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How do you listen?

When we hear a Dharma talk or study a sutra, our only job is to remain open. Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. If we read or listen with an open mind and an open heart, the rain of the Dharma will penetrate the soil of our consciousness.

While reading or listening, don't work too hard. Be like the earth. When the rain comes, the earth only has to open herself up to the rain. Allow the rain of the Dharma to come in and penetrate the seeds that are buried deep in your consciousness. A teacher cannot give you the truth. The truth is already in you. You only need to open yourself - body, mind, and heart - so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment. if you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work.

From the book "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching"

By Thich Nhat Hanh

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Body Never Lies - By Alice Miller

I read this book before my second child was born.
Before I discovered meditation and many other things.

I did not like this book.

I felt that Alice was taking too much of a personal stand or view point.
Alice often quotes the "Fourth Commandment" Honor your Father and Mother.
I'm not a Christan or religious person (I feel I'm spiritual) so for me this is the first I'd really looked at it.

In this book Alice looks at when the parents do not honor the child and are very abusive in many different ways.
For me I don't feel that its religious or some 'law' which has been thought up.
But more deep.
Its a need to feel love from someone who should love you more than anything else in the world.
I think its a primal thing, in built.

This book is going to be revisited again by me and looked at from a more calm point of view.
I feel I might get more out of it the second time round.

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