A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Today, can you practice listening without assuming you know what the other person is saying and why? Leave room to understand. When you approach any situation with the mind of not knowing, there is love.
In an excerpt from Seeds for a Boundless Life, Zenkei Blanche Hartman, who was a senior Soto Zen teacher at San Francisco Zen Center, discusses the value of beginner’s mind and not-knowing.
In this four-part Dharma Talk, Zen scholar and teacher Cuong Lu explains how compassionate listening can break down the barrier between yourself and others.
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