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.

Become an Agent of Change. Join our residential programme in June, 2017 in Germany or September, 2017 in Israel

BECOME AN AGENT OF CHANGE

A 14- day programme for 60 people near Dusseldorf in Germany in June and October 2017 and  in Israel in September, 2017 and April 2018.

49 people have registered for Germany with 11 places left out of 60 available places. 15 people have registered so far for Israel out of 60 available places. The programme will take place with a minimum of 30 participants.

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Are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump the only choice? Part Two of Two

 

Part Two of Two

In Israel in September, 2016, I received an email recommending that I read a memoir of Stefan Zweig, a remarkable Jewish author (1883 – to 1942). The very next email in the daily long list of emails, I also received another encouragement for me to look at the writings of Stefan Zweig.

I bought his book: The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European upon my return home to Totnes, England. …

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Is a Vote for Hillary Clinton a Wasted Vote? Part One of Two

Part One of Two

There is a common view that Hillary Clinton is the “lesser of the two evils” between herself and Donald Trump in the race to be President of the United States.

It might or might not be true. A lesser evil is still an ‘evil.’ If you vote for Hillary Clinton, then you are voting on her political record. You are voting for her policies.

Your vote for Clinton is a direct endorsement of her years in political office. You are voting for the continuity of the old.

Is there any moral/ethical justification for giving her your vote? …

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Bob Dylan, Sony, Sharks, Youtube and Mr. Tambourine Man

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Know Thyself is not enough. Know the Other as well

The Inquirer

(Sutta 147 in Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha)

I gave a commentary on The Inquirer,  a talk of the Buddha last week during our Dharma Enquiry Programme at the Waldhaus Buddhist Centre, near Andernacht, Bonn, Germany.  The Buddha regularly encouraged mindfulness/inquiry to be directed towards others, as much as oneself.

The Buddhist tradition and other mind/body traditions have emphasised the inner, often at the expense of outer mindfulness/inquiry of another(s). The willingness to work to transform the outer can heal wounds, be deeply therapeutic and develop empowerment through action. …

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