Picture at an exhibition
Last weekend we headed to the Seattle area and set up a table in the exhibitors room at the 2015 Therapeutic Touch International Association (TTIA) conference. The theme of the conference was “A Community of Healers”. We had a great time. There were a lot of great stories from the frontiers of healing. It was an inspiring gathering of many friends and accomplished women -- including Dr. Dolores Krieger -- who is still going strong in her early 90’s. She gave an impressive keynote address that strongly pointed a path to the future.
On Sunday afternoon it was over to the Theosophical Society in Seattle, where Leonie and I spoke on the virtues known as the Four Immeasurable. These are loving-kindness (metta in the Pali language), compassion (karuna), joy (mudita) and equanimity (upekkha). They are also known as the Brahmaviharis, which translates as the abodes of Brahma. These are said to be innate qualities that reside within each of us and can be awakened with practice. They are immeasurable (as Brahma is immeasurable) in that once awakened there is no limit to our capacity to put them to good use in helping to relieve suffering and discontent.
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