Author: ratnadyer

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” – Ram Dass

Learning to listen is also about learning to let go of the noise of our own thinking.

All ideas are simply movements of thought in the mind. They come, they go, they change all the time.
Yes we need to understand and use facts and analytical thinking to help us function and communicate in life. However, finding wisdom is a much vaster endeavour than simply assimilating intellectual information.

Wisdom is found only when we learn to observe and release our identified attachment to our thinking.
Wisdom comes when we recognise ourselves beyond our mind; as consciousness conscious of itself. It comes when our inner silent knowing presence is enough. When we rest in this, we relax about being right, being so much the one in control or needing to prove anything.

That’s why wise people often have less to say, less need to make their point, and will be less likely to argue or create conflict. For what? In wisdom there’s no personal self left to benefit.

When we let go what do we let go into?.. the compassionate embrace of awareness.

I might add, in light of watching some footage of the flooding in Nelson right now, the universe can seem anything but compassionate!!! Within the physical laws we live through, there is no mercy, just reality 😮
Compassion however, IS there, in the formless realm. In the relationship and energy of allowing and loving ourselves through our experiences. We are this loving embrace. We are consciousness and consciousness can always expand in compassion.

May these devastating events bring our compassion and right action toward each other forward.

If you want to gain more confidence, start by being more patient and kind with yourself.
Confidence is not about always getting things right. It’s a willingness and knowing that you’re going to be ok and worthy along with any mistakes.

Include awareness of your presence doing the listening and the seeing and sensing. Your consciousness is here prior.

A lot of mindfulness practices are designed in such a way as to reflect to us our attachments and aversions; what we try to hold onto and what we try to avoid.
The notion is, that when we are driven, consciously or unconsciously by our grasping or aversion, we are constantly at the mercy of external circumstances. Trying to get things and experiences that make us feel good or avoid ones that don’t.

With inner freedom, our happiness comes from a deeper place; the seat of our self, rather than what we might gain or lose around it.

When we listen and follow more of our integrity, our inner knowing, higher conscience and sense of rightness and truth, there is little choice.
When we surrender within this, we generate a clarity of inner guidance and direction.
We can free ourselves from mental conflict and can open more to the space and joy beyond mind.

When we can recognise each other and connect on the level deeper than thoughts and ideas, there we find sameness within the differences.

We all have the same human heart. We all have needs, fears, challenges and desires.
At the core we are not different. We are consciousness in form. We are heart. We are awareness. Before all opinions even exist.

Sometimes we don’t like our experience. And that’s ok. We don’t have to. We don’t have to impose something that in that moment is not true to our experience.

But we can move from there toward opening and releasing; have a grumble or a cry to help our emotional energy be expressed in a healthy way and to move itself through. This is when gratitude might become more available to us again.

If we just condemn ourselves further for being too negative or ungrateful, we just dig the state deeper. We entrench ourselves in our funk. We give it power by opposing it.

If we feel crappy, we feel crappy. It’s already there, so allow it, be honest about it, then move it with expression and compassion and then in a bit of time we can recognise ourselves in the space beyond it.

We can also add another layer.. by recognising our relationship with our experiences and seeing that we can have gratitude in that we have space and are free and safe enough to feel however we are feeling in any moment of time, good or bad.

We have to let the breath out before we can receive a breath in again.