Happily the next audio recording (19) from the book Lotus Source, is now available…
It is of James Low’s introduction and translation of the practice treasure-text…

Once, when talking with James, I went into a bit of a riff of gratitude…
He listened and responded with… ‘Merry Christmas!!!’
It wasn’t Christmas time : )… but humility that spoke to me.

So many beneficial interactions have occurred to bring this book into our hands and facilitated our ability to appreciate and make use of its contents…
If this is our path then in time …through open-heartedly engaging with the practice… the profound truth, of which this is a direct expression, can reveal itself…like the moon coming out from behind the clouds. So our appreciation widens and deeps…as tension resolves in openness.

The beautiful flowers in the photo have brought delight each year since Sarah Allen ( whose input you’ll come across in connection with books and on the web-site) gave me some seeds from her ‘Morning Glory’ plant.

Opening from a cream furled-umbrella shaped bud, each flower last for just one day before changing shape and colour – from blue to mauve – and falling from the vine….
But there are many flowers even, this year, in December…

So may our Christmas-time be fruitful…maybe if you haven’t yet read James last two posts perhaps there’ll be time… to metabolise them, taking their wisdom deeper… as I will.
And may we flourish and flower in the New Year and on…inseparable from the dharma-vine, with it’s root of truth… until the end of time

P.S. Cracking two audio Christmas Crackers with you!

– of sound and silence…there was both, with dharma surprise and enjoyment in performance artist Marina Abramović’s selection Desert Island Discs on BBC radio 4 on 3rd December
– and movement and silence…in Marcel Marceau’s story told by his daughters…on Saturday 9th December

(you’d need to access BBC Sounds to find these)

image (wikipedia)