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.

Meditation Teaching in Australia. October 31 – November 18, 2015

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Do you have any Facebook Friends?

Do you have any Facebook Friends?

Please don’t say ‘Yes’ too quickly.

In a previous blog this week, I wrote 12 Pointers to real friends and 12 pointers for false friends.

http://christophertitmussblog.org/do-you-have-any-real-friends-do-you-have-any-false-friends

In another previous blog this week, I wrote 12 Pointers asking if we have friends in our contact list on our mobile phones.

http://christophertitmussblog.org/contact-list-on-your-mobile-phone

In this blo, I have reflected on our Facebook Friends. …

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Do you have any real friends? Do you have any false friends?

WHO ARE OUR FRIENDS?

We sometimes wonder who are our real friends. With a real friend, we can share our inner life. We can open our heart. We can talk openly about what we are feeling and thinking. With a real friend, we feel loved and understood.

Friendship matters. We do not need a lot of real friends. We only need two or three really close friends. Here are 12 pointers to real friends and 12 pointers to false friends. …

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Stress and Anxiety in Israel. Part Two of Two

The God of Israel has inflicted stress

and anxiety upon His people

Part Two

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I can recall some of the inter-views and inquiry sessions over the past two decades and more with Israelis on retreats and elsewhere in the country. Some of the themes mentioned below have arisen several times in various ways. Similar issues rarely get mentioned on retreats in other countries where I teach.  …

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