We just added ten more audio talks from Christopher Titmuss to round out the year of 2006. Now you have available to you the complete list of talks by Christopher for that entire year. We encourage you to pick random talks when you have time and listen in a quite space. Remember to bring mindfulness to your sitting and pay close attention because there are several jewels of wisdom by was of Christopher’s kind and loving delivery and approach.

We also encourage you once you’ve listened to a talk to right down notes afterward and reflect on what you’ve heard then if it suits you make a note to apply one of the teachings to your daily life. After all that’s what we’re here for right… to listen, learn and practice!

Peace, love and blessings to you all.

Christopher Titmuss – The Doer

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I added two more audio clips to the Christopher Titmuss audio section today. I’m still working on getting all the year 2006 uploaded. Of course after 2006 is uploaded I’ll add 2007, 08, 09 and this year. But lets not get to far ahead of ourselves here… lol, be in the moment and right now I just added two more “An Inquiry at DFP, United Kingdom” and “Smile of The Snake”.

Christopher Titmuss – An Inquiry at DFP, United Kingdom

Christopher Titmuss – Smile of The Snake

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Wow I just got my mind blown again and… I love it!

Please have a listen to this 8 minute audio clip called, “The Little Garden” from A Course in Miracles. I’ve taken the time to type out the first part of the audio segment because this is the part that really grabbed me and demanded my attention.

I don’t want to over analyze and give you my interpretation but what I will say is that EVERYTHING said here especially in this beginning speaks to me as the truth. Basically what’s being said here is that we “You and I” are God, Love, Light or whatever label or word you want to use. We are it, only we cannot know it and the reason being is we set it up that way!

We are the impossible riddle trying to unravel itself and the only answer is there is no answer. We want to KNOW what we KNOW we KNOW as a result of this wanting to know ourselves or rather us wanting to KNOW “LOVE” we’ve literally become our own worst enemy.

Not to fear however because at the end of the day, decade or century no matter how strong this illusory life presents itself to be in the end… all there truly is, is LOVE.

It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body is a limit on love. The belief in limited love was it’s origin and it was made to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical for it was made to limit you. Can you who see yourself within a body know yourself as an idea?

Everything you recognize  you identify with externals, something outside itself… you cannot even think of God without a body or in some form you think you recognize.

Listen the body cannot know and while you limit your awareness to it’s tiny senses you will not see the grander that surrounds you. God cannot come into a body nor can you join him there, limits on love will always seem to shut him out and keep you a part from him. Why?

The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and complete idea… it draws a circle infinitely small around a very little segment of heaven splintered from the whole proclaiming that within it is your kingdom where God cannot enter. Within this kingdom “the human condition” the ego rules and cruelly. And to defend this little speck of dust it bids you fight against the universe, this fragment of your mind is such a tiny part of it that could you but appreciate the whole you would instantly see that it is like the smallest Sun-Beam to the Sun or like the faintest ripple on the surface of the ocean. In it’s amazing arrogance this tiny Sun-Beam has decided it is the Sun, this almost imperceptible ripple hails itself as the ocean.

Think how alone is this little thought that you have, this infinitesimal  illusion holding itself apart against the universe. The Sun becomes the Sun-Beams enemy that would devour it and the ocean terrifies the little ripple and wants to swallow it… listen yet neither Sun nor ocean is even aware of all this strange and meaningless activity they merely continue unaware that they are feared and hated by a tiny segment of themselves.

Please chime in after you’ve read and listened to the audio clip, I’m definitely interested to hear what others have to say regarding the subject matter discussed.

Peace and love to all.

If you’re like me then you probably have a bookshelf or two full of new-age and self-help books all telling you to live in the moment. But when life comes crashing down (presents you with an opportunity) and you find out your boyfriend or girlfriend has been unfaithful or you lose your purse or wallet with all your credit cards, info and cash… what the heck does being in the moment mean then?

Being present is a lot easier to talk about or philosophize than it is to actually do, wouldn’t you agree? Although it is seemingly difficult I think we can all agree that actually being present can make life a joy and blessed movement.

In my experience what gets in the way the most of me being present is the past. The past is such a sneaky little devil, he is insidious, clever and very persuasive. The past acts like he’s your best friend, someone you can depend on, he’s always there ready to listen and give suggestions about what to do in the moment and the future but if you examine closely you’ll discover that the past is a false prophet and truly epitomizes the definition of a pharisee (a sanctimonious, self-righteous, or hypocritical person).

Trippin over the past

Let me paint a picture for you. Imagine your walking down the street in your neighborhood heading to a friends house, in order to make it to your friends house safely and unharmed you need to look forward eyes ahead and moving forward. Imagine if you were to walk down this busy street walking forward but your head was turned in the opposite direction. Also imagine that there’s someone you don’t know walking behind you holding a mirror so you can see whats ahead but as you know everything reflected in a mirror is distorted and backwards… an illusion.

To add to the confusion the person holding the mirror is telling you to turn left, turn right, stop, slow down… your right is his left, your left is his right. As you can see this whole scenario is mind boggling and confusing. Wouldn’t it be much simpler and efficient to just turn your head around and walk forward?

The same can be said for living your daily life. Life is so much more enjoyable and easy if you shift your attention from the past to the present moment.

Lessons from the past

Let us not throw the baby out with the bath water… the past does in fact have valuable lessons for us to learn from but let us not cling to the past or let our past mistakes and judgments color the choices we make today. As I have learned from spiritual teacher
J. Krishnamurti the past is full of knowledge and it is quite reasonable to access that past knowledge to drive a car, cook dinner or solve a math problem but it is quite a different thing when you access the past when meeting a new friend for the second or third time or when you meet a new person from a certain nationality or religion. The past has nothing to do with who your friend “actually is”… and your past experiences with someone from a particular religion, culture or nationality shouldn’t distract you from the person standing in front of you. The sad truth however is that all to often it does.

“Learning about yourself is not like learning a language or technology or a science, then you obviously have to accumulate and remember; it would be absurd to begin all over again, but in the psychological field learning about yourself is always in the present and knowledge is always in the past, and as most of us live in the past and are satisfied with the past knowledge becomes extraordinarily important to us. That is why we worship the erudite, the clever, the cunning. But if you are learning all the time, learning every minute, learning by watching and listening, learning by seeing and doing, then you will find that learning is a constant movement without the past.”

~J. Krishnamurti “Freedom From The Known”

When you walk into your place of work and you see the people you work with everyday… do you see them as they are or do you see them through the filter of your past experiences with them? I can tell you with 100% certainty if people I was acquainted with just a few years ago knew me today they would have know idea who I am. In the past I’ve been a partying, clubbing pill popping, irresponsible and immature raving machine but that person isn’t who I am today… as a matter of fact the two people are as different as day and night.

What I can appreciate however is who I am today. If it were not for my past who would I be? In that respect I give my past the reverence it deserves but I also realize that any emotions or feelings that arise from my past are false and only are relevant to my life if I choose to let them have my attention.

I was listening to a podcast of “A Course in Miracles” and they were speaking on this very subject, I found it quite interesting. The topic of discussion was the past and our emotions that are tied to the past. If you think about it, whenever you are feeling guilty, ashamed, envious or anger all of those emotions only have relevance if you access the past. So for example if you’re feeling guilty about some hateful things you said to a friend in drunkenness or just because you got in a fight… the guilt you’re feeling is arising only because you have chosen to give your attention to the past; if your attention were in the present moment there would be no guilt.

Now lets not blow things out of proportion and assume that just not thinking about your past will lead you to live a happy and joyous life. While it is certainly true life will become clearer and you will find manifesting what you really want in life is a million times easier you still have to be able to look at your past… only you must find the ability to not cling to it. The key to doing this is to have your roots in the present moment.

It’s so much easier said than done… I know, but like everything else practice makes perfect (practice helps you see that everything is already perfect). My practice is a daily movement that is tied together moment by moment, opportunity by opportunity. I’m no saint (yet), I still lose my cool when someone says something to upset me or someone cuts me off in traffic or steps on my shoe but nowadays I’m finding that more and more as soon as I get upset or am shook out of the present moment I’m finding my way back faster and faster.

Sometimes it’s not until I go to sleep late at night and I reflect on what my day was like. Lying there in bed looking over my day I can say to myself I could have handled that better or perhaps I didn’t need to raise my voice of give such an attitude about something so small and impermanent. The blessing here is being able to reflect but not judge yourself, cling or dwell on it. See it for what it is, make a mental note and move on; tomorrow is a new day or better yet the next moment is a new moment.

In conclusion

So moving forward, not looking back let us remember who we truly are. Who we truly are is who we are right now, not who we were ten seconds ago or ten years ago but infinitely right now. Like I said before this is so much easier said than done but I have a suggestion that might assist with the revolution (not evolution) of your mind. Evolution implies something to work toward but once you see love and truth there’s no evolution (nothing to work toward) rather instantly you revolutionize the way you think and act… instantly!

We all know up to now we’ve been slaves to our past, letting our past actions filter our decisions and choices in the present moment.

Who’s to say we can’t use this ability to our advantage?

Accessing the past doesn’t have to always be about the negative or bad, as a matter of fact if you make a shift in your perception you can use this conditioned ability to access the positive moments from your past. If you find that you’re “in the dumps”, depressed, angry or otherwise remember that you’re living in the past and you need to be present. One helpful way to get back to the present moment is to build a mental bridge, a bridge of positivity and love.

For example if you find that you’re dwelling on something that and ex-lover said to you that was hateful choose to remember a loving moment you shared rather than the negative. Doing this is to be used as a tool to get back to the present moment, to bring a smile to your face and love back into your immediate frame of mind.

It is important however to realize even when you do build your bridge back to the present moment, when you’re finally back to the moment you will need to let go of the past even though its a loving feeling, a joyous memory we want to be careful not to cling to it otherwise eventually you’ll want to cross back over the bridge to access the past and as we’ve discussed… life is in the moment. Remember, like Ram Dass says… “be here now”.

Yes the image above is actually real, I didn’t make this up and it’s not from some movie set. Did you know that God is against drunkenness, sodomy and fornication? Well apparently these folks are in direct communication with the big guy up stairs. Oh and lets make no mistake about it… God is a man and he hates drunks, homosexuals and people who have sex before going to church or city hall to sign a piece of paper!

As you can probably tell I’m trying to make light of the above ignorance with humor. Sadly the fact of the matter is there isn’t really anything funny about kids in the middle of New York streets brainwashed repeating what their ignorant parents program them to say.

Instead of me feeding into the frenzy of hate, ignorance and fear lets examine what it is we think fornication is. I’ll start by checking out what the dictionary says.

So that’s what the dictionary says, basically sex between two unmarried people is what is called fornication. It’s too bad the definition for fornication in reality means much more than a sentence in the dictionary.

If an Alien came here from another planet looked up fornication in the dictionary it would probably seem like any other explanation for any given word. You and I both know (in the real world) fornication implies much more than a person who had sex with another person out of wedlock.

In the real world if you have sex with someone out of wedlock not only are you a fornicator but you are a sinner, deviant, lost soul and you’re going straight to hell. Let us not forget if you are a gay man or lesbian… you’ve struck sinner gold! You’re going to the really hot version of hell that’s even worse than the regular hell full of non-believers, abortion doctors, AIDS victims and Osama Bin Laden.

It’s mind blowing to think that there are people in the world who absolutely believe without a doubt, a couple who has a one night stand or lovers who have been together for years out of wedlock are going to the same fiery hell (assuming there is a hell) that Osama Bin Laden and Hitler reside.

What do you believe?

I don’t know what you believe but here’s what I know. I know my beliefs have nothing to do with fornication because I don’t have any beliefs about fornication to begin with, unless you’re a parent why should anyone?

Without sounding like I’m holier than thou, if you do judge others for their sex life perhaps you should examine more closely your feelings about your beliefs. What gives you the right or authority to judge anyone?

It’s not often that I quote the Bible but to make a point I’ll use these old (interpreted) words from history to illustrate a point.

So let us play this game and assume there is a man in the skies above and he’s keeping count of what we do, blessing us with the gift of “sin”. So assuming we can in fact sin, even so… what gives any of us the right to judge, remark or shun others for so called sinning?

I think all the Muslims, Jews, Christians and any other group who subscribe to living a life judging others… it’s high time you live your life with compassion and love rather than fear and loathing.

Are you kidding me right now? We still live in a world where people are judging each other for who they sleep with, how they sleep with them and if they did it with a signed piece of paper or not. If the end times are near, the end won’t come by the hand of god but by the mouth of modern day church goers who ignorantly and insidiously perpetuate fear and hate.

In the name of God, all those who delegate the smallest fraction of time, energy and effort to smite those who do what they will with their sex lives… please reconsider your actions.

I ask you on behalf of the whole of humanity to reconsider your beliefs and actions, whether you know it or not YOU are destroying this world with fear.

Are you in love or fear?

What is it to love your fellow man? Does love have anything to do with hate, judgment, or sin? I highly doubt it. Love is all encompassing all embracing and the end all be all of this universe.

Love is what binds us, love is what holds this world together and any personal emotion, aggression or movement away from that love is not in praise of God, Jehovah, Allah, Jah, Christ or Zues but a ignorant action that comes from a human being who’s not living a life of love and compassion.

Love is God my friends, love is what it’s all about. The next time you find yourself judging someone for living their life the way God intended them to, check yourself and remember you’re not loving.

If you want, you can even insert WWDJ, (what would Jesus do) instead of… am I being a loving person. I can assure you from what I’ve read of  Jesus, he would not judge anyone for anything and if he were alive today he’d tell you to do the same thing.

Ready to get your Zen on?

I’m not asking or calling all people to start subscribing to the school of Zen that would be redundant as all labels and religions are divisive and separate you and I from our fellow man.

What I am asking of us all is to apply some Zen to your life, a.k.a. mindfulness. If we could only observe and be mindful of ourselves completely in our daily lives then perhaps there would be more love in the world and less fear.

Knowing that God is love and love is all there truly is, is there any room in our lives to judge one another? If we can remember moment by moment in our daily lives that God has nothing to do with fear, judgment or sin then we can be godly.

So the next time you go to quote the Bible, Kuran, Old Testament, Upanishads or Bhagavad Gita remember none of that has anything to do with what is actually going on at the moment. All of those books and scriptures are of the past and we’re not living in the past, you and I are pledging to live in the moment… right here right now.

If you and I can be in the present moment when we are making breakfast, gossiping with friends, gathered around the water cooler at work or listening to the reverend at church anything that we think or any words that come out of our mouths will be from a place of love not fear.

If we can start to live our lives individually in the moment and our thoughts and words are of love not fear… think of the reality we can manifest.

Absolute peace in this world is 100% possible. I don’t care if you’ve been spoon fed whatever religion you’re currently subscribing to WE HUMAN BEINGS are ready to move beyond the fear of conditioning and child programming… we’re ready for heaven on earth.

Let’s be the change we want to see in the world. No more gossip, no more back biting, no more living in the shadow of dogma and fear.

I have tremendous faith in mankind but “my faith” in mankind is useless and meaningless. Faith, beliefs and words mean absolutely nothing but we’ve been conditioned to put a tremendous amount importance in all the above.

I’m asking you to look at what our faith, beliefs, words and thoughts have manifest in the world we live in today. Don’t take my word for it… you owe it to yourself and the rest of the world to seriously examine all of this quietly and deeply.

If we are to ever live in a world where there is peace, no wars and we all have food and shelter we must all do our part as individuals to make that world a reality. We need to move past all the ideas about peace, love and happiness and start living it.

Let us put down our holy books and scriptures. Let us stop talking about what the past says we should do in the future. Let us live in the moment where love resides and from that sacred place let our thoughts and actions manifest the revolution of universal unconditional love and peace.