He really enjoyed meeting us, and will hopefully come again. He sent an email saying “I really enjoyed visiting the group… a great bunch!”
He lead the metta bhavana meditation using a very powerful method using the breath that I had not come across before.
I asked him where he got it from, and he told it was from chapter 4 of the book “Mindful Emotion – a short course in kindness” by Dr Paramandhu Groves and Dr Jed Shamel. There is a 20 minute guided meditation you can listen along to at https://kindnessbehaviourtraining.com/downloads-chapter-4/ . This book goes through different methods of doing the metta bhavana, so it might be of interest if you wanted to deepen your practice of this, or were having difficulties with it.
It was a very inspiring evening. Vajragupta talked about his love for solitary retreats especially in wild places and promoted his new book Wild Awake https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Awake-Alone-Offl…/…/ref=sr_1_1