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.

Football and Shakespeare’s Henry V

The football finalists in 2006 World Cup Finals were Italy and France. In South Africa, this month they had already suffered ignominious defeats and flown home. The French came home economy class. Such humiliation. …

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Depressesd? Don’t Ask Why. That takes time. Take a Pill

The question is: Is our society getting more depressed year by year? I read some alarming figures in the newspaper the other day that prescriptions for anti-depressants have almost doubled in the last decade. …

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I bow down to those on the flotilla of ships for Gaza

I can only make a bow with folded hands to the 682 men, women and some children from more than 30 nations who bravely boarded the small flotilla of ships that embarked from Istanbul to take a modest 1000 tons of aid to the besieged citizens of Gaza. …

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