Daily Reflection Sit

The 5 remembrances may generate fear to some people, but befriending them through the lens of the Bramaviharas can help us all appreciate each remembrance and become more mindful and grateful towards our life.

Can we view the Five Remembrances as a sacred apprenticeship with metta and care?

Using Joy Harjo’s poem Remember we are called to re-member ourselves back into the fabric of the natural world.

It is true that things won’t always be so, but they are so now.

Without meditation, by themselves these teachings could leave the glass half empty.

The Buddha encountered 4 divine messengers—an old person, a sick person, a corpse—which woke him up to the reality of this human life. The fourth, a radiant monk, gave him hope that there was a way out of the suffering that comes with being human. These five remembrances bring these truths to life.

We must commit and recommit to holding all of ourselves warmly and with care.

The importance of knowing how to calm ourselves by relaxing the body, the breath and the mind.