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ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
Monthly updates on retreats, various community
projects, and special events. This newsletter will
also include information on how Learning To Listen is
growing; and will make known our needs of specialized personnel
as our needs grow. We
will also do our best to help keep you informed about other community
events that may be of interest. If you are looking
for a 'practice home' that includes the San Francisco Bay
Area and also much of the North American West Coast mindfulness
community, we
hope that you find LTL a place where you can land, can rest,
and can grow.
"What
is important is to discover listening itself, which sooner or
later will be revealed to you. At first the accent is on
what is listened to, the sensation, feeling or thought. But
the more the listening is sustained the more the emphasis is
shifted to this listening itself without a listened to. Then
you are at the threshold of the source from which the listening
derives. That very instant listening will become a living
reality.
When
hearing something take note that you fix the sound. Let
it go. There must be no concentration. In this non-directed
hearing, this multidimensional hearing, many sounds will be
heard in succession. Without your choosing or showing preference
for any particular noise, you may observe that they are eliminated
until only one sound remains. If you do not focus on this
sound it also dies away and you find yourself in pure listening...
in the end, it (pure listening) reabsorbs itself completely
into pure awareness."
—Jean
Klein, from I AM
