Search Posts

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.

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED. An edited talk by Christopher Titmuss in Ängsbacka Festival, Sweden, 2004

Communications / /

You would think by now that we would all be mega-experts on matters of love. In our day to day life, we can hardly escape it. The endless streams of television soap operas and films deal with issues of the heart and the complexity of human relationships. Endless pop, rock, R&B, rap, and all the other forms of music sing about love. Poetry, novels, plays and the arts are all about love. Love, love, love… …

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED. An edited talk by Christopher Titmuss in Ängsbacka Festival, Sweden, 2004Read More »

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED. An edited talk by Christopher Titmuss in Ängsbacka Festival, Sweden, 2004 Read More »

TED Talks. A Critique

Communications / /

Is it time for TED to walk the talk?

I watch occasionally on YouTube a TED (Technology, Education, Design) talk which claims to “challenge our core beliefs in search of deeper truth, while we celebrate the thinkers, dreamers and mavericks who dare to offer bold new alternatives.” …

TED Talks. A CritiqueRead More »

TED Talks. A Critique Read More »

Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Iraq and other nations need to support real change for the second class citizenship of American women.

Political / /

March 8, 2015 marks International Women’s Day. The UN and the majority of the nations of the world need to co-operate together to place pressure on the United States to pass laws to give women in the US a real voice in the running of America. …

Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Iraq and other nations need to support real change for the second class citizenship of American women.Read More »

Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Iraq and other nations need to support real change for the second class citizenship of American women. Read More »

“Je Suis Charlie” – and the terrorist too!

Poems and Prose / /

Those who hold up the sign “Je Suis Charlie”

need to read  the  poem

“Call Me by My True Names.”

I recall in the late 1970s reading the Poem Call Me by My True Names by the beloved Buddhst monk, Venerable Thich Nhat Hahn. The poem has perhaps became the best loved  poem in the Buddhist world in recent generations. …

“Je Suis Charlie” – and the terrorist too!Read More »

“Je Suis Charlie” – and the terrorist too! Read More »

Free Speech? Civilisation? Delusion.

Political / /

Free Speech? Civilisation?

There are no limits to delusion.

We have seen countless numbers of Western citizens in the last week or so proudly hold up a “Je Suis Charlie” sign to express their identity with Charlie Hebdo, the Parisian magazine whose cartoonists and others were mercilessly gunned down this month. …

Free Speech? Civilisation? Delusion.Read More »

Free Speech? Civilisation? Delusion. Read More »

Newsletter

The Buddha Wallah

Christopher Titmuss

 

A Buddhist/Spiritual perspective on social, political and global issues


Mindfulness, meditation and wisdom for daily life
Teaching schedule

SIGN IN HERE FOR FREE NEWSLETTER

More than one million views
since 2023

Scroll to Top