Christophers Dharma Blog

My arrival in India got off to a slow start at New Delhi railway station on January 22, 2010. The Rajdhani Express from New Delhi to Gaya took 30 hours instead of 12 hours. I spent the night on the platform with my shawl as a mattress , a sleeping bag as a duvet and the edge of my small backpack (with laptop etc) as a pillow. (more…)

The terrible tragedy of the massive earthquake in Haiti brings back memories of June 1967 when an earthquake struck a small city outside of Istanbul. At the time of the earthquake, I was sleeping in a bed in a dormitory on the top floor of a hostel in Istanbul. I was travelling along the hippy trail to India in the “Summer of Love.” (more…)

On the long train journey from New Delhi to Gaya, late due mostly due to fog, I wrote down 60 reasons to love India  after reading an article in the Sunday Times of India  in the home of Prama and Ranji on 60 reasons for the people of India to love India. (more…)

I love reading and writing poetry. In the early 1990’s, I self published (often called vanity publishing) a small book of around 100 of my poems and continued to write poems in various bursts since then in response to numerous situations – personal, the voice of others, spiritual, social and global events. (more…)

We had this remarkable situation with a total of 192 countries signing up to attend the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark last month. (more…)