January 1
Listen with ease
Have you ever sat very
silently, not with your attention fixed on anything, not making an effort to concentrate, but
with the mind very quiet, really still? Then you hear everything,
don’t you? You hear the
far off noises as well as those that are nearer and those that are
very close by, the
immediate sounds—which means really that you are listening to
everything. Your mind is
not confined to one narrow little channel. If you can listen in
this way, listen with
ease, without strain, you will find an extraordinary change taking
place within you, a change
which comes without your volition, without your asking; and
in that change there is
great beauty and depth of insight.
January 2
Putting aside
screens?
How do you listen? Do you
listen with your projections, through your projection, through
your ambitions, desires,
fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear,
