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.

How to Prepare a Public Talk

How to Prepare a Public Talk

 

I remember listening to a senior Buddhist monk giving a  talk.  He spoke for about an hour. His talk seemed to lack focus and appeared disjointed. I gently told him later he could consider preparing his talk by writing notes to establish a theme. He said his tradition did not use notes. …

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Will Adolf Hitler eventually win World War Two? State/Corporate Control and the Refugee Crisis. Part Two of Two

Will Adolf Hitler eventually win World War 2?

Are we getting closer to 1930’s Fascism?

What shows wisdom and compassion

in this global refugee crisis?

PART TWO OF TWO

Sub-headings:

Prison Labour in the USA

US Politics and the Far Right

The Manipulation of Democracy

Surveillance

Steps towards supporting asylum seekers and refugees

What can other Western countries learn from the German organisational approach?

Final Word

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Will Adolf Hitler eventually win World War Two? State/Corporate Control and the Refugee Crisis. Part One of Two

Will Adolf Hitler eventually win World War 2?

Are we getting closer to 1930’s Fascism?

What shows wisdom and compassion

in this global refugee crisis?

PART ONE OF TWO

Sub-headings:

A Definition of Fascism

Intention behind the essay

The Rise of European Fascism in the 1930s

USA Corporations and Fascism in the 1930’s and 1940’s

USA Corporations in Europe today

US Army and the Heritage of Iraq

The Rise of Anti-Immigration Parties in Europe

Examples of 14 Countries with growing Far Right Parties and Policies

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80 reasons to love India

80 Reasons to love India, plus one

 

A few years ago, I was staying at the Haus Khas home in New Delhi of beloved friends, Prama and Ranji.

While there, I read their daily newspaper which offered 60 reasons why Indians can love India.

Despite the  political/social/religious/environmental isses facing India, here are 80 reasons why Westerners love India.

In alphabetical order: …

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