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.

France bans the burqa. Why stop there?

This month, the French National Assembly has passed a vote by 335 votes for and one against to ban the burqa, the black veil used to  cover the face by a small number of women in the country’s Muslim community. The Upper Chamber in France will take the final vote in September. …

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Football and Shakespeare’s Henry V

The football finalists in 2006 World Cup Finals were Italy and France. In South Africa, this month they had already suffered ignominious defeats and flown home. The French came home economy class. Such humiliation. …

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Depressesd? Don’t Ask Why. That takes time. Take a Pill

The question is: Is our society getting more depressed year by year? I read some alarming figures in the newspaper the other day that prescriptions for anti-depressants have almost doubled in the last decade. …

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