The task would therefore be about conscious listening, then getting into the question or the same space as the person speaking and then responding if needed. Main work would be to be aware when Im being pulled outside or into associations.
"To begin with, if I am in the position of transmitter, a change is needed in my state. If I am searching for a more active attention, freer to listen, freer from associations connected with and my reactions to what I hear, there could be a greater freedom to explore the question with the questioner—to go into it more deeply with him, without being caught in it from outside, as it were. If my attention is more actively engaged there could be a participation in the whole exchange that would permit the exchange to flow in two directions, and activate the ‘hearer’ in both the giver and the receiver."
"If I experience a change in my own state at that moment, if I am aware of my being pulled to the outside while seeing it, my interest in exchanging, for instance, about the power of sleep or the weakness of attention, become acute. By exchanging about this I can strengthen my own experience. If I am pulled into my words about it I leave the experience and begin to lie. This is the process of sleep and the struggle to awaken."
A daily alarm at 4 pm and and end of the day stock take will allow me to watch my progress in training myself and to then teach this to others.
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