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🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Listening to the Song - Part 1 (2019-11-13) - Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets blocked and the teachings and practices that help us cultivate the gift of a deep and healing listening presence.
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| 0:15.9 | Namaste and welcome. |
| 0:29.0 | We look to begin with a story a couple had two young boys, age six and eight, and they |
| 0:36.0 | were real tears in the sense that they never listened to anything their parents said, |
| 0:42.0 | and they wreaked havoc all the time, and the parents finally threw up their arms in |
| 0:45.7 | dismay and decided that they would get in touch with a clergyman in town who had a reputation |
| 0:52.0 | of having a strong and steady hand with young people who weren't really listening to their |
| 0:57.3 | parents. |
| 0:58.6 | So he agreed to speak with the boys, but he said on the one rule was he wanted to speak |
| 1:03.4 | with them individually. |
| 1:05.0 | So the eight-year-old went first and the clergyman sat him down in front of him and he asked |
| 1:10.4 | him very sternly, where is God? |
| 1:15.1 | And the boy didn't make a response. |
| 1:16.6 | So the pastor raised his voice and said even more sternly, where is God? |
| 1:24.0 | And again, the boy didn't know what to say. |
| 1:28.7 | So even louder now with this finger in the boy's face, where is God? |
| 1:35.2 | At that point, the boy bolted from the room, ran directly home, slammed the door, locked |
| 1:41.3 | him in the cell from the closet. |
| 1:43.0 | His older brother follows him and says, well, what happened? |
| 1:46.7 | And the younger brother said, we're in big trouble this time. |
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