The Art of Listening

The art of listening: 

I fell in love with mantra meditation due to its ease and the emphasis on relaxing to the sounds of a personal vibration, that no real effort is put forth, it's not a practice of concentration, nor the means of reaching specific states that are beyond our present nature. It's the art of listening, of accepting ourselves as we are right now, and with this we descend deeply beneath the currents of the mind, watchful, aware, being witness to life's motion until even this is let go and there is only the joy of simply being. 

and all this happens on its own.

again, it's the art of listening, returning always to the vibration of a primordial sound that echos through the soul. With this I don't mean a personal soul, but collective, universal in its inclusion. The mantra is a unique and distinct vibration, a word without true meaning other than its sound, and it unfolds within us a subtle thought, a faint impression that carries us to deeper levels of reality, quieter, quieter, and ever more quiet still...and then there's only listening. 

alone. 

with nothing found separate from the play of sounds and vibrations, seamless, life in chorus to itself.

a joyful art of being. 

listening. 

and the realization that this is always so. 

~

Peace, Eric