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.

An Israeli woman said of the bombing of Gaza: “They deserve it.” Are most Israelis thinking that? If not, why do they appear to remain silent?

We held our 14th annual Dharma Yatra (teachings/practices and pilgrimage) in France. During the Yatra, co-teacher, Zohar from Israel and I met with around 10 Israelis participating in the pilgrimage out of the 130 plus on the walk. We were all in rather remote areas, often out of the usual links with the rest of the world. …

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A message from a Norwegian surgeon working in a hospital in Gaza

Dearest friends ,

The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying – all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.

The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working 12-24hrs shifts, …

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Totnes (UK) holds a silent walk to appeal to a halt to the bombing….

Totnes (UK) holds a silent walk to appeal to a halt to the bombing…. Read More »

Join our silent, single file walk up Totnes High Street to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza

Christopher Titmuss and Totnes Palestine Group are organising a silent walk in single file up Totnes High Street this Saturday July 19th in protest at the Israeli war on Gaza. The Walk will start on the Plains at 11 am at the bottom of the high street to the market. …

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16 Brahmins come to the Buddha with Questions. How would you respond to such profound questions?

Sixteen Brahmins come to the Buddha with Questions.

How would you respond to such profound questions?

 

After I spent three years (early 1970’s) as a Buddhist monk in a Vipassana monastery near the city of Nakornsridhammaraj (City of the Kings of Dharma) in southern Thailand, I left to spend nine months in a cave on Ko Pha Nga island. Our teacher, Ajahn Dhammadharo rejected reading as a distraction to practice throughout the day from 4 am with the loud morning gong to 22.00, seven days a week. …

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