Just passing through . . .

[Guest guest]

> To carry on what Lobster sated, if possible: As with all things we

encounter

> daily in life, and this goes for emails too, we have to learn to listen

> without reaction (most difficult at times). However, learning to listen is

> not possible without trust. And, without trust we are always on our guard;

> we have barriers of self-protection that defends us from what we cannot

> control. Listening is a state of openness, and the more we are open the

more

> we are able to hear. And because spiritual listening is done with the ear

of

> the heart as well as with our physical ears, the heart has to be open.

> Listening to the teacher (whatever or whoever that is for the individual)

> requires a degree of vulnerability in which we lay down our defenses, we

> abandon our patterns of censorship. Listening to what we call God means

> being totally open and surrendered... otherwise we will obscure God's hint

> with our own little self and miss out on the teaching.

>

> Love, Robert

 

 

Hi Robert thanks for that,

Perhaps this is useful:

Trust is based on an idea that what we hear

can hurt us or damage us in some way.

Which of course it can if it stays with us . . .

This is why in some ways, some sages suggest

the importance of moving into a condition

of transparency.

Here there is nothing for the input to

settle on. It is just passing through . . .

You will notice in the post from/about Mother Teresea

that transperancy is used in the different sense

of 'honesty'.

The transparent sage is more akin to a state of

lessened ego or fluidity where no condition of

certainty or no obstacle to the movement of

thoughts and feelings exist . . .

 

> Thanks for sharing your thoughts Robert. We welcome Lobster (our old

friend

> Ed Jason).

>

> Love to all

> Harsha

 

 

:-)

Lobster