1) Is consciousness and mind the same in Buddhism? Is my mind which is deluded and has its own habits and tendencies the same as the mind which is primordial, unborn and clear? If so why is the mind which I call mine deluded? 2) Are the explanat…
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Spiritual Practice and Our Relationship to the World
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15:24Difficult times call on us to be less self concerned, to care about others, and to learn to relate to everyone as family. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Our podcast is recorded live at Satsang with Shambhavi and delivered to you each week fresh and new. This episode was recorded in June 2025. JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG AND KIRTAN Please …
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Donald Rothberg: The Three Ways of Seeing That Bring Liberating Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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1:07:37(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a brief general account of the three ways of liberating insight, we look at each of the three--insights into impermanence, dukkha, and not-self--with a longer treatment of insight into not-self. There is an emphasis especially on how we practice in order to come to these insights. We close with a passage from A…
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2/2 Tantra & Dzogchen. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2025
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7:30:44May 14th – 18th, 2025. Tantra & Dzogchen. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Wilga, Poland. The delusion that we exist as definable entities is the basis of all limited and limiting experience. Through dissolving our contrived identity into that of Padmasambhava, we become free to act in whatever ways will help sentient beings. The view of dzogchen…
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Donald Rothberg: Developing Samadhi (Concentration): Its Importance, How Samadhi Deepens, and the Challenges of Practicing to Develop Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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1:02:41(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We review the nature of samadhi, how it is a natural quality that surfaces in many human experiences, and its importance in meditation (and the teachings of the Buddha). We briefly examine the five jhanic factors that point to how samadhi deepens. We also look at several of the main challenges that arise as we practi…
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Our Great Power, Fear on the Path, and Functional Boundaries
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17:50Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Our podcast is recorded live at Satsang with Shambhavi and delivered to you each week fresh a…
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Donald Rothberg: Bringing Our Practice to Challenging Conversations and Communications, Including with Those with Different Views and Perspectives 2
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1:04:23(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We continue the exploration from last week, beginning with Donald sharing a few of his experiences of being able to learn and practice when there have been differences of views and even conflicts. Then there is a review of some what we explored last week, including the importance in a functioning democracy of navigat…
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Developing Concentration and Mindfulness, and Then Exploring One's Views and Opinions
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39:01(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with settling and developing more concentration for about 10-12 minutes. Then we shift to mindfulness practice. In the last third of the session, there are instructions for exploring one's own views and opinions, including in relationship to others (connected with the talk).…
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1/2 Tantra & Dzogchen. [EN-PL] Wilga 05.2025
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8:16:45May 14th – 18th, 2025. Tantra & Dzogchen. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Wilga, Poland. The delusion that we exist as definable entities is the basis of all limited and limiting experience. Through dissolving our contrived identity into that of Padmasambhava, we become free to act in whatever ways will help sentient beings. The view of dzogchen…
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Following Instructions, Beauty and Tenderness, and Being in Temples
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Donald Rothberg: Bringing Our Practice to Challenging Conversations and Communications, Including with Those with Different Views and Perspectives 1
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1:02:35(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How do we bring our practice to challenging conversations and discussions, including there are major differences in views and positions, whether on spiritual or social-politlcal or daily life matters? This is both a perennial practice question and a particularly important one in the current times. We begin our first …
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2/2 Indestructible freedom. [EN-ES] Barcelona 11.2018
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9:18:26November 8th – 11th, 2018. Indestructible freedom. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Barcelona, Spain. “The retreat will focus on settling into the clarity which is present in all experience. Through meditation, including some of the methods of the semdzin and using chapter 8 of "Simply Being" we will open the space within which all obscurations a…
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Objectless Meditation in the Dzogchen Semde Tradition
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5:38This short podcast is an instruction on objectless meditation in the Dzogchen Semde tradition given by Lama Pema Düddul. This instruction is based on teachings that Lama Pema received from Rigdzin Jamyang Tenphel, who received them from his teachers, including Kyabje Togden Amtrin. Connect with us: www.pristine-awareness.com…
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Self-Reflection Is What God Does [Rebroadcast]
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20:13Shambhavi unpacks "vimarsha" and "prakasha" from the perspective of Trika Shaivism. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi This rebroadcasted episode was originally published way back in October 2018. We've been podcasting satsang since 2016! Occasionally we rebroadcast podcasts from our catalog so that our listeners can rediscover or discover for t…
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Dzogchen and the “relief” of emotions on a daily basis (13) : Feelings of Loneliness
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26:48In this three-episode miniseries, we focus on a topic increasingly present in contemporary society: the feeling of loneliness. Throughout the series, we explore the many facets of loneliness through the lens of Dzogchen, aiming to understand its inner workings. In this first episode, Mila Khyentse Rinpoche and Arnaud Buisson, a psychiatrist at the …
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1/2 Indestructible freedom. [EN-ES] Barcelona 11.2018
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9:18:26November 8th – 11th, 2018. Indestructible freedom. Dzogchen retreat with James Low in Barcelona, Spain. “The retreat will focus on settling into the clarity which is present in all experience. Through meditation, including some of the methods of the semdzin and using chapter 8 of "Simply Being" we will open the space within which all obscurations a…
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Losing Our Sense of Importance, Motives for Sharing, and Effort in Sadhana
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21:57Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Our podcast is recorded live at Satsang with Shambhavi and delivered to you each week fresh a…
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