"Listening" "The teaching word is for listening and it reveals the Way" "...at the beginning, in the listening stages of the Way of the Heart, it is a form of pondering that serves self-observation" "So the listening process is a process and it has stages and you can't really understand the later stages until you have fulfilled the earlier stages."   Listening "To practice fruitfully, therefore, there must be self-understanding. Self-understanding is fundamental to the practice of the Way of the Heart from the beginning. That is why the practice is called "listening" from the beginning. It is real "consideration", from the beginning." Religious Realism - Perpetual "reality consideration" "...the first level of our Way, which involves listening to the point of hearing, is so profound. It calls you to confront my Argument and to consider it all together, with every aspect of the personality, in the emotional domain." Your Hidden Destiny "The process of listening whereby you allow the ego to be identified with the body mind is not merely some interior drama. It's just the first step in a process in which you find out the 'I' . You find out the ego. The whole process of becoming 'I' in the body is to discover the ego and understand it and transcend it." Beyond the Koan "So the listening process is a process and it has stages and you can't really understand the later stages until you have fulfilled the earlier stages. So that Chapter 19 (The Dawn Horse Testament) is a condensation, an elaboration of all of the sequences of the listening process." Beyond the Koan "Self-contraction covers all of the opposites, includes them all. So this is the first test you must come to in the process of listening. Then you become more sensitized with the wide variety of operations of yourself in relationship from moment to moment. The body is a contraction from the point of view of consciousness. It is a difference. It's made of the same energy of which all other forms are made. It is a universal force but it's displayed through differences, separate apparent individuals, separate bodies." Beyond the Koan "You're used to experiencing your self-contraction as an experience rather than as your own action. So you have some feeling about what I'm talking about when I'm talking about the self-contraction, because it's that knot in the pit of your stomach or that feeling of anxiety. You don't realize it's you pinching yourself, you doing that feeling of anxiety, you contracting. You may, in the course of the listening sadhana, get a little better at it all, you know, understand it a little better, but ultimately to understand most fundamentally and to be free of all the wanderings and vacations and so forth and effects of self-contraction, to notice, to feel, and be in the position of the act itself, coincides with the feeling of relatedness itself,they are coincidental,and the arising of attention." The Knot of Self-Contraction "The ability to stand in the position in which the self-contraction is generated is served in the initial phase of the listening process." Observe Yourself in Toto "Those who are simply listening to the Teaching, who have not entered into this conversion in the Company of the Spiritual Master, may as part of the natural discipline of listening assume the various practical conditions associated with the practice of this Way, but even so they are not yet practicing the Way. They are listening or giving their attention to the possibility of practice. When there is full conversion, or "hearing" and "seeing" to the point of real practice, then real preparation for the ultimate form of the Way begins—and not until then." Birthday Message from Jesus and Me "Those who Awaken in my Company then know how to use me. They understand why I am here. Others who are still listening, who have not passed through this remarkable conversion or matter into energy, or egoity into Spirit-living, appropriately maintain a relatively distant or formal relationship to me, although they give me their attention. And their granting of attention to me bears the fruit of conversion when they thoroughly intuit and feel that all that arises is Spirit or Energy." Birthday Message from Jesus and Me "Attending to My Argument is called the listening process, but you are seeking instead. You are not presently listening to My Argument, then, are you? You are not listening to Me, not examining yourself according to My Word and fashioning your practice on the basis of this "consideration". Instead, you are carrying on with your oblivious search nonsense and pretending that that is the practice." Religious Realism - Perpetual "reality consideration" "The process of listening to Me, that process in which you must locate the self-contraction itself." Religious Realism - Perpetual "reality consideration" Chapter 2 The Study of The Knee of Listening - Table of Contents

Beezone Articles ------ Adi Da Articles ------ Tradition Articles ------ Adi Da Books Online------ Adi Da Audio Online------ Intro------ About------ News----- Contact------ Home "The perfect among the sages is identical with Me. There is absolutely no difference between us" Tripura Rahasya, Chap XX, 128-133 All copyright materials are used under authority of the Fair Use statute. (United State Code, Title 17) (Fair Use)