Work of Art by Hiroshige from an exhibition at the British Museum

This recording is now available…from the Audio/Video tab…
If you hover over the down arrow you’ll find lots of other recordings there…from James’ commentary to and translation of The Dhammapada, up through a staircase of other books and teachings.
The Open Door of Emptiness is at the top, and if that’s your current interest you can just click here for that set.

The contact form is now working again thanks to the vital efforts and skills of the singer song-writer sound engineer who’s been keeping this site in shape and working on the recordings, for over a decade… and latterly also working with a serious health condition…

A lady with whom I was very happy to spend some time with in Tso-Pema back in 2010 got back in touch today after gap of nearly fifteen years…Hello again Alicia …!

We were both helpful to each other in different ways…and I know that any help I was able to give was possible because of other helpful connections I’d encountered…and so it goes in this astonishing illusory display of life…

Our first names are the same as they were then but how we are now … cannot possibly be.
There have been billions of different displays called ‘Wendy’ and called ‘Alicia’ during this long time…showing these qualities sometimes, others other times, to a greater or lesser degree…depending on causes and conditions (and the interpreter’s perspective)… all going under the same name!
Are these impostors of the real Alicia or Wendy? : ) no, as we know, there isn’t one…but each has a common denominator of openness or emptiness… and with spaciousness as the basis the greatest possibility for connection becomes available …
Fifteen years makes a difference to the body for sure, but the potential for freshness is unchanged…

However much the disconnection and dislocation around us increases …movements of warm, and sometimes surprising connection, outside the box of assumptions, continue to blossom in the world …

The other good news relates to recent James Low’s book publications, Natural Freedom and The Deep and Vast Freedom of the Dharma which deserved their own post…