Listen

In the Chinese pictogram, the word listen is composed of three different characters (pictograms) – eye, heart and ear.

True listening is not merely using ears to here, but observing with eyes and keeping open the heart. Only when one listens in this manner a real change is possible in oneself

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Emotional disposition plays an important role in understanding. Without it every thing we hear and see will remain knowledge and information and they are powerless in bringing transformation in oneself.

Quantum physicist knows exactly what a mystic understands. But the mystic lives entirely in a different realm of existence, where as the physicist lives exactly like you and me.

We too can become a mystic provided we add two more steps along with hearing in our act of listening – keen observation and open heart. The problem in doing this is that we will become incapable of judging and gossiping about others, so we may end up sacrificing lot more fun in our life and start loving people and that is not much of a fun..

Children Vs. Adults

Children know the secret of handling any forthcoming disaster. They think about crossing the bridge only when they reach it. They do not sweat over and rudiment unnecessarily over the unavoidable problems and tragedies of life. No planning, no scheming, they just react. Just before the event of pain, they feel sad and shout and scream, even five minutes before they can laugh and enjoy the moment, it is all fun but for few moments of suffering.

Where as the grown ups, undergo tremendous amount of mental agony just thinking about the problem which will occur one year later. Those few moments of suffering and pain is lived for the entire year, we extent the period of suffering as long as possible. We imagine, grumble and curse thus transform any small negative event into a tragedy of the century.

As children our strategy of encountering problems was straight forward, simple and effective. We never allowed it to spill over into the realm of fun and joy. As grownups, we indulge in too much of planning and have become the schemers, and made life as miserable as possible.

Children’s style of facing the happy events is just opposite to their strategy of facing painful events. In case of joyful events, they anticipate and wait eagerly for it, thus they extent the joy and happiness and stretch it as long as possible. And the grownups rarely extent the happy moments, they think being happy is childish and being miserable is the sign of maturity.