Working with change and impermanence. Macclesfield  talk 11 – video… and Index

This was the concluding talk given at what was, at the time, the Khandro Ling Centre in Macclesfield, England and the recording of this talk is the last of the outstanding! recordings which, over time, have filtered through from the generous sponsor of the centre out to you the wider audience.

Although at the time, due to causes and conditions, his own interest had waned… as the wider interest in them became clear, Chris Coppock who created the earlier recordings, got them out of storage in his garage and, as time was available, made archive quality copies from the Master DVDs …sending the copies over to me for Barbara, or later Pedro, to publish…

This video is comprised of the three recordings, but he was only able to send me copies of the first two as the third was compromised in some way.

I asked around to see whether anyone had a copy they could lend me…but none was forthcoming. Most of us were buying the CD sets at the time, ten to twenty years ago.

Looking on the web it seemed that although the Master couldn’t be copied it might still be possible to extract the information from the disc onto a lap-top. So I asked Chris and he entrusted the master to the post. Happily it survived the journey intact despite without the protection of a box…and it ‘ripped’ ok!
So I was, at last, able to send all three over to Pedro who has presented it for you.

Just a flavour of some of the factors upon which the availability of this recording depended – that a little group formed to study buddhism. At the point i joined we met in a room above Pizza Hut and different teachers were invited to come and speak. That’s where some of us first met James.

As the numbers grew we then met for ‘James weekends’ in local buildings, in a hut in the local hospital and in a park.
James expressed his ease with this light way of meeting – like the gars in Tibet where students would gather for some time in the summer to receive teachings then disperse back into the hills to practice… Then the idea of a dedicated centre arose for the teacher of the group, and then a sponsor…and a lot of work for those involved. When teachers were invited to the centre the sponsor then made audio recordings of their talks… then as interest increased he bought a video camera…and then…and then…

Along with much else, James explains in this video…as he did in the first talk from the centre…the nature of relative reality – that ‘this’ appearance arises due to a multiplicity of causes and conditions, that due to impermanence this centre will be here whilst the factors for its maintenance are in play and then….and then…other factors arise and…it’s no longer a dharma centre
yet here we are connected in the dharma!

And i’m happy to say that here also is the complete index to all the 21 recordings from Macclesfield 2003 to 2020

P.S. On finding relevant videos on YouTube:

If you are looking to find particular James Low videos on YouTube it can be a bit of a maze. 
Using the playlists which have been created might help with this.

Go to YouTube  enter  james low dzogchen   in the search box…this brings them up
Then click ‘filters’ (to the right of the Home symbol)
The second column contains ‘playlist’ …select that.

Included in the revealed selection you’ll find playlists where teachings in a particular language and translations are grouped together, also playlists where you’ll find all the translations of a particular video. Also, playlists of excerpts and single episode teachings …

n.b. If the playlist doesn’t have   James Low – Dzogchen and Buddhist teachings   next to it,  you’ve  instead found the playlist of the person whose name is shown. This will include a JL video among their personal recommendations!’