Friday, August 19, 2005

Friday Thought: Listen

Listening is the beginning of awareness. It's not really thinking. Listen to the world that meets you today. Listen with all your heart.

--Don
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

From Jack Ricchiuto's Jack/Zen blog (http://www.jackzen.com/archives/2005/05/deep_listening.html), a favorite thought about listening

"What is deep, authentic listening? Listening invites people to see beyond what they've already seen. In deep listening there is no resistance and therefore people are no longer stuck in the confines of their experience. Listening gives them freedom to explore and discover. Listening opens a space large enough for people to become transcendent.

Listening is something we all know how to do. We do not need to learn how to listen. The only thing that inhibits listening is the urge to problem solve.

As my friend June Holley said this morning, listening allows the emergence of the sparkling part of what's real."

11:19 AM
Anonymous said...

Deep listening is attention that is not even an action (karma), but inaction, being still. Listening to the silence that you are, and that underlies all 'noise', is not an act of the mind. It is simply Being, which is simply who we are. Peace, we will discover, is who we are, if we listen closely enough by resting in whatever sight, sound, smell, taste, bodily sensation, or thought that may arise. And, contrary to what we may believe, we are never not who we truly are. How could we be?
anonymous dan

11:37 AM

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