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This Sunday we have a guest teacher, Mal Huxter.
Mal’s topic is the Five Recollections.
The five recollections are reminders of the realities of aging, sickness, death, being parted from what we hold dear and the fact that we are the owners of our actions. The Buddha recommended that everyone, lay or monastic, should recollect these realities on a daily basis, as they can bring great peace with the realities of life. Please be warned. This talk addresses the fact that we will all die. Though this may sound morbid, it is actually quite sobering and leading to equanimity.
Mal Huxter is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a Dharma teacher. He is the author of “Healing the heart and mind with mindfulness. Ancient path, present moment”, Routledge 2016. He designs and conducts courses, workshops and silent retreats. He has been teaching mindfulness and the four heart qualities (loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity) to the general public, clinical populations, therapists and other professionals since 1991. As a psychologist he is a teacher of MSC and CEB and trained in a range of therapies including CFT. As a meditator and meditation teacher he began training in Buddhist meditation practices in 1975, living in Thailand as a Buddhist monk in the forest tradition for two years in the late 1970’s. Though mostly within the Theravada he has also practiced within Tibetan Mahayana and Zen traditions. For more info about Mal go to: https://www.malhuxter.com/