ten years and ten days

Aged 22, Christopher Titmuss quit his job as a news reporter in London in March 1967 to make an overland journey to the East with reliance on a tight budget. Dissatisfied with the West, he set off in late April 1967 heading to the East to learn about himself and other ways of life, cultures and religions. Based on 400 letters, 20 diaries and memory, his book includes descriptions of life on the road, the hippy life, mind-altering drugs, romantic encounters and brushes with death. He travelled through 20 countries, including four years in Thailand and two years in India as a Buddhist monk. Christopher describes his meditation experiences and mindfulness practices in the monastery, forest and nine months in a cave. He also met with leading spiritual teachers of India and Thailand offering candid perceptions. TEN YEARS AND TEN DAYS has the potential to inspire readers to explore their experience as a human being living between the sky above and earth below. He arrived back home in early May 1977.A senior spiritual teacher in the West, Christopher Titmuss has been teaching retreats and courses worldwide since the mid-1970s. He is the author of 20 books, including Light on Enlightenment, The Political Buddha and the Spiritual Roots of Mindfulness. Poet, social critic and weekly blogger, he lives in Totnes, Devon, England.