Listening
Dear Students,
The attached excerpts from an article by J. Krishnamurti may
be of interest to some of you. If we are able to follow his suggestions,
it may help us when we attend classes, attempt to answer questions after
seminars, and even in day to day matters.
With best wishes,
K. Kesava Rao
Chairman, ChE
Listening
I do not know if you have ever examined how you listen, it does not matter
to what, whether to a bird, to the wind in the leaves, to the rushing
waters, or how you listen in a dialogue with yourself, to your
conversations with friends.
If we try to listen, we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are
always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background,
our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate we hardly listen at all
to what is being said.
In that state, there is no value at all. One listens and therefore learns,
only in a state of attention, a state of silence, in which the whole
background is in abeyance, is quiet; then, it seems to me it is possible
to communicate. Real communication can take place when there is silence.
J. Krishanmurti
