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.

Subtle Degrees. Commentary on a much loved poem by Rumi

A friend sent me  this Rumi poem,

Rumi (1207 – 1273) , a Persian poet, was born in Balkh, Afghanistan and died in Konya,Turkey.

I have written a commentary after the poem.

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Cancer. Steps to Explore. Part 2

Headings

The Pharmaceutical Industry

The Patient and Direct Action

A Charter for Cancer Patients.

 

The Pharmaceutical Industry

The pharmaceutical industry funds various projects to marginalise all other natural health approaches to medicine so the industry can maintain its grip on public health. …

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Cancer. Steps to Explore. Part One of Two

A Talk at a Medical School

The Benefits and Limits of Medical Expertise

A Major Study on Chemotherapy 

Relationship to the Body

 

A Talk at a Medical School

I recall in the 1990s receiving a request to give a talk at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The student, Jordan, who had sat annual retreats with me at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, had received the agreement of his professors to invite me.  …

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How to Protect your Laptop: 30 Tips

I have been using computers for around 30 years. I started using my first laptop, a Toshiba 1100 in the latter part of the 1980’s. The laptop weighed around 5 kilos, plus a pile of floppy discs etc. Carried around the world, the machine seemed amazingly light at the time. …

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The Rise and Fall of the Dharma – according to the Buddha

The simplistic spiritual ideology of being in the here and now obscures the opportunity to step out of the here and now to explore causation in the long period. The belief in the self-existence of the now, as something supreme and ultimate, has become an obstruction to clarity and vision. …

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