2. How good do you think your capability at listening to others?
Importance of listening – what are the bad habits in listening?
A vessel might have the following three faults
Introduce the vessel – analogy:
3. 1. A vessel being upside down
◦ Not go inside (cannot be filled)
◦ Do not pay attention
◦ What are we thinking when others are
talking?
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TeOGJP5vGA
Bad listeners
4. 2. Though held right side up, being
dirty/contaminated
◦ Go inside, but be unable to fulfil its function - cannot be drunk,
because it is contaminated by filth
◦ Though paying attention, misunderstand what is heard or listen with
a bad motivation such as attachment
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne0Z_fwIXw4 Milo
Can you see any different perception lurking in your mind?
5. 3. Though clean, having a leaky bottom
◦ Not be polluted by filth, yet not remain inside and drain away
◦ Though lacking the last two faults, do not solidify the words and
meanings taken in at the time of hearing but let them fade due
to forgetting them and so forth.
How much can you remember from the last class?
7. ◦ Concentration
◦ Staying one-pointed, attentive,
with your mind focused
1. Remedies - A vessel being upside down
8. 2. Remedies - being dirty/contaminated
◦ Listen while wanting to understand everything
Tips:
◦ Did you Interrupt in the middle of a
conversation?
◦ Do you think you know better than the people
you are talking to? And you really want to
correct them?
9. 3. Remedies - leaky bottom
◦ Hold it in mind
◦ Reflecting with complete
composure.
10. Your turn now ~
◦Observe what you have been doing while
listening to others; are you in the three faults?
◦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA-RaDNVKpw Good example of Actually listen
11. ◦ Internet source:
◦ http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-purified-water.htm#glass-of-dirty-water
◦ http://www.masterfile.com/stock-photography/image/676-02367840/Hand-pouring-
water-from-a-glass-into-a-leaking-pail
Editor's Notes
K.
Why do we introduce listening here? What does it matter in study?
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Link back to LR: Why do we need to abandon these three faults? We are like a person born of noble lineage, although possessing intelligence, we still don’t know until told what is virtuous and what is not. (ENG LR P.56) While we are studying, listening takes an essential part. But it is not only a benefit to study, it is also a useful technique in daily life. In fact, Buddhism philosophy is about nothing but life.
