How to develop listening meditation ability.
How to purify yourself through the sense of hearing from Observing Life Sound Bodhisattva.
When we listen to other people we are listening to what we want to hear.
Firstly, you always have a ‘character’ there which describes how you listen. It is the way you listen to anything. It is the way you listen to everything.
This Buddhism wisdom is to help you observe ‘how’ you listen and purify it back to neutral.
You will be surprised at what happens to your world when your listening changes.
Secondly, you always listen for some purpose.
If you have this you can’t create empty, joyfully-relaxed listening ability.
Thirdly, in fact we naturally create the opposite power.
Stressful, possessive, narrow-minded, not sensitive to be aware of other people.
Listening, but really listening too much to whats going on in your own head.
Finally, we listen to words only, not really feel their heart.
So if we were to let go of these ways of listening we can create something different.
In Buddhist philosophy they call this listening pure or empty.
This listening you have a chance to feel others.
You’re not in your own ego with your busy mind and your own attitude, desires, emotions.
This is your chance to be aware of someone else. Their attitudes, desires, emotions.
You can stop answering only the skin deep layer. Stop sharing poor communication with others.
When we communicate badly, skin-deep, we don’t understand each other, and then naturally anger appears.
A says something. B answers something else.
A feels B is not really listening, they catch some words but not really feel it.
A is not happy, so asks more questions from different angles.
B not understands why A is angry “but I answered it..” – start arguing….
The World is a mirror system
The World is a mirror system – you see the world has a dirty face, but it is your dirty face. If you have a bad attitude then people will have a bad attitude back to you.
When someone catches only your words but doesn’t feel you, you feel like “Oh that person doesn’t care.”
When that happens many times your emotions will break down with that person and you will feel distant from them.
Change your awareness
How to develop this Buddhist wisdom into your life.
This listening ability brings a neutral way:
- Try to be really pure not already have a prepared position;
- You have no position you just want to know their position – what they say;
- Try to understand what they feel, and what they’re looking for,
- You are not involved with your own judgemental mindset and influence;
- Don’t put any of your ego connection onto their ego or their subject until you truly understand why they say what they say;
- Then that’s called pure understanding ability.
If you can do that you create a great ability.
Also that ability is amazing to purify yourself.
Because every time you do that purify system with yourself, that nice peaceful feeling becomes your natural power.
Light no stress.
Because my listening ability is more pure, even while I’m listening I’m aware of your position, character, intention, style, habits, aware of your smile, your intention, your emotion.
To get rid of your ego just directly feel other people, then there is no space for other egos to appear.
When you are aware of 2 people, 2 positions, ideas, characters, then 3 ppl to find a middle way.
Eventually this habit will make your observation power sharper, wiser, and your ego lower.
Listening
When you try and practice a good intention to listen, then you can step up to create joyful listening ability, create the ability not to get moody,
What if someone talks bullshit?
You can still be sharp without hurting feelings, if it doesn’t apply to you, you’re not interested, that’s called not accepting blindness.
But then you need to develop an art power, so you’re not against it but in a gentle way show other angles, make them pay attention to other angles.
So it says I’m listening and paying attention to a point then guide them, oh do you want to try this way and see what it looks like, still away like water, still listen to make sure you caught the meaning, not for and not against.
If no point then just create distance in a friendly way.
Listening ability – practice all time, whether you aware or not aware.
Even with family – say no, with softer, gentle care, sharp but kind, even if it’s ridiculous, try to have less attitude. No bad words, no raise voice, against them.
The Buddhism karma to not disrespect your parents doesn’t mean you have to listen, just means no bad attitude.
High level listening you can reach high level meditation.
Observing Life Sound meditation teaches this system.
When you practice the listening ability above with other people, when you take out your I, your own possessive, when you have no goal for yourself, you can begin to purify yourself, you can make your own ego I disappear, you can make yourself more relaxed.
Your own personal, desire stress can go.
When you show sincere heart, people change and become open heart back to you.
If people don’t open up, it might be they are afraid, personal, sensitive questions but they would like to but they don’t know how, then you can show sincere, no judgement, show sincere to this person that you really care, then they can continue… then you can slowly, sincere ask them, “hey that doesn’t make sense, what about this” continue sincere – then finally this person will go – wow this person knows more about myself than I do!
Once you are empty to feel them directly and can from a deep way analyse them from so many angles, then they realise you are sincere.
One possibility is that magic can happen.
They become open heart with you, you can guide them too out of their own blindness and suffering.
That is one of these convenient-wisdom-abilities that can open through listening with sincere heart.
You can learn about life through communicating differently – because your sincere heart gets deeper – and because you go deeper there is less ego – no possessive – purify yourself – to reach empty.
This system is in the Surangama Sutra
Buddha asked 25 high-level Buddha and Bodhisattva for their techniques on how they reach meditation, no-I, empty, completely free and aware of everything.
So they offer their amazing,training systems.
Then Buddha asks another high-level consciousness, called Dragon Buddha:
“Which of these systems at this time would be suitable for humans?”
Dragon Buddha appears as a Bodhisattva to help new Buddha. He is also called Greatest Wisdom Bodhisattva.
His will is to support newly enlightened Buddha by appearing as a monk or high-level Bodhisattva to help teach.
Really Buddha already knows he is a Buddha level himself, but other students don’t know, they always surprised why he say things as sharp as Buddha.
“What is your opinion of these 25?”
So he explains each one. Which are good and bad for Earth. And for humans.
“Observation through listening is the best, highest, fastest way for humans. They don’t know how to use listening correctly, but they can learn to purify themselves to such a high level. Make other people open heart, talk much sharper and deeper, more sincere, truly listen, then more people open heart for you and your heart get bigger. If your heart is only what you are looking for, it become smaller, if you heart truly open heart for many more people it gets bigger, away from your own greed, and loneliness, caring for a lot of people through showing sincere heart, make them open heart to you to. You aware their heart, their lifestyle what is going on.”
Another student asks a question about how do I know when I’m empty free from ego to listen to their position and make a judgement or whether I’m still in my ego?
You create an ego during your regular time and then use that ego to judge.
You can practice your listening right now.
Observe from many angles:
- Clothes
- Job
- Character
- Body language
- Tone of voice
- Words
- Relationships
From a talk given by Forever Wisdom Forest
