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.

A Dongle, $3500 bill from Orange. A Soya Latte.

I have firsthand experience of major corporations’ determination to make huge profits with little costs. I rented a dongle, a small gadget from the Orange telephone company to download my emails while abroad. When I returned home from Australia I received a bill from Orange for £2250 ($3500, €2700 Euros) for the use of the dongle for less than 90 minutes use in four weeks. …

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The issue is not corporate salaries and bonuses but obesity

The Buddha described greed as a poison of the mind. He tended to choose his words carefully. Poison is a substance that slowly or quickly takes away life. It destroys. It kills. Greed is poison. …

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Do we live under corporate rule?

Examples of Corporate Rule

  1. Corporations control our elected representatives through large donations. The corporate wealthy in the USA and elsewhere give substantial sums of money to their chosen political party. The government of the day then becomes subservient to their paymaster. …

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Facebook messages can contribute to marriage breakdown

Facebook, text messages etc function as a  very light weight substitute for authentic and genuine face to face contact with another. I am sure you would agree that It is important that we bring love and attention to the immediate people in our lives and not take flight from that through Facebook. …

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Recommended Books to Inspire a Memoir

In a blog a couple of weeks ago, I asked Facebook Friends for recommendations for books that were written in the first person, reflected a travel memoir or carried a depth and the poetic. I wrote that I planned to read some of the books to get into the flow of writing a memoir of 10 years in the East.  I mentioned some books that I had selected from my small library of books here at home to re-read. Title of these books were: …

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