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.

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DISCOURSE ON MINDFULNESS OF BREATHING

SUMMARY OF THE DISCOURSE ON

MINDFULNESS OF BREATHING

A classic discourse of the Buddha from

Middle Length Discourse (Sutta 118)

 Sixteen Stages to develop Mindfulness of Breathing

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Pharmaceutical Industry, the Brain, Medicine and Patients

 

Our brain, body, organs and teeth were

never evolved to endure such abuse

from lifestyle and ongoing medical drugs

Headings

WESTERN MEDICINE AND THE BRAIN

THE POWER OF THE PLACEBO

OUR BELIEFS IMPACT ON OUR BRAIN AND OUR PHYSIOLOGY

TRAINING FOR WESTERN MEDICAL STUDENTS ABOUT DIET FOR HEALTH? FROM ZERO UP TO 15 HOURS PER YEAR …

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Pharmaceutical Industry, Sickness, Ethics, Death.

Is the Pharmasickical, oops

Pharmaceutical Industry

slowly killing us?

Headings

The Moral Sickness in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Medical Treatment as the Primary Cause for Death in the USA

Is Daily Medication Killing Senior Citizens

“It’s the environment, stupid.”

Steps towards change in sickness management

The Limits of Western Medicine

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Science, Medicine, Beliefs, Genes, the Mind and the Brain,

Like Religious followers, Scientists are Believers. They believe in Science. But Science also has a restrained view of life

Sub-headings:

The Limits of Medical Science

Consciousness depends on Mind/Body and visa versa

We Cannot Find Consciousness in a Gene

Neuromania or Neuroscience?

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