A Listening Presence - Three Domains of Training

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🗓️ 17 November 2010

⏱️ 49 minutes

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2010-11-17 - A Listening Presence - Three Domains of Training - Cultivating the capacity for listening is essential to loving well and to realizing the truth of who we are. This talk focuses on three key facets of deep listening--non-distractedness, not-controlling and seeking to understand-- that can awaken an intimacy with our inner life and others. Guided meditations on listening precede and are included within the body of the talk. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Thank you!

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0:00.0	How many of you think you know what tonight's talk is on?
0:19.0	Can I just get a cure?
0:21.0	Can I see my hands?
0:23.0	Just cure it.
0:25.0	Ah, so you weren't listening to the meditation?
0:29.0	It's on listening.
0:31.0	I'd give it away.
0:33.0	So when we reflect on our life moments,
0:37.0	and if we reflect on the ones that felt special,
0:41.0	or meaningful, or particularly happy, or poignant,
0:46.0	and if we asked ourselves, you know, what made that possible?
0:50.0	And we really reflect it was because in some way we were available.
0:55.0	We were there for it.
0:58.0	Otherwise, it's impossible that it would have that aliveness.
1:02.0	The common denominator of moments that are meaningful and poignant
1:07.0	are a quality of attention of presence.
1:12.0	We're not preoccupied.
1:14.0	Does that make sense?
1:15.0	It's like our attention's not preoccupied.
1:17.0	So we're there for it.
1:19.0	And science agrees some of you might have seen in the New York Times
1:24.0	this Harvard-based study.
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