Frits Koster

Frits Koster (born 1957) worked as a meditation teacher, teaching mindfulness and compassion practices in meditation centers and psychiatric institutions in the Netherlands, Germany, and other European countries. He spent six years as a Buddhist monk in monasteries in Thailand and Burma. Together with Erik van den Brink, he developed the eight-week, mindfulness-based MBCL course (Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living), focused on compassion practice, and trained MBCL teachers across Europe.