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.

Do you ever come across an author with an original mind? Try Jorge Luis Borges

Do you ever come across a brilliant,  and I mean a simply brilliant author, and wonder how one had missed for so many years such creative and imaginative writing? …

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12 items in current issue of Dharma eNews 28. August to December 2012

Dear Readers,

Below is a summary of the  12 items from the current issue of the Dharma eNews 28 sent out this month.

DHARMA E-NEWS ISSUE 28 August to December 2012  

Christopher’s INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULE March 2012 to March 2013. …

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Is Facebook sliding into the gutter of manipulation?

Yes, it got off to a good start. A bright university student in the US, named Mark Zuckerberg, put together a computer programme to launch Facebook in  2004 as a supportive social network site for people worldwide. A good initiative. …

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Welcome to the Corporate London Olympics starting July 26, 2012. Athletes, kids and adults all miss out.

Imagine what you could do with £9 billion. Provide sports teachers, sports class, equipment and fields for every poor school in the country? Provide widespread recreational and sports facilities for a whole range of interests?  Give programmes for children and adults to eat a healthy and nutritious diet? Set up programmes for young and old to spend more time outdoors for enjoyment, for exercise, for health. …

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Do you live in a happy country? An index of 151 countries from top to bottom.

I received  the 2012 list of the happiest nations in the world.  Known as the Happy Planet Index (HPI), the list begins with Cost Rica at the top of the list and ends with Botswana at the bottom of the list.

I include the full list below. …

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