Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: I've got lots more things to talk about, but is there anything
that you came today wanting to share with us?
PETER FENNER: What we're sharing, this is beautiful for me,
right on.
TRIP: All right, well then let's just keep on going. This is real
meditation for us. The Buddha said, "Don't keep searching for the
Truth, just let go of your opinions", I really liked that, that was a
nice one that you had in your book. But one of the things that
really appeals to me and that I think you do in a beautiful way, in a
way that I maybe haven't ever encountered before is this pure
listening that you do.
PETER FENNER: Yes.
TRIP: That is a powerful, powerful thing that you do, because
when you are listening to someone they get the feeling that they
have your absolute attention, and that they're not being judged by
you. So you create this space of incredible intimacy between
yourself and the person that you're listening to, and I think if
people could master that I think that their relationships would go
off the chart. I mean, I know that mine would with my significant
other, if I gave her that attention in my listening, she'd be just
thrilled. Can you talk about that?
PETER FENNER: Yes, for sure. Because often, for example, in
the Radiant Mind book and the Radiant Mind course, it's a ninemonth
course, so there are a lot of things happening in it, and
people will often say, well is there one thing that you can point me
to that would be really helpful. And I always come back to pure
listening, because pure listening is something that everyone can
do, it's not a particularly difficult or tricky process or way of
listening. And what I do hear is I just distinguish between positive
listening, negative listening, and pure listening. It's really quite
simple.
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