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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.

Dialogue with Lubna, a Palestinian journalist and activist, with Israelis and Christopher. Held in Agents of Change course. April 2018.

Communications / /

https://soundcloud.com/user-733366478/20180409-dialogue-with-lubna?in=user-733366478/sets/agents-of-change-april-2018-israelhttps://archive.org/details/20180409.DialogueWithLubnaPalestinianActivist.Israel.IHr40Minutes.

Sunday 19.00. A glitch in audio. As soon as resolved will upload.

Thank you.

I received this message from a friend, Marie who lives in Australia.

Dear Christopher
I listened to Lubna’s amazing contribution to the Agents of Change course in Israel
Thanks for sharing it on archive. Her voice is one many could learn from.
Love, Marie

Listen to this Podcast. Lubna. a Palestinian activitist, journalist and organiser, speaks to Israelis about the Occupation and her view of Israel.

Lubna and Christopher sat together, exchanged views and responded to questions and concerns from participants. Lubna addressed anger, denial, the challenge of communication between Israelis and Palestinians and more.

Held at Ein dor in northern Israel. April 2018.

Dialogue took place during the Agents of Change 28 day residential course for 55 Israelis including 16 participants from Germany and four from other countries.

Audio is available on www.archive.org

https://archive.org/details/20180409.DialogueWithLubnaPalestinianActivist.Israel.IHr40Minutes.

Worth a listen.

Love

Christopher

(Agents of Change Organiser.

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Imagine. You are a Jew and you find yourselves expelled from your homeland

Political / /

Empathy between human beings stands as a powerful force for mutual understanding.

Empathy is the ability to feel what it is like to be in the shoes of another. …

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An Experience is Not the Point. It is the View that Matters. Live Teaching. Worldwide Insight. Sunday 13 May, 2018 at 19..00 UK time. Do Join

Retreat Environments / /

We will explore this theme on Sunday 13 May, 2018 at 19.00 with Worldwide Insight, via online video. https://www.worldwideinsight.org/

A deep application of attention includes the sustained application to any important experience. This includes  a vast range of happy or painful, spiritual or conventional experiences.

There is the view of the experience and the experience.

What is a fresh way to see an important experience?

Does the view of the experience matter more than the experience?

An Experience is not the Point

We might imagine that the Dharma points eventually to a profound experience (s) to transform our life.

There is the potential to have a wide ranges of experiences. These include childhood, emotional, secular, religious, mystical, spiritual and insightful experiences.

Yes, clarity and wisdom can emerge out of the variety of experiences. We can keep our heart and mind open to the variety of experiences.

An experience essentially consists of a movement or non-movement of the heart-mind-consciousuness.

An experience arises due to the conditions, stays due to the conditions and passes due to the conditions.

There is no such thing as an everlasting experience.

A view based on a deep experience does not confirm the realty. We can have experiences of oneness, non-duality, the now, expansive realms, experiences beyond words and profound changes in consciousness. We can experience I am That or I am not That.

We do not have to put any experience whatsoever into an ultimate state or relegate any experience into a a mundane category.

Liberation and awakening ends any clinging, dependency or view based on any experience. Liberation and freedom do not fall into the box of experiences. This is a great relief.

Seeing and knowing this allows all experiences to present themselves for a whiie, stay and pass.

Sunday Evening (UK time)

We will explore our relationship to experiences.

Do join us live on Sunday evening on the international screen.

Home page of worldwide insight will tell you your time at 19.00 (UK) on Sunday evening.

 

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70 Years this week. A Country for Israelis. A Catastrophe for Palestinians. The Key is Reconciliation

Political / /

Dear Dharma Friends,

I returned home to Totnes, England on Tuesday evening (17 April 2018) from En Dor in northern Israel. …

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Favourite Quotes of Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879 – 1950) of Tiruvannamalai, south India

The Buddha, Spiritual / /

Quotes from the book

TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

Between 1935 – 1939

Published by Sri Ramanashramam

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