Three prayers –The Flower of Faith, The Ten Directions and the Four Times, and The Aspiration for Birth in Dewachen are now available to listen to from Audio/Video in the dropdown menu on the home page where you’ll find the other recordings …or directly here.

Butterlamps – James is teaching on the butter-lamp prayer on the 18th/19th March and suggested everyone burn one …to connect with the meaning in the text

Extracts from the book Radiant Aspiration containing the Butterlamp prayer and James’ commentary:

‘Wonderful! In the pot of knowing all beings to be my parents swirls the oil of remembrance of the kindness with which they have held me. On the stick of the desire to repay their kindness the cotton of very beautiful love is wound well with the power of tender compassion.’

‘On the stick of very pure concentration, with the very pure attitude of diligence, the cotton of very pure patience is tied’

‘….in this pot you have a stick, the wick, which here is said to be composed of absorbed contemplation, ting nge dzin, in Tibetan. Ting nge means deep, undisturbed and dzin, which usually means to hold here means aligned with. So ting nge dzin means just calm and clear, going deep, not being disturbed, without attachment to thoughts, so that whatever arises just passes through.’