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.

Finding Fault with Others. Points to Remember

Finding Fault with Others. Points to Remember

The inner life has the capacity to contain a range of different voices, sometimes diabolically opposed to each other, as well as opposed to the voice of others, personal and public figures/organisations. …

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What are the steps to save the Earth?

What are the steps to save the Earth?

Headings:

Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, 2009

Carbon Emissions

Nuclear Power, Fossil Fuels and Long Term Vision

A Green Economy

Transition

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Climate Conference needs to be held in devastated regions of the Earth

A small but important point. There is no substitute for first hand experience of  seeing devastation brought about by significant fluctuations in climate and human activivity in regions of the Earth. There are 150 world leaders at the Climate Change Conference this week. Why on earth is the conference held in Paris? …

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Climate Change. London demonstration. Photos on November 29, 2015 taken in London and other photos worldwide

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ISIS and the West

Has ISIS recruited our Western

governments to support the ISIS agenda?

 

Sections:

Introduction

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh?

ISIS Media Campaign

The Funding of ISIS

ISIS and Saudi Arabia

Psychology and ISIS

Death and ISIS

The Caliphate and ISIS

Refugees and ISIS

Steps to resolve the war between ISIS and the West

Introduction

Like millions of others, I have walked along some of the streets where the ISIS recruits engaged in the merciless slaughter of people enjoying a Friday evening out in Paris. The streets are a short walk from Gare du Nord railway station. I make the train journey to this station regularly from London en route to and from Germany.  Once a year, I walk from the station to another station in Paris to catch a train. It is hard to imagine the slaughter that took place there this month.

The national flags of France, Egypt, Russia, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Mali and elsewhere remain soaked in tears and blood as acts of war between a version of the West and a version of Islam rages on.

We, the citizens of the West, have to ask ourselves a painful question:

Has ISIS recruited our Western governments to support the ISIS agenda? …

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