The last couple of weeks, the classes here, the theme was on forgiving ourselves, and

then last week the theme was forgiving others.

And the forgiveness practice traditionally and practically clears the way of our heart

for loving presence.

It gives us a real inner freedom to love without holding back.

And one of the descriptions of that freedom is the word meta, our loving kindness.

And what I'd like to do over these next few weeks is explore with you what are called

the Brahma-Vaharas, meta or loving kindness is the first of the Brahma-Vaharas, Brahma-Vaharas

mean divine abodes.

The Brahma-Vaharas are considered to be the expression of our awakened heart and mind.

When we're fully here, that hearingness gets expressed in these four qualities, one

of them is loving kindness, meta.

The second is karuna, which means compassion.

The third is mudita, which means joy.

And the fourth is upeka, which means equanimity, it's got the quality of wisdom.

They're entirely interrelated.

And with each one, there are practices that we can take on on purpose that can help

us to awaken these qualities of heart and mind.

So we'll be exploring them, and if you can't make one of the four weeks now that we have

everything available to download or podcast, you might want to keep up with them as they,

as I mentioned, they really fit together in a very beautiful, amazing way.

So that's the invitation.

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