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.

The heartbeat of the metred poem

In an earlier blog, I had written about my conversion of iambic pentameter as a beautiful form of poetry widely used in the English language – a metre of unstressed/stressed syllables. …

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A Strike, A flight and a Hit Squad

I am due to fly out with British Airways on the overnight flight of Monday, March 29 from London Heathrow to Tel Aviv. Cabin crews of British Airways went on strike for four days last week and another four days starting this weekend including March 29. …

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WAYS TOWARDS INNER CHANGE.

Consideration towards inner change includes:

1)      Awakening.  There can be experiences that suddenly transform our whole perception and priorities in a single moment or in certain period in our life.  From that moment, there is a turn around in our consciousness.  It leads to new values, new priorities and the generating of love and liberation in life. …

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Cross-legged in front of the flat screen

I  have barely made any financial contribution to the Hollywood Film Industry. Between 1990 2010, I entered the doors of a cinema around five times. During these 20 years, I went on three of these occasions to see the feature film (movie) as an act of self-sacrifice, a modest one admittedly. My daughter, Nshorna, my Swedish partner at the time and my mother had persuaded me to go with them to the cinema. …

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