Cattāri Brahmavihārā

As much as I would like it to be otherwise, there is simply no substitute for a real life spiiritual community despite the fact that I continue to benefit from my virtual contact with practictioners through blogs like this one, various for a and online training programs in which I have taken part. For reasons that I suspect have to do with the absence of a sense of obligation to others, I have never been able to follow through or benefit from purely online training. I don’t know what that says about me (if anything at all) but I do recognize the necessity and preciousness of spiritual friends and will be sure to act in accor