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Join our two weeklong Mindfulness/Insight Meditation (Vipassana) Retreats in Sarnath, near Varanasi, India from 4-11 and 11-18 February 2019.

Posted on September 14, 2018 1:10 pm by Christopher Comment

Join our Mindfulness/Insight Meditation Retreats in India in early 2019

The Buddha’s teachings have a practical relevance for today.

Retreats held in the beautiful Thai Monastery, Sarnath, near Varanasi, India.

Title: From Insight Meditation (Vipassana) to Liberation 

Teacher: Christopher Titmuss

4 February 2019 – 11 February 2019 

11 February 2019 – 18 February 2019

Cost: There is a modest registration charge and appeal for donations to cover remaining costs at end of retreat.

For more information: www.meditationinindia.org .

Website contains useful information for travel in India.

Christopher has taught annual retreats in India for the past 45 years, as well as elsewhere in the world.

A senior teacher and former Buddhist monk, Christopher is the author of 20 books, poet and social critic. He lives in Totnes, England.

If you wish to travel with others to India, you could join the pilgrimage with Ellen Van Lersel from Holland. Her pilgrimage includes the 7-day Vipassana retreat with Christopher Titmuss

www.livemindfully.nl 



RETREATS FROM JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 2018. Starting with Saturday 23 – 30 June, 2018, Pauenhof, near Dusseldorf, Germany. From 30 June – Friday June 5, near Munich etc.. France, Israel, Germany, Australia.

Posted on June 20, 2018 12:19 pm by Christopher Comment

GERMANY. PAUENHOF CENTRE

18.00 Saturday 23 June to Saturday 30 June 2018 Noon. Continue reading →



A Facilitated Journey into Nature. Join Henriette Lofstrom for three days of walking on Dartmoor, England. Saturday 23 – 25 June or Saturday 30 June to July 2, 2018

Posted on June 17, 2018 2:33 pm by Christopher Comment

A Facilitated Journey into Nature

Explore a Feminine Approach for three days

in a remote part of Dartmoor, south Devon, England.

With Henriette Lofstrom Continue reading →



An Experience is Not the Point. It is the View that Matters. Live Teaching. Worldwide Insight. Sunday 13 May, 2018 at 19..00 UK time. Do Join

Posted on May 12, 2018 9:14 am by Christopher Comment

We will explore this theme on Sunday 13 May, 2018 at 19.00 with Worldwide Insight, via online video. https://www.worldwideinsight.org/

A deep application of attention includes the sustained application to any important experience. This includes  a vast range of happy or painful, spiritual or conventional experiences.

There is the view of the experience and the experience.

What is a fresh way to see an important experience?

Does the view of the experience matter more than the experience?

An Experience is not the Point

We might imagine that the Dharma points eventually to a profound experience (s) to transform our life.

There is the potential to have a wide ranges of experiences. These include childhood, emotional, secular, religious, mystical, spiritual and insightful experiences.

Yes, clarity and wisdom can emerge out of the variety of experiences. We can keep our heart and mind open to the variety of experiences.

An experience essentially consists of a movement or non-movement of the heart-mind-consciousuness.

An experience arises due to the conditions, stays due to the conditions and passes due to the conditions.

There is no such thing as an everlasting experience.

A view based on a deep experience does not confirm the realty. We can have experiences of oneness, non-duality, the now, expansive realms, experiences beyond words and profound changes in consciousness. We can experience I am That or I am not That.

We do not have to put any experience whatsoever into an ultimate state or relegate any experience into a a mundane category.

Liberation and awakening ends any clinging, dependency or view based on any experience. Liberation and freedom do not fall into the box of experiences. This is a great relief.

Seeing and knowing this allows all experiences to present themselves for a whiie, stay and pass.

Sunday Evening (UK time)

We will explore our relationship to experiences.

Do join us live on Sunday evening on the international screen.

Home page of worldwide insight will tell you your time at 19.00 (UK) on Sunday evening.

 



Dharma Seminar Friday 4 – 8 May, 2018. Exploration of Inner and Outer Engagement. Saturday 23 – 30, June. Do join

Posted on March 5, 2018 10:58 am by Christopher Comment

I give a seven day retreat at Waldhaus, Nickenich, near Bonn, in late April 2018. This is completely full. There are plenty of spaces for the two courses below. Do  join. The courses provide the opportunity for exploration with the days including silent periods with some periods for sharing.

GERMANY, PAUENHOF CENTRE

Friday 18.00. 4 May 2018 to  noon Tuesday 8 May 2018

Dharma Seminar with Christopher Titmuss

christopher@insightmeditation.org

Meditation and Study of Buddha’s Teachings

This course consists of meditation in the morning session with full instructions. Study of Buddha’s teachings in the afternoon. and practice. We select texts directly related and supportive of daily life. We also look at the relevance of a major discourse of the Buddha for practice and insight. There is inquiry, Dharma talk, questions and answers, guided meditation in the evening.  Silence from wake up until 13.30 and from 22.00 until 13.30 next day. The seminar is open to all.

Pauenhof Centre

Pauenhof e.V Pauendyck 1

D-47665 Sonsbeck Hamb

www.pauenhof.de

info@pauenhof.de

40 minutes from Dusseldorf

Nearest rail stations are Alpen and Geldern.

GERMANY. PAUENHOF CENTRE

18.00 Saturday 23 June to Saturday 30 June 2018 Noon.

THE MEETING OF THE INNER AND THE OUTER

A Course with Christopher Titmuss

christopher@insightmeditation.org

Ulla Konig-Cardanobile and Kerstin Mauth to assist.

This weeklong retreat/seminar explores mindfulness/meditation/service to others.

We will explore our commitment to inner exploration and forms of service to people, animals and the environment. Wisdom and Compassion express two wings of the Dharma.

The week will include mindfulness, meditation, groups and inquiry. Extended period of silence and communication. Emphasis is on experience, not theory.

I would like as many of you in the Agents of Change programme to join this weeklong event.

Priority is given to those who register and pay first. Places for 60 people.

All are welcome.

Pauenhof Centre

Pauenhof e.V.
Pauendyck 1

D – 47665 Sonsbeck Hamb

(40 minutes from Düsseldorf)
Germany

www.pauenhof.de

info@pauenhof.de

Nearest railway stations are Alpen and Geldorn

 

 

 

 

 




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