Transcript
The overall structure of the course follows this metaphor of starting a fire.
When you’re starting a fire the first step is to find a way of making sparks. The second step is getting the sparks to catch on some tinder, and then - third step - you help the flame to spread and become stable. And at a certain point you have a self-sustaining fire, which you can just sit back and enjoy, and let it keep growing by itself - which is the fourth step. The progression of metta looks quite similar; that’s the progression that we’re going to go through with this course as well: finding a way to create sparks, getting them to catch into a stable flame, nourishing that flame, and then sitting back and enjoying the fire.