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.

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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. A Treasury of Insights. A Review. With 20 Quotes from the novel.

A friend living in France strongly encouraged me to reread The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery to appreciate the remarkable insights found in his small novel. Born in Lyon, France in 1900, the author died in a plane crash in 1944 flying alone during the war. …

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Should Buddhists send loving kindness to Donald Trump?

Practising Buddhists regard themselves as non-violent, tolerant, mindful and meditative. Their spiritual teachers will probably encourage them to direct their loving kindness to everybody. …

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On the Buddhist understanding of the spirituality of children and Teenagers. A Book Review.

I recall taking Kye, my grandson, aged nine, to Australia for a month. I offered a Dharma Gathering for around 120 participants. Three friends from Bodhi Farm, near Lismore, New South Wales, kindly offered to take my grandson at dawn to find kangaroos, several kilometres away from the Yarrahapanni retreat centre, a sub-tropical forest running down to the edge of the majestic ocean. …

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