So the invitation is always a dormit

against the stream retreat is to talk about our own as teachers experience disclose how we practice the various tools.

And so I'm going to use this time to introduce the way the Brahma Vahars were taught to me.

And there, I have a slightly different take than probably what you've been practicing throughout the week,

which certainly doesn't mean that anyone's practices are wrong or right.

The farthest thing from the truth.

There's just different ways of understanding and implementing the meta-caruna moodita-upeka tools commonly known as the divine

abodes.

So when I was newly sober in the 1990s, I was not filled with a lot of love or compassion.

And I love or compassion.

And I was looking for some kind of spiritual tool

to develop some degree of self-forgiveness.

And I was already at that time a regular

attendee of various meditation centers as I had grown up in a Buddhist family, but I hadn't really been introduced to a formal

meta practice. And at what point somebody gave me, we traded in those days cassettes of

darma teachers.

This is how long ago it was.

Cossets were then replaced by CDs.

And when I first met my friend Craig,

he had this whole booklet of CDs filled with

different forest monks. before that there were these

little white cassettes that have been copied after copied and the and the

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