Spring 2024

The book ‘Finding Freedom’ contains texts from the Theravadin Mahayana and Dzogchen traditions, translated by James Low. 

Each text is  preceded by a comprehensive introduction wherein James elucidates the depth and value inherent in these three approaches….
opening up access to the text itself, the richness of the view to which they relate…and also their connection.

This set of recordings is of the Introduction to the text ‘Sharp Weapon Wheel’  from  the middle Mahayana section, of  the book…
It is in five parts and followed by C.R. Lama’s foreword…as hopefully this will make it easier to engage with than one long recording.

Each of us finds our own way deeper into the dharma… in the foreword to this text C.R. Lama says   ‘the main teaching it gives is the cutting of the ego desire ignorance and so on’ …

How to  develop the necessary availability and insightfulness for the meaning to ‘seep into the marrow of our bones’?… this Introduction explains.

The final paragraph is ‘With this we can move to the third stage of peaceful equanimity free of attraction and aversion. For this to ripen into fruition we must plant the seed of enlightenment in the ever-available, ever-fecund ground of emptiness and water it daily with our loving heart.’

Blooming marvellous… !