In a group there's always the listening and it.
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There's worrying about the chanting or trying to figure it out,
Just letting it happen and just sounds and just enough attention to look at the words,
But it is more important to listen to the sounds and after a while you just get into it and forget a few words or can't quite make it end the line or.
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But basically that isn't the issue.
The issue is just to flow along and let go of the self-consciousness or the trying to get it right or thinking about it too much.
There's the sound,
There's the resonance in the body,
There's the sound,
There's the listening and it's very.
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The listening actually adjusts one's voice until most of the voices begin to merge.
So natural human faculty we have for harmony when we listen.
There's a lot in that because listening to chanting is a good preparation and then listening to one's self,
Listening to the listening through the sound of silence or the listening to the listening.
What is it that listens?
How is that experienced?
So we're turning consciousness around through the ear base and all we consciousness is both receptive,
Receiving and then producing through consciousness,
Producing what's the next thing to do?
How am I doing?
This is the mental consciousness.
How am I doing?
What's the next thing?
What's this mean?
How good am I at it?
Perhaps I'm not that,
Nor that.
And so we turn it around to from that overactive state to something that's more receptive.
Doesn't matter.
So opening up the receptive,
The listening base of consciousness.
Opening consciousness through the listening door.
And as you recognize there's a lot more to listening than just the ears.
There's certain receptivity of heart,
Open attention,
Even sympathy.
Like you're listening to someone else,
Sympathetic listening is not just a fact-finding mission.
But what's the resonance here?
This is the natural basis of seeking harmony.
Again,
Seeking is a natural inclination.
So don't try to seek harmony.
Just acknowledge that in the act of listening,
The quality of listening is already a sense of if it's not compressed with fact-finding,
Performance and so forth,
It is naturally sympathetic.
This is the nature of human consciousness.
It is sympathetic.
It's the citta is at the heart of consciousness and its nature is sympathetic,
Which means it resonates,
It picks up,
It receives.
There's a quality of anukampa like a trembling along with.
How is this?
This is a natural faculty.
So you know,
With that primal sympathy,
That primal harmony,
It's certainly not trying to make things smooth or even it out or wonder what to do about it or make it better.
It's much more primary than that.
It's the deep connected resonance.
How is it to be with this?
This already is kindness.
This is,
You know,
The first,
The base of kindness,
The base of goodwill,
The primal sympathy.
How is it?
Just imagine asking another that question.
How is it?
That's,
We'd call that kindness,
Wouldn't we?
Not give me a blow-by-blow account of everything you've done in the last three days or where you're like analysis,
But just how is this?
So coming through the ear door,
The listening door,
And widening the sense of listening to include sensing.
What is sensing,
I mean sensing much more broadly,
Sensing the experience of a body,
How we know we have a body,
Certain tingles or pressures,
Nothing,
Not trying to etch in the anatomical picture of the body.
Just forget that for now.
This body as the body consciousness,
Certain resonances,
Flushes,
Tingles,
Pressures,
That,
You know,
That's coming from your body.
You don't need to know where,
But essentially it's like a sympathetic,
Like we're around that,
Beside that,
Gathering around that,
Not going into it.
But in that quality of deep holistic listening,
Noticing of course these certain trembles come up,
Samkhara,
The,
What's the result,
The searching for a name or a purpose or a result.
Knowing whether one's doing it right,
Looking for rights and wrongs,
A certain sense of supposed to do this now,
Obligation,
Pressures.
Notice that and widen and deepen the listening,
The attention beyond any conceivable aim,
Purpose,
Result.
It's because this is the basis of citta,
Mind consciousness,
Just pure,
Pure aware.
Don't take too much out of pure either.
It's just,
It's just a,
You know,
It's not.
It's just this simplicity to it.
This is the basis of citta.
It's got a sympathetic,
Empathetic quality,
Has it?
So when one is deeply listening and there's a putting aside of aim,
Obligation,
Achievement,
Getting it right,
How else can one listen if we're not listening with those intentions?
How else is the listening,
The consciousness turned?
Except with some fundamental inclination to be present,
To embrace,
To be with this.
That's primary sympathy.
Or we can say it's the opposite of primary aversion,
Which is I can't,
I don't want to,
Why do I have to?
There must be something better than this.
The fundamental dissonance.
And we're not really this time measuring the object,
It's the measureless citta,
Doesn't do measuring.
It doesn't have to be something worthy or significant or vital or,
You know,
Brilliant.
Nature of the object in this is not,
Not the pivot.
The pivot of it is to sustain listening and release the other programs.
Yeah.
That's life.
Yeah.
Around awareness,
Receptivity,
How is body,
How is any experience that we call of the bodily domain?
Cool,
Warm,
Vibrant,
Stagnant,
Flat,
Rising,
Passing,
Falling,
Heavy,
Light,
Tense,
Loose,
These textures,
So space,
The absence of pressure,
Any degree of diminution of pressure,
More space,
Little more spacious,
Less spacious,
The flow between the earth element,
The firm,
Compacted to the space element,
How does that sense?
The changes,
The sense of awareness of the change and the specific quality from as it's changing,
Specific qualities,
How in a way it's like a river,
Has a certain seeming continuity but actually everything is constantly changing and because of that specific quality of how it changes it has a kind of beauty to it.
Take it out of the person box as an ongoing process of phenomena.
It is SUPEREON 2 now.
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And just giving it the permission,
Handing it over.
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