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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.

On the passing of my mum (Mrs Peggie Titmuss. 07.04.1920 – 18.03.2015):  Message from Judy. Memories from Nshorna. Eulogy of Mark Guyler and Christopher at the funeral service

Communications / /

See link to photos of funeral service at foot of this page.

From Judy (my sister), to friends and family

This is just to let you know my Mum passed away peacefully yesterday morning (18th March). It would have been around 11.30 on St. Patrick’s Day your time in the UK.  She really had a wonderful life and to reach almost 95 (April 7) with a great degree of dignity, still able to care for herself within the nursing home and still walk around with the aid of a walker and feed herself without assistance. …

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On the passing of my mum (Mrs Peggie Titmuss. 07.04.1920 – 18.03.2015):  Message from Judy. Memories from Nshorna. Eulogy of Mark Guyler and Christopher at the funeral service Read More »

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

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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… …

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TED Talks. A Critique

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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.” …

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

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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. …

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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. …

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