Author name: Christopher

Christopher Titmuss, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, teaches Awakening and Insight Meditation around the world. He is the founder and director of the Dharma Facilitators Programme and the Living Dharma programme, an online mentor programme for Dharma practitioners. He gives retreats, participates in pilgrimages (yatras) and leads Dharma gatherings. Christopher has been teaching annual retreats in Bodh Gaya, India since 1975 and leads an annual Dharma Gathering in Sarnath since 1999. A senior Dharma teacher in the West, he is the author of numerous books including Light on Enlightenment, An Awakened Life and Transforming Our Terror. A campaigner for peace and other global issues, Christopher is a member of the international advisory council of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. . Poet and writer, he is the co-founder of Gaia House, an international retreat centre in Devon, England. He lives in Totnes, Devon, England.

Yearning for Change. A Poem. To evoke a quest

The poem wishes readers to evoke a deep quest for renewal amid modern disquiet. Saturn return points to authentic coming-of-age. Symbols of grace, flamingos mirror a stepping stone. Let us go beyond fleeting harmony and cycles of aloneness and togetherness.

YEARNING FOR CHANGE

Pink flamingoes
ballet on the lake
of wondrous soul,
symbols of grace
in the hands of
togetherness.


Silence of cello
plays Saturn return –
so we can explore
push and pulling of
brief co-existence
wish for renewal
in this worried world.

Please speak to me
no void to fill
with these benches
cushions and mats
to confirm a
stretch to heaven

Step in, step out
inhale goes deep
exhale goes far
yes, it now seems
likely as the cat
stretches across
earth’s intimacy.

Let’s cycle towards
sunrise to tiptoe
with flamingos
and then to fly
to abide in the
beyond, not in reach
never out of reach,
never here, nor there.

Oh, the wonder of it all.

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30 Quotes of the Buddha. To mark 30 years of Tovana, leading Buddhist centre in Israel. October 2025

THIRTY QUOTES OF THE BUDDHA with location in discourse

1. I will speak about what is true, not about what is not true. A 111 195

2. What is the purpose of a mirror? It is for the purpose of reflection. An action to be done by body, speech or mind occurs after reflection. M 1 415

3. Just as the Great Ocean has one taste – the taste of salt. Even so, this Dharma has one taste – the taste of freedom. Ud 56

4. Overcome lies with truth. Dh 223

5. Ananda said. Half of the spiritual life is lived for (deep) friendship. The Buddha responded: Say not so. Say not so. The whole of the spiritual life is lived for (deep) friendship. S V 2. SN 45.2

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Developing the Power of Ethics and Action in Times of Uncertainty. With Christopher. 20 November 2025. Zoom. 60 minutes

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