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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.

Time magazine has made Facebook founder “Person of the Year.” Heaven help us…

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Time magazine in the USA has made our beloved Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg “Person of the Year”  for 2010 because lots of people worldwide spend  at most a few minutes per week (according to statistics) on his social network site. All credit to 26 year old Mark Zuckerberg for spotting a big niche in the Internet market and making full use of it. …

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Is Dogma creeping into the Dharma/Advaita world?

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Is dogma insidiously creeping  into the Dharma/Advaita world? We have managed to get off our backs burdensome religious beliefs, various statements of Canon Law and much of the top down forms of authority that characterise religion. …

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WikiLeaks makes it clear that Democracy is a system unfit for purpose

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Although an unlikely emergence in my lifetime but I believe there will be a time when global citizens will recognise Democracy as a sordid and unjust system of government in the same way we regard Fascism and Communism. …

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When a nine year old enters the rainforest ….

Retreat Environments / /

Kye, my nine-year-old grandson, accompanied me on a month long trip in November, 2010, to Australia where I offered Dharma teachings and visited family. Kye met his 90-year-old great grandmother. With the approval of his school in south Devon,   Kye could leave behind the laminated wooden desk of his classroom for the rain forest of Yarrahapinni running down to the edge of the Pacific Ocean in New South Wales. …

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