Mark Epstein Quotes
When I Taught The Meditation On Sound To The Participants At My Weekend Workshop And Had People Open To The Ringing Of Their Cell Phones, I Was Trying To Introduce Them To His Method. By Listening Meditatively, We Were Changing The Way We Listen, Pulling Ourselves Out Of Our Usual Orientation To The World Based On Our Likes And Dislikes. Rather Than Trying To Figure Out What Was Going On Around Us, Resisting The Unpleasant Noises And Gravitating Toward The Mellifluous Ones, We Were Listening In A Simpler And More Open Manner. We Had To Find And Establish Another Point Of Reference To Listen In This Way, One That Was Outside The Ego's Usual Territory Of Control. You Might Say We Were Simply Listening, But It Was Actually More Complex Than That. While Listening, We Were Also Aware Of Ourselves Listening, And At The Same Time We Were Conscious Of What The Listening Evoked Within. Unhooked From Our Usual Preoccupations, We Were Listening From A Neutral Place.
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