What an impressive story, the one about your teacher! I always found astonishing the equilibrium, the peace of mind Tibetans monks achieve.
It’s accepting what it goes and act on it without regretting, feeling of shame or hits on the chest.
Compassion is so needed on Western World. We have been taught the idea of sacrifice, sins and the feeling of guilty as a way for a future afterlife that many times it’s hard to feel compassion especially toward ourselves. It’s very contradictory because then we only need to confess our sins, make a penitence and that’s it. All it’s solve. Nothing is learnt in my opinion or changed.

It’s curious Jesus Christ if he indeed exist and many clues draw us to his existence, showed and practice Compassion, then things took another path and the feeling of guilty and punishment were imposed.

I’m not a religious person but if I had to follow one, it would be Buddhism.

You are very lucky to have had such a great teacher.

Finally, I wanted to stress again on the point you brought out in your first post of this thread. This technique about the “ touch of light”. It’s so beautiful. I loved it so much. And we need it as we need to feed ourselves.