Patterns of Emptiness

Sam speaks with James Low, a modern meditation master whose teachings bring nonduality to life with spontaneity, wit, and everyday examples (in this conversation alone: riding a bike, peeling a banana, eating with chopsticks). Here, we meet the teacher behind the teachings.

Sam and James discuss James’s Protestant upbringing and his disillusionment with Western spirituality, his early exposure to Hinduism, his transition to Dzogchen, his work translating Tibetan texts, his approach to pointing-out instructions, Advaita vs. Advaya, academic intellectualism vs. embodied insight, language vs. perception, acting practically vs. letting things be, the central importance of ethics, the utility of contemplating mortality, successful teacher-student relationships, and other topics.