What Is Listening?

 We never really listen to each other. When you really listen, time slows down. What does this really mean? Say, when we are listening to the rain and the raindrops are falling. We don’t have any expectation of how the raindrops should fall. We have no preference for the rain. At this moment, only the rain is present. The person who is listening to the rain disappears. In this situation, time slows down.

 

When we can listen like this, we become sharp, clear, and enlightened. However, once the “I”—thought and “should”—appears, it becomes crowded and busy. When we just listen without the “I”, the ability to be aware arises.

 

When you can be aware with clarity, you will be aware immediately when the “I” shows up. This immediate awareness brings out your insights. You don’t have your insights by reading a book. You don’t get your insights from school but from pure listening. When pure listening arises in you, you have the chance to liberate yourself from your “I”. You become liberated from your mind, liberated from the challenges of life. You can only know your conditioning and mind in this pure state.

 

Just listen. Listen to any sound. Be aware of how you listen. What kind of feelings arise in you? What thoughts arise in you? Just be aware without taking any action. It’s really important to be aware of the rising thoughts. Every thought is connected to another. With this attention, a different energy field is created, and insights arise freely from the “I”.

 

How are you when you are listening? Are your anger or grief sufferings still there? When you are listening, they stop temporarily. They are not functioning at that moment. You are not using your anger to listen. You are not using your grief to listen. You are not using your mind to listen.

 

Listening without our mind opens up our self-sufficient energy. The heart is still. The senses get even sharper and clearer. No intervention. It is a pure and unknown state. At this moment, we enter another space, another dimension. We are connected with energy from another dimension. The energy cleansing happens by itself at this moment. The cleansing process is intensified if you speak the Letting Go Sentences.

 

Suzhen Liu

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