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.

Psychedelics and Meditation: Theories, Evidence, and Future Directions. A Talk by Marco Schlosser

Marco Schlosser offers a thoughtful 90-minute talk with summary/bullet points on screen on meditation, psychedelics and more. Marcus encourages exploration of the meditation experience and looks at current research on psychedelics. His talk is a contribution to understanding the dynamics of meditation in the context of contemporary views and points the way forward.

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‘We contemplate eternity beneath the vast indifference of heaven’ – A song of Buddha wisdom written by Warren Zevon and sung by David Lindley

A Dharma friend, Klaus in Germany, kindly wrote a comment to my blog on The Outsider by Albert Camus. He sent me a link to a song written by Warren Zevon (1947-2003), an American singer-songwriter, who died from cancer. …

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From time to time, a participant in one of our Mindfulness Courses, via Zoom, criticises our donation model.

Background.

Around 2011, I created a new website, Mindfulness Training Course, and started an online Mindfulness Training Course (MTC). Around 80 people per year or more worldwide participated in the Course for the next five years. There were also weekly groups meetings in city centres or homes using the Course as a foundation for weekly mindfulness practices. …

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My grandson, Kye Allwood, wins a place at Goldman Sachs, the investment bankers, for the summer of 2023. Around 10,000 applicants.

My grandson, Kye Allwood, 21, a Sheffield University student of economics, joins investment bankers Goldman Sachs in their London headquarters for the summer weeks of 2023.

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How to make Indian Chai for One Person

Ah, chai, garam, garam, chai. It means tea, hot, hot, tea. We hear it chanted in India on railway station platforms, in the corridors of trains, at bus stands and from the chai wallahs sitting at their stall. …

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