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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.

A Personal Reflection on Angelina Jolie and her double masectomy

Dharma Reflections / /

I recall several years ago feeling a sharp pain under my left nipple while taking a shower as my left arm brushed across the nipple. Women have told me that they first felt a lump in the breast while taking a shower.  I felt a lump like hard glue under the nipple. I googled for information about lumps under nipples for men. It seems that a tiny, tiny number of men get cancer that starts with the first tell-tale sign of a lump under the nipple. …

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From Mindfulness to Meditation and Love. Sunday May 26, Hove, Brighton, UK.

Communications / /

On Donation

FROM MINDFULNESS TO

MEDITATION AND LOVE

with

Christopher Titmuss …

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From Mindfulness to Meditation and Love. Sunday May 26, Hove, Brighton, UK. Read More »

Isn’t it about time USA citizens overthrew their government? There are non-violent strategies available.

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On August 6, 1945, the biggest act of mass murder in a single hour in human history took place when a US airplane dropped a nuclear bomb on citizens living in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later the second greatest act of mass murder took place when another US plane dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. …

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Isn’t it about time USA citizens overthrew their government? There are non-violent strategies available. Read More »

I jumped for joy on November 28,1990 when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got evicted….

Political / /

I can still recall on November 28, 1990 walking into a  café in Cornwall in the west of England and picking up a newspaper with the headline that Margaret Thatcher had resigned as Prime Minister. …

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The Buddha gave the much loved Kalama Sutta that questions authority. Here is the Totnes Sutta with the same principle.

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The Kalama Sutta

(Sutta means discourse)

The Kalama people told the Buddha they were perplexed by the different spiritual/religious views. He replied:  “It is fitting for you to be perplexed. Doubt has arisen in you about a perplexing matter.”

 Then the Buddha gave to the Kalama people of north India a discourse. This discourse constitutes one of his most loved statements endorsing our capacity to question authority.  …

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The Buddha gave the much loved Kalama Sutta that questions authority. Here is the Totnes Sutta with the same principle. Read More »

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