Ultimate Listening - A Call To Arms
I can hear you, but I may not
listen to you. Likewise, you can hear me, but you may not listen to me. The
premise is this: listening and learning are not the same thing. Listening
matters when it comes to learning and concentration.
Listening cultivates wisdom and removes ignorance. It is like a torch that dispels ignorance. If you enrich your mental continuum by listening, on one can steal that wealth. It is the supreme wealth.
On listening, The Dalai Lama said that:
I am talking to you and you are listening to me. We are
generally under the impression that there is a speaker and an audience and
there is a sound of words being spoken. But if I search within myself, I will
not find the words and if you search yourselves you will not find them either
--- they are all void like empty space. Yet they are not completely
non-existent. This paradox relates to the dual nature of truth.
Similarly, J. Krishnamurti has this to say o the silent mind,
the listening mind:
Go into it. It means knowledge is time. If you are using
knowledge as a means of advancement, you are caught in time and therefore fear,
anxiety, and the whole process goes on. To enquire into the nature of the
ending of time requires a silent mind, a mind that is free to observe, not
frightened, free to observe the movement of time in yourself, how you depend on
it.
On learning, learning is like a passing wind.
I hear … and I forget
I see … and I
remember
I do … and I
understand
A Chinese proverb
So we forget something, say the recent stimuli, because of
our limited brainpower. Of course, there are other factors influencing our
perception. Some people say we have our historical records of reinforcement,
negatively or positively.
We have both bad memories and pleasant memories. We all want
to get rid of the bad ones, and keep the more desirable ones to cherish until
the last breath.
Life is just like that. It’s part of a bigger canvas.
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