Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Christopher Titmuss's most recent Dharma talks

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Commentary on 4 poems of Rumi on love and ultimate truth - to mark 8 centuries since his birth in September 1207.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Let us see into unfolding conditions. These conditions are unproblematic; thus liberation is not trapped in conditions, i.e., the unconditioned.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We believe that the now is more important than past and future, there is an essence behind personality and we have to work through our stuff to get to our Buddha nature. Truth dissolves these dualities.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We are preoccupied with self and other. Love needs to be liberated from self and other, popular culture and religion. Authentic love is a liberating force in the world.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Success and Failure, Gain and Loss, Praise and Blame, Pleasure and Pain can haunt our life. All these wordly conditions weave in and out of each other.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Equanimity is divine since it acts as a bridge towards facing the world and realization of the unconstructed & the secure.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There is no power to now since now is dependent on countless conditions Since there is no power to it, then there is a problem with it. Let us see through this delusion of views.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) THIS RETREAT ONLY

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We may have similar and dissimilar views, but truth enters into a situation and transforms it.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) THIS RETREAT ONLY

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Metta is love free from dependency on connection. Love explores family, service, intimacy, nature and creativity. It is a force for change in perception.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Most of us have enough. Our security is based on the way we treat others. If we are willing to be insecure, we can truly serve others.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Consciousness is the light that reveals the world of objects. It also reveals much more than that. It is the key to realizing emptiness and truth.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Deep love (metta) belongs to the formless and flows into our roles. The flow of this love transcends the situation.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) It is a very limited view to regard ethics (Sila) as five precepts. The authentic ethic is to stay true to vision and the meditative concentration to stay connected with noble wisdom.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When does an experience start and finish? The story of a Jewish friend, Erica, who hid from the nazis, as a metaphor. Do we really need a story experience for our liberation?

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Have we had an experience of liberation but have failed to realize its significance? This talk explores the relationship of enlightenment to liberation.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) It is worth knowing the causes and conditions for suffering; it is worth finding out what matters; it is worth knowing emptiness authentically.

(Gaia House)

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We often make a division, a duality, between a retreat and daily life. Is there reality in this division or it is a projection of our mind?

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores issues of struggle following 9/11, ways to resolve suffering. These teachings emphasize the necessity to explore deeply our relationship to each other.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Christopher engages in individual inquiry at the frong of the hall with five yogis at a retreat at spirit rock.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores issues of struggle following 9/11, ways to resolve suffering. These teachings emphasize the necessity to explore deeply our relationship to each other.

(Gaia House)

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) (incomplete)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The knower needs the heart to pursue the known. What is the knowing that goes beyond knower and known?

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Development of the mind is a minor detail of Dharma life. What matters lies outside the personality.

(Unknown) When a sense of self takes form in the mind, we can become burdened and limited by our own fiction about ourselves-- our story of who we think we are. What would it be to let the self lose its substance? A profound and immediate freedom can be discovered through seeing clearly beyond the illusion of personality to the truth of selflessness.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Finding here and now, freedom of the mind and freedom for tendencies.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)