Christopher Titmuss's Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Christopher Titmuss
My engagement in teaching the dharma, to point to a free and liberated life, has remained the same since the first day I started. It is my unwavering commitment to inspire people that such a life is accessible to us all, here and now. This is what sustains me and gives me enthusiasm.
With contemporary language, I endeavor to address the depth of the Dharma, to go into the inner experience by using one of the contributions to the great wheel of the dharma, insight meditation. Insight meditation is a respectful and healthy practice. It gives us meditation techniques which, when practiced, lead to real insight into the whole of existence as well as our life in particular. It speaks to what it means for us to be a part of this world.
I also pay attention to the breadth of the Dharma by attempting to address every possible life endeavor, leaving no stone unturned: materialism, consumer culture, livelihood, environmental resources, love and respect for sentient beings, relationships, all the issues of daily life.
Most important for me is to keep the priority and focus on striving to live the awakened and liberated life and not be sidetracked by any particular feature, no matter how noble its contribution. A liberated and awake life is the center of the Dharma, and I find that I am simply unable to settle for anything else.
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Select from Christopher Titmuss's
355
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1991-04-22
A Birthday Talk
1989-08-01
A Breath Of Freedom
1996-08-11
A Matter Of Life
1989-02-16
A Question Of "My"
1993-01-01
A Question Of Authority
1988-01-01
A Small Voice Of Concern
1990-04-26
A Tear Is A Dew Drop
1989-08-01
A Thought Of Freedom
1998-05-02
A Timeless Understanding
1986-08-25
A Tribute To Krishnamurti
1984-09-01
Action In The World
1987-01-01
Actionless Action
2000-04-29
Afternoon Inquiry
1990-08-28
Aloneness
1990-08-14
Aloneness And Becoming
1988-08-01
An Engaged Spirituality
1999-04-27
Appearance And Going Deeper
1993-09-04
Arising And Passing
1983-08-07
Arising And Vanishing
1983-08-04
Attachment To Form
1993-04-26
Awareness
1998-08-22
Awareness & Revenge
1993-08-17
Awareness And Meditation
1992-08-15
Awareness And Time
1988-08-01
Back To The Future
1988-08-01
Being
1984-04-16
Being Successful
1989-08-01
Beyond Explanation
1985-08-25
Beyond The Hindrances
1992-08-17
Beyond The Story Line
1989-02-17
Cause And Effect
1992-04-09
Changes Of Consciousness
1984-08-22
Closing Talk
1997-04-26
Closing Talk - Engagement With The Day
1991-08-18
Closing Talk And Guided Metta Meditation
1992-04-05
Closing Talk: Guided Metta Meditation
1990-08-17
Commentaries On Rilke
1990-08-30
Commentary On "Do You See What I See?"
1995-04-22
Commentary On A Major Sutta
1989-02-14
Commentary On A Poem By St. John Of The Cross
1997-04-25
Commentary On A Rilke Poem
1986-08-22
Commentary On Keeping Quiet
1988-01-01
Commentary On Poem Of Milarepa
1985-08-24
Commentary On The Heart Sutra
1996-04-26
Commentary On The Noble Truths
1996-08-17
Commentary On The Poems Of Rumi
1985-04-21
Communication
1979-08-17
Concentration And Awareness
1983-08-01
Content With Little
1992-08-23
Daily Life And Lk Meditation
1983-08-13
Daily Life-Sangha
1993-01-01
Deep Experiences
1985-04-17
Deepening Meditation
1983-04-28
Denial And Affirmation Of Life
1994-04-26
Detachment Or Non Attachment
1984-04-18
Dharma And Creative Expression
1984-09-01
Dharma And Its Implications
1987-01-01
Dharma In Daily Life (Part 1)
1987-01-01
Dharma In Daily Life (Part 2)
1987-01-01
Dharma In Daily Life (Part 3)
1987-01-01
Dharma In Daily Life (Part 4)
1986-04-22
Dharma In Daily Life Series
1983-04-30
Dharma In Daily Life-Politics
1992-04-10
Dialogue On Love
1997-06-09
Diana: A) A Tribute
1997-06-09
Diana: B) Death As A Reminder
1998-08-16
Directions In Life
1997-08-01
Diversity And Unity
1998-04-26
Dnu: Three Teachings
1984-04-08
Do I Have To Work It Out?
1988-01-01
Do We Need A Teacher
1991-04-23
Does Spirituality Truly Exist?
1993-04-29
Duality
1984-09-01
Dying And Death
1990-04-22
Earth Day Talk
1982-04-30
East Meets West?
1993-01-01
Ego What Ego
1991-01-01
Emptiness And Compassion
1992-01-01
Emptiness And Mindfulness
1992-01-01
Emptiness And Samsara
1993-01-01
Emptiness And Trust
1988-01-01
Emptiness Is Form - India
1991-01-01
Emptiness Of Desire
1991-01-01
Emptiness Of Dharma
1991-01-01
Emptiness Of Finite Existence
1992-01-01
Emptiness Of Perception
1994-08-20
Emptiness Of Roles
1989-08-01
Ending Of Duality
2001-01-01
Engaged Buddhism
1983-04-19
Enlightenment: Near Or Far
1992-04-12
Everyday Life With Guided Meditation
1980-08-13
Expansiveness
1980-01-01
Expansiveness
1999-04-29
Exploring Openness
1984-09-01
Fear As Practice
1984-09-01
Fearlessness
1984-07-01
Feelings
1981-08-15
Finding Space
1984-09-01
First Morning Instructions
1984-01-01
First Year Of Fatherhood
1981-08-19
Fit To Receive
1986-08-16
Fixation
1998-04-28
Focusing And Insight
1984-08-11
Focusing On The Mine
1994-04-28
Forgiveness
1988-01-01
Form Is Emptiness
1990-08-16
Freedom From Beliefs
1990-08-12
Freedom From Certainty
1989-08-01
Freedom From The Known And Unknown
1989-08-01
Freedom From The Known And Unknown
1989-08-01
Global Interconnectedness
1987-04-01
Going Deep Into Daily Life
1989-09-01
Going Somewhere; Going Nowhere
1984-08-20
Guided Body Meditation
1983-08-10
Guided Meditation: Feelings
1992-04-04
Heal The Earth
1989-02-11
Healing The Earth
1992-08-20
Heart Of The Matter
1997-08-01
Highs And Depth
2000-04-27
Immediate And The Ultimate
1984-04-22
In Our House: Our Apartment
1990-08-24
In The Presence Of Something
1999-08-15
Inquiry
1999-08-17
Inquiry
1999-08-19
Inquiry
1999-08-20
Inquiry
2000-04-24
Inquiry # 1
2000-08-13
Inquiry # 1
2000-04-25
Inquiry # 2
2000-08-15
Inquiry # 2
2000-04-27
Inquiry # 3
2000-08-17
Inquiry # 3
2000-08-18
Inquiry # 4
1999-04-26
Inquiry #1
1999-04-27
Inquiry #2
1999-04-29
Inquiry #3
1999-05-01
Inquiry #4
1992-04-07
Insight Meditation
1985-08-23
Inspiration
1993-12-15
Interview With Christopher On Totnes, Devon
1987-04-01
Introduction To Peace Vigil
1995-08-12
Introduction with Jose Reissig
1989-02-10
Introduction: Healing The Earth
1983-04-29
Introductory Talk
1985-04-19
Jim Perkins Interview
1986-01-01
Learning To Take Responsibility
1985-08-29
Letting Go Of Form
1986-04-12
Life Without Goals
1988-01-01
Listening Without Residue
1991-08-11
Living In A Free Way
1984-09-01
Looking At Objects
1992-01-01
Love
1992-01-01
Love #1A: The Capacity Of Love
1992-01-01
Love #1B: Being In Love
1992-01-01
Love #2A: Love And Understanding
1992-01-01
Love #2B: The Art Of Gentleness
1992-01-01
Love #3A: Exploring Love
1992-01-01
Love #3B: Love Through Relatedness
1992-01-01
Love #4A: Love And Liberation
1992-01-01
Love #4B: Love Of The Planet
1985-01-01
Love And Sexuality
1988-08-01
Love And Understanding
1984-04-12
Love Of The Practice
1993-08-26
Making Change
1993-01-01
Making Contact
1993-08-26
Making Decisions
1987-04-01
Making The Connection
1996-04-27
Marriage Of Form And Formless
1990-08-25
Materiality And Spirituality
1978-07-03
Maya - Living In Separation
1984-01-01
Meditation And Intensity
1983-07-31
Meditation And Self Knowledge
1983-08-16
Meditation Instructions-An Outline
1996-08-13
Meditation On The Impersonal
1983-04-17
Meditation Retreat
1985-08-31
Mind-Body Consciousness
1988-01-01
Mindfulness Of Views And Opinions
1992-04-08
Morning Instructions Thru 4-9-92
1992-04-05
Morning Meditation Instruction
1999-08-19
Mudita: Appreciative Joy
1989-02-18
Mudita/Joy
1988-08-01
Mystery
2000-04-29
Neither Clinging To Nor Avoiding
1998-08-29
Neither Here Nor There, Nor In-Between
1985-08-22
Non-Seizing
1987-01-01
Not Having
1993-01-01
Not Of This World
1982-04-22
Nuclear Aggression
1986-04-20
Observation Of The Mind
1985-09-04
On Jesus
1985-08-18
On Retreats And Meditation
1994-08-19
On The Move
1992-08-22
Open Discussion: Criticism
1993-04-23
Opening Talk
1994-04-22
Opening Talk
2000-08-11
Opening Talk
1986-08-17
Opening Talk
1998-04-25
Opening Talk with Sally Clough: Meditation Instructions (Dnu)
1992-04-03
Opening Talk: Heal The Earth Weekend
1992-04-05
Opening Talk: Seven Day Course
1975-08-17
Opening Up
1986-01-01
Our Relationship To The World
2000-08-12
Outer And Inner Pilgrimage
1992-08-18
Paradox Of Experience
1983-08-15
Parent's Course Introduction
1992-04-06
Past And Present/Present And Past
1984-08-18
Path Without A Goal
1987-04-01
Peace And The Pain Of The Planet
1985-04-18
Peacemaking
2000-08-18
Politics Of Life Styles
1989-08-01
Possibilities Off The Path
1985-04-15
Power Of Mind
1985-04-12
Practice And Application Of Meditation
1993-01-01
Problem No Problem
1994-08-16
Process Of Meditation
1986-08-21
Prospective And Their Relevance
1996-04-21
Quest For Security
1991-04-27
Questions And Answers
1994-04-01
Questions And Answers From Bodh Gaya - 1
1994-04-01
Questions And Answers From Bodh Gaya - 2
1994-04-01
Questions And Answers From Bodh Gaya - 3
1994-04-01
Questions And Answers From Bodh Gaya - 4
1990-08-18
Relating To Relating
1984-07-30
Religion And Meditation
2000-04-23
Right Action
1997-04-20
Right Attitude
1992-04-11
Samsara And Emptiness
1983-08-18
Security In Relationships
1997-08-14
Seeing Deeply Into Experience
1994-04-23
Seeing Into The Nature Of Things
1986-08-24
Seeing Into The Nature Of Things
2000-08-14
Self And Freedom
1998-08-18
Self Deception & Bill Clinton
1984-08-15
Self Identity
1985-04-16
Self Image
1984-09-01
Selflessness
1991-04-26
Service And Suchness
1984-08-27
Service To Other Humans
1981-08-17
Sexuality III: To Men
1984-08-25
Space And Needs
1985-04-19
Spaciousness And Inquiry
1993-01-01
Spiritual Ambition
1983-04-22
Spiritual Exercises
1993-01-01
Spiritual Romanticism
1989-04-14
Spiritual Unity
1993-04-30
Spirituality In Daily Life
1984-06-01
Striving In Meditation
1990-04-24
Study And Practice
1997-08-01
Taking Refuge
1998-08-15
Teaching & Practice Of Metta
1994-04-25
The Act Of Knowing
1997-08-01
The Act Of Trust
1984-08-10
The Art Of Practice
1995-04-25
The Attention Of Human Being
1983-04-25
The Balanced Mind
1988-01-01
The Bodhisattva Ideal
1994-08-01
The Buddha Dharma
1991-08-15
The Cessation Of Mind And Body
1999-05-01
The Compassion Of The Middle Way
1993-08-15
The Concern With Size
1999-08-15
The Core Teachings
1991-08-13
The Depth Of Feeling
1997-08-12
The Dharma Of Awareness
1996-08-16
The Emptiness Of I
1989-08-01
The Emptiness Of This And That
1986-04-18
The Empty Way
1990-08-29
The End Of The Path
1984-08-20
The Everlasting Opening
1995-08-19
The Experience Of No-Self
1997-04-24
The Final Seeing
1995-04-27
The Finding Of Wisdom
1994-08-14
The Forces Of Ego
1990-08-13
The Formative Experience
1990-01-01
The Freedom Series: The Psychology Of Freedom
1989-01-01
The Freedom Series: What Does It Mean To Be Free?
1984-01-01
The Guided Body Meditation
1991-09-01
The Impact Of The World Upon Us
1994-08-01
The Incomprehensible
1988-01-01
The International Sangha
1993-01-01
The Last World
1983-01-01
The Marriage Of Inner And Outer
1985-08-03
The Mystical Experience
1985-04-13
The Natural Unfolding
1986-04-15
The Nature Of Doing
1991-08-10
The Nature Of Reality/Personality
1993-01-01
The Nature Of Walking
1993-08-19
The Nature Of Wanting
1993-08-14
The Nature Of Wisdom
1995-04-24
The Negative Emotions
1990-08-26
The Personal And Impersonal
1984-04-10
The Phenomenon Of Anger
1994-08-18
The Place Of The Heart
1991-12-01
The Poetry Commentaries #3A: "The Sentence" By Juli Daniel
1991-12-01
The Poetry Commentaries #3B: "The Hundred Thousand Songs Of Milarepa"
1991-12-01
The Poetry Commentaries #4: "The Poetry Of City Life"
1991-12-01
The Poetry Commentaries #4A: "Love And Other Difficulties" By Rilke
1991-04-20
The Politics Of The Middle Way
1989-08-01
The Process Of Dependent Arising
1998-04-30
The Range Of Experience: Liberation-The Middle Way
1995-08-17
The Samadhi Of The Heart
1989-08-01
The Search For The Sacred
2000-08-17
The Seer And The Seeing
1993-04-27
The Situational Life
1990-04-27
The Spirituality Of Organizing
1984-08-28
The Spoken Word
1995-08-13
The State Of One's Life
1993-08-20
The Substance Of This World
1984-04-20
The Taste Of Spirituality
1988-01-01
The Teachings, Not The Teacher
1991-04-25
The Transcendence Of Love
1986-08-25
The Ultimacy Of Non-Realization
1985-04-20
The Unconditioned
1991-08-16
The Usefulness Of Mindfulness And Meditation
1996-04-25
The Waiting Mind
1997-04-22
The Way Of Meditation
1993-08-21
The Way Of Service
1987-04-01
The Way Things Appear
1988-01-01
The Weight Of Knowledge
1999-08-20
The Wonder Of Emptiness
1987-04-01
Thought
1996-04-23
Thoughts Upon Thoughts
1993-08-28
Three Jewels Of Western Existence
1984-09-01
Three Types Of Meditative Experiences
1985-09-02
Through Interconnectedness
1982-08-18
Time
1989-08-01
Today And Tomorrow
1984-09-01
Towards Seeing Afresh
1993-01-01
Tradition And The Timeless
1997-08-16
Transmission
1993-01-01
Trust And Emptiness
1987-04-01
Trust And The Here And Now
1979-04-18
Truth For Truth's Sake
1998-01-01
Turning Points
1986-01-01
Untitled Talk
1984-01-01
Vitality
1984-08-12
Western Dharma: Opening Talk
1985-09-07
Western Sangha
1995-08-15
What Am I Doing Back Here?
1999-04-25
What Are The Priorities
1995-08-18
What Is Commitment?
1993-01-01
What Is Meditation?
1998-08-01
What Is This Emptiness?
1993-04-24
What Matters
1986-08-19
What Nourishes Us?
1999-04-30
What The Teachings Point To
1999-08-17
What's Behind Everything
1990-08-11
Where Am I Going?
1992-08-21
Wisdom Of Renunciation
1978-06-27
Wise Attention
1997-08-10
Wise Attention
2000-04-25
Wise Attention
1989-02-13
Working With Stress
1989-08-01
World Of Feelings
1994-04-24
World Of Mind Of Body
1990-04-23
Worldly And Spiritual Feelings
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Select one of Christopher Titmuss's 36 retreats
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1990-04-20
7 Day Meditation/Inquiry with C Titmuss
1990-08-10
9 Day Meditation/Inquiry with C Titmuss
1990-12-28
New Year's Retreat with Jack Kornfield
1991-04-19
Heal The Earth Weekend with C Titmuss
1991-04-21
7 Day Meditation/Inquiry with C Titmuss
1991-08-09
9 Day Meditation/Inquiry with C Titmuss
1991-08-30
3 Day Weekend Retreat with Ruth Denison
1991-12-28
8 Day New Year Retreat w/ Jack Kornfield
1992-04-03
Heal The Earth Weekend + 7 Day Med/Inq
1992-04-03
Heal The Earth Weekend with C Titmuss
1992-08-14
9 Day Meditation/Inquiry with C Titmuss
1992-12-28
9 Day New Year Retreat w/ Jack Kornfield
1993-04-23
7 Day Meditation/Inquiry with C. Titmuss
1993-08-13
9 Day Meditation/Inquiry with C. Titmuss
1993-08-27
"Weekend Retreat: J Goldstein, S Salzberg"
1993-09-03
3 Day Weekend Retreat with Ruth Denison
1993-09-22
1993 Three Month Retreat
1994-03-25
9 Day Retreat with Larry Rosenberg
1994-04-22
7 day Meditation/Inquiry with C Titmuss
1994-08-12
9 Day Meditation/Inquiry with C Titmuss
1995-04-21
7 Day Retreat The Green Buddha
1995-08-12
8 Day Vipassana Retreat
1996-04-20
8 Day Vipassana Retreat
1996-08-10
8 Day Vipassana Retreat
1997-04-19
Insight Meditation and Inquiry (8 days)
1997-06-07
Vipassana Retreat (10 days)
1997-07-31
5 Day Family Retreat
1997-08-09
Insight Meditation and Inquiry (8 days)
1997-12-28
New Year's Retreat (10 days)
1998-04-25
Insight Meditation & Inquiry (8 days)
1998-08-15
Born on the 4th of July or After (8 days)
1999-04-24
Vipassana Retreat (8 days)
1999-08-13
"Born on the 4th of July,1955 or After, Retreat (8 days)"
2000-04-22
Insight Meditation and Inquiry
2000-08-11
"Born on the 4th of July, 1956 or After Retreat"
2000-12-28
New Year's Retreat
