2014

A message from a Norwegian surgeon working in a hospital in Gaza

Political / Christopher / July 21, 2014

Dearest friends ,

The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying – all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.

The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working 12-24hrs shifts, …

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Totnes (UK) holds a silent walk to appeal to a halt to the bombing….

Retreat Environments / Christopher / July 20, 2014

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Photos show silent walk up Totnes high street and sharing circle. …

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Join our silent, single file walk up Totnes High Street to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza

Communications / Christopher / July 18, 2014

Christopher Titmuss and Totnes Palestine Group are organising a silent walk in single file up Totnes High Street this Saturday July 19th in protest at the Israeli war on Gaza. The Walk will start on the Plains at 11 am at the bottom of the high street to the market. …

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16 Brahmins come to the Buddha with Questions. How would you respond to such profound questions?

Dharma Reflections / Christopher / July 17, 2014

Sixteen Brahmins come to the Buddha with Questions.

How would you respond to such profound questions?

After I spent three years (early 1970’s) as a Buddhist monk in a Vipassana monastery near the city of Nakornsridhammaraj (City of the Kings of Dharma) in southern Thailand, I left to spend nine months in a cave on Ko Pha Nga island. Our teacher, Ajahn Dhammadharo rejected reading as a distraction to practice throughout the day from 4 am with the loud morning gong to 22.00, seven days a week. …

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