EPISODE · May 7, 2025 · 3 MIN
Everything is within here and now
from James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings · host James Low
Extract from "Me First! and the Will to Power. Zoom 03.2025": https://youtu.be/3xLfMetyBVATranscript:Everything is within here and now. If I tell you that five years ago I was still working in the hospital, you might take that as a little plane and go off, "Oh yes, he worked in a hospital." But the hospital where I worked is not the same. The staff have changed. The administration has changed. There is nowhere to go. The thought of five years ago is here and now. So, there and then is a movie showing in the cinema of here and now. And this cinema is always open, and it shows endless movies.So, this is the nirmanakaya, or the apparitional manifestation, in which we take on many patterns and shapes, but none of them is definitive. Nobody knows me. I don't know me. We can know objects, or at least that is the delusion of the duality of subject and object. But I am not a thing, and I don't live in a world of things. All sentient beings are processes of revelation. They have the particular patterning of that kind of quality of experience, which is, if you like, their identity for a while, but that's already a reification, a solidification. Rather, we could see it as a pattern.The different birds fly in different ways. The small birds, like the sparrow and the robin, have to work very hard. Their wings are not big enough to catch the wind. But the eagle extends these huge wings and finds the wind and is carried. So, all the people we know are manifesting the unique specificity of their being in the world, which means that each encounter we have with cows and dogs and people are opportunities for us to be flexible, receptive, and responsive.This incredible diversity of forms of movement in space is not produced by the specificity of individual identity. There is no self-guaranteeing patterning machine operating in any sentient being. Our experience is participative, not separative.📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr9CLgpZquM
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Extract from "Me First! and the Will to Power. Zoom 03.2025": https://youtu.be/3xLfMetyBVATranscript:Everything is within here and now. If I tell you that five years ago I was still working in the hospital, you might take that as a little plane and go off, "Oh yes, he worked in a hospital." But the hospital where I worked is not the same. The staff have changed. The administration has changed. There is nowhere to go. The thought of five years ago is here and now. So, there and then is a movie showing in the cinema of here and now. And this cinema is always open, and it shows endless movies.So, this is the nirmanakaya, or the apparitional manifestation, in which we take on many patterns and shapes, but none of them is definitive. Nobody knows me. I don't know me. We can know objects, or at least that is the delusion of the duality of subject and object. But I am not a thing, and I don't live in a world of things. All sentient beings are processes of revelation. They have the particular patterning of that kind of quality of experience, which is, if you like, their identity for a while, but that's already a reification, a solidification. Rather, we could see it as a pattern.The different birds fly in different ways. The small birds, like the sparrow and the robin, have to work very hard. Their wings are not big enough to catch the wind. But the eagle extends these huge wings and finds the wind and is carried. So, all the people we know are manifesting the unique specificity of their being in the world, which means that each encounter we have with cows and dogs and people are opportunities for us to be flexible, receptive, and responsive.This incredible diversity of forms of movement in space is not produced by the specificity of individual identity. There is no self-guaranteeing patterning machine operating in any sentient being. Our experience is participative, not separative.📱 Instagram of excerpts: https://instagram.com/SBSangha_JamesLow🎧 Poscasts of some teachings: https://simplybeing.co.uk/news/podcasts/📆 Learn more about future events: https://simplybeing.co.uk/events/Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr9CLgpZquM
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