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 boy, a short film, a piano and a poem …..

Earlier this month, the class teacher  gave children 30 minutes to write a few lines about their response to a short animated film based on a husband playing the piano after the death of his wife. …

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Gotama the Buddha – not a holier-than-thou type.

I have a dozen biographies about the life of the Buddha. I emailed Stefan Karpkik, who loves exploring the Pali Suttas (Discourses of the Buddha) about the Buddha. …

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A quiet revolution of values continues in Totnes, England….

The quiet revolution continues in Totnes, Devon, a small rural town in the west country of England.  I returned in late February from five weeks in India. Upon returning home, I picked up some of the flyers around the town.  Without wishing to  give the town any kind of special self-existence, Totnes continues to be willing to embark on various journeys of transition and change.   …

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Libyan leader, Col. Gadaffi needs to read a play of William Shakespeare

Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, the self appointed leader (not the president he says)  should find some time in his sleepless hours in his remote ivory tower in Tripoli, Libya’s capital, to read Coriolanus, William Shakespeare’s play. The play explores subsequent events when a leader shows no respect for his people. …

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Dear Citizens of the Arab nations, We are also tired of our governments

We, the so-called democratic nations, are thoroughly tired of our power hungry leaders, bankers obsessed with money, no matter how great the debt, and media barons repressing information. …

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