How does Joe Blow experience reality? How do you experience reality?
(As short, sweet and simple as you can manage, as I tend to get easily lost.) --- In [email protected], Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: > Communication is very difficult. One may recognize the unity of all down to the last stretch of activated genomic material, and yet still may not pick up the fact that the words mean, "that pencil there on the left, not the pencil in your hand!". One may sit in the forest, merging compassionately with the squirrels and the ants and the brook and the wind, for long stretches of time, and still find it painful to admit that some habitual sloppiness you indulge yourself with has harmed some one you love. Even as you see it with clear awareness in silence, moving that awareness through the untold systems of unawareness that separate silent witnessing from right speech into some form of out-loud apology that is a practical and effective action to maintain the mutual awareness of lack of separation between the speaker and the offended person, is non-trivial, is a whole increase of practise, a taking of the insights of practise and dragging them through totally different brain areas. Self mastery in sitting and in listening is only the beginning of living in awareness of inter-connectedness. To be not two in a rich web of connectedness requires still more attention and practise! >> Steve, >> >> I don't get it. >> >> --ED >> Hi ED. Well, there is communication and there is communication. Communication can be regarded as simply the exchange of verbal information, but that isn't what I am referring to. What we say to others, either face to face or over the phone, is so much more than > the words themselves. Face to face we convey so much by expression, body language, tone and inflection. Even on the telephone, our tone of voice and inflection convey volumes. IMO, real communication relies on feeling connected, on a deep level, with the people we are trying to communicate with. The more strongly we identify with being an ego walled-off by various boundary-lines from other egos, the more difficulty we will have in connecting with others. The more we are ablw to see through the imaginary boundary-lines to our shared Buddha-Dhatu, the more will be able to feel deep bonds of sympathy with others, which will naturally facilitate empathetic communication. IMO. > Steve
