Awakening of Compassion. Christopher. Consciousness Cafe, Totnes, Devon, England.

Friday 26 January. 8 pm - 10 pm Live and Streamed

Totnes Consciousness Café
 
Friday, 26^th January 2024, 8pm to 10pm, both live and streamed.
St. John’s Church, Bridgetown, Totnes.
 
Christopher Titmuss on “Awakening of Compassion”

Session includes talk, short guided meditation, Q&A and small group sharing.
 
This Cafe will explore the relevance of compassion in these times of immense uncertainty from personal to global issues. The best of the Buddhist tradition points to the teachings of awakening. Compassion confirms an expression of awakening beyond the everyday mind with often its insular priorities of personal, family and nation state. What do we mean by compassion? What is the difference between compassion and empathy and compassion and pity? Can self-compassion reveal a blind spot?
 
A former Buddhist monk, Christopher Titmuss, a senior Dharma teacher in the West, offers retreats, leads Zoom meetings in five time zones and supports social/global change. His teachings emphasise becoming an agent of change. He gives a focus to ethics, insight meditation (vipassana), the expansive heart and inquiry into awakening. Poet, photographer, blogger, and social/political critic, he is the author of 22 books including Light on Enlightenment, Spiritual Roots of Mindfulness and The Political Buddha. He is the founder of the 12-month Mindfulness Teacher Training Course (MTTC). More than 1000 of his talks are freely available, e.g. on www.soundcloud.com and www.archive.org  He has lived in Totnes, Devon, England since 1981. For more details see  www.thebuddhawallah.org.
 
Cost: £5 (both live and streamed). Refreshments also available at venue
Booking: Via Eventbrite HERE