I'm glad you found the course beneficial. Regarding... > "I'm sorry that you left on day 6." ..., just to clarify, I previously stated ... "I stayed the ful

I'm glad you found the course beneficial. Regarding... > "I'm sorry that you left on day 6." ..., just to clarify, I previously stated ... "I stayed the full 10 days but the course didn't get any better by the end." It was the GP who stayed for 6 days. Regarding... > "If you can't do Metta, then you will benefit from finding out why you can't do it." I have no problem in accessing feelings of compassion, I just don't want to be forced to do it. In my opinion, obligation can take the joy out of anything, and forced love doesn't make any sense. As soon as we seek to control love we kill it. It's far better to be remove the barriers that hold you back from experiencing it, and just let it happen naturally (again, just in my opinion). The main issue I had with the course was that Goenka was steering the experience towards a certain set of interpretations of the experience. What I wanted was to be taught the technique and then be left alone to find what it uncovered. In my opinion, meditation is a personal experience, and I did not think it helped to frame the experience in the way Goenka did, especially as the people going through the retreat are likely to be in a vulnerable position (isolated, limited human interaction, limited time to adapt to new experiences). For me, attending the course was a mistake, one that I only grew from as I overcame the damage it caused through finding other teachers that I could connect with, but that being said, if you found the course beneficial I'm glad for you, I'm not trying to diminish your experience. I hope you can continue to find personal insight through meditation.