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.

70th Birthday. A Poem for April 22, 2014

Ah, I know now that I cannot die young,

the locks of white fill the place once so dark

I was once so young and I changed my name,

nothing lasts long and nothing stays the same.

 

I can only live to fill a life time,

the music starts to play another song,

the party still goes on, the friends do grow,

as spring and summer, autumn, winter show.

 

A solitude fills the day and the night,

A few odd crumbs lie around winter’s mind,

I know now where the passing years all went,

inquiry, laughter, love and time well spent.

 

Fulfilled my dreams, I had my sleep. The deep

is close, I sit and see, my thoughts do wane,

the sparks have come and lit short joy delight,

express in ways to share, and then to write.

 

Mindful, this rest – to start the last hurrah,

we smile and laugh, as friends, and dharma long,

the hugs mean much,  even if glow does fade,

we look around to see what love has made.

 

The stroll of change, an age that fills the air,

of dana, books, music, cards and candles,

events unfold before impending blast,

I can only state that the truth will last.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Towards Reconciliation between the people of Israel and the people of Palestine

May the international community develop full support for reconciliation between the Israeli and Palestinian community.

We know there is far more in common between the two communities than what separates. …

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Transcription of Talk/Q and A, given at an Essen Hospital. March 19, 2014

Edited transcription of Talk/Question and Answer/Guided Mindfulness Meditation on March 19, 2014 to some doctors, managers and staff of the Kliniken Essen-Mitte, a hospital in Essen, Germany. The hospital provides a wide range of services to facilitate support for the needs of patients including oncology, palliative care, psychiatry and Naturopathy It is one of the leading hospitals in Germany offering treatment from physicians/oncologists along with Naturopathy to support a healthy diet, mindfulness programmes for stress reduction, inner healing and exploration of lifestyle. The hospital offers expertise to the highest medical level. …

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Eckhart Tolle is on the Rich Man’s List. Is this the price of enlightenment?

In August 2000, a meditator at the Spirit Rock Meditation Centre, Marin, California, kindly gave me a copy of The Power of Now (price $21.95) by Eckhart Tolle that had been published the year before. She told me she had bought a dozen copies to give to her friends. She wrote on the inside cover:

“Thank you, Christopher. I am grateful for your guidance and your support in my awakening.  May this book be a blessing to you.  It is changing my life.” …

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