Listening to the Song - Part 2 (2017-03-01)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 4 March 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Listening to the Song - Part 2 (2017-03-01) - Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. As we learn to listen inwardly, we begin to understand and care for the life that is here. And as we listen to others, that same intimacy emerges. In this two-part series we examine the blocks to listening and the practices that cultivate this essential domain of human potential. Our focus is both on the transformational power of listening in our personal lives, and also the necessity for deep listening if we are to bring healing to our wider society.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. |
| 0:06.6 | We offer these podcasts freely and your support really matters. |
| 0:12.4 | To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. |
| 0:15.9 | Namaste and welcome. |
| 0:32.8 | A minister told a story that I liked of who's giving us sermon and there were two teenage |
| 0:39.1 | girls in the back kind of giggling and goofing around. |
| 0:42.8 | So he decided to do something about it so he kind of in a stern voice said there are |
| 0:47.6 | two of you here who haven't heard of word I've said and that quieted them down. |
| 0:53.6 | And then at the end of the service, who was out greeting people and there were three or |
| 0:58.8 | four adults that came up to him and said, I'm so sorry I wasn't listening. |
| 1:03.2 | And I'm sorry I've fallen asleep and I promised never to do it again. |
| 1:09.6 | And it shines a light for all of us. |
| 1:11.2 | I mean we all know how much our minds wander off and how often we really aren't listening. |
| 1:18.9 | And so tonight is our second in a two part series on really what I've would have described |
| 1:26.1 | as listening to the song or that kind of deep listening that listens even behind the |
| 1:31.7 | words to the life and the truth that's here in the moment in ourselves and in each other. |
| 1:40.7 | And I've been thinking that you know for the next year or two years or whatever our |
| 1:48.2 | whole path was let me deepen that listening attention. |
| 1:54.1 | Let me really listen to what's true inside me. |
| 1:57.1 | Let me really listen to those in my circle and let me listen to those that seem different |
| 2:03.1 | and that I don't agree with. |
| 2:05.2 | Deep listening. |
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