Tag:  Listening

• Learning is an active-present of the word, not the past-present. August 12, 2010

  So, we are going to find out the origin, the beginning, of thought; and this is important. Please listen to this, not just merely to the words. You know what it is to listen? You listen, not in ord...

• Do not listen to learn, but listen with self-abandonment so that you see for yourself the true or the false. October 29, 2010

  You know what it is to listen? You listen, not in order to learn. Do not listen to learn, but listen with self-abandonment so that you see for yourself the true or the false. It means that you n...

• Life is really both a challenge and a response, and if we do not know how to respond truly, there will be misery. May 24, 2014

  Before we continue the discussion about fear, death and love, we should discuss quite an important subject - the art of listening. Life is really both a challenge and a response, and if we do not k...

• I think there is an art to listening. June 17, 2014

  I think we ought to spend some time considering what is right listening. I think there is an art to listening. Most of us are accustomed to translate what is being said into our own terms, interpre...

• ... the difficulty is that we do not know how to listen, how to see, and how to hear because when a thing that is said is new, we put it into old bottles, fit it into old terminologies and therefore we spoil it, like 'new wine put into old bottles'. June 18, 2014

  Most people meet, but on different levels and at different times, whereas what we are trying to do is not only to listen, but also at the same time to be creative, which is not merely following or ...

• I refuse to be a gramophone; but you are accustomed merely to listen, which means that you are really not following at all. June 14, 2015

  What we are trying to do here is to think out the problem together - you are not merely listening to a gramophone. I refuse to be a gramophone; but you are accustomed merely to listen, which means ...