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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.

Does Medicine Damage Our Health? Part Two of Two

Business, Science Critiques / Christopher / December 15, 2017

HEADINGS

The Medical Belief System

Cause and Effect

Complementary Medicine

We need a Medical Revolution

Contemporary medicine runs under a belief system that everything must be broken down to the smallest part to see what is wrong in that location of the body. This reductionist standpoint often needs the use of expensive machinery such as MRI and CT scans. Doctors prescribe medication to target a single part of the malfunction of the body, which is treated in the same way as a machine. …

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Does Medicine Damage Our Health? Part One of Two

Business, Science Critiques / Christopher / December 10, 2017

Our doctors and nurses engage in remarkable works of service in the face of exceptionally difficult circumstances. Patients come to people in the medical profession suffering with sickness and pain. They need to be treated. There are incredible demands on clinics and hospitals to offer a cure, end the sickness and pain. Patients want to be healed as quickly as possible. …

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Application of Mindfulness in the West. Part Two of Two

Articles / Christopher / November 26, 2017

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25 Areas for Exploration for an Enlightened Life

Mindfulness and Jon Kabat-Zinn

JKZ and the Expanse of Mindfulness

MBLP Courses? …

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Application of Mindfulness in the West. Part One of Two

Articles / Christopher / November 26, 2017

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25 Expressions of the Power of Mindfulness to Contribute to Wisdom

Mindfulness of Information and Entertainment Technology

Facing the real world or escape into gadgets?

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A Reflection on Mindfulness. Is it progress to shift from Buddhism to Mindfulism?

Dharma Reflections / Christopher / November 14, 2017

The Buddha of Mindfulness

Many senior leaders of the mindfulness world wisely insist those training to be a mindfulness teacher attend regularly Buddhist retreats. …

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