What is Meditative Listening?

Do you feel a profound, intuitive commitment to the life of empathy?

Is the experience of entering into the feelings of others something that lies at the very centre of the path of your life?

Have you found that the act of listening to others enlarges your spirit,just as profoundly as it is enlarged when somebody listens to you?

Today, there are many ways to approach the inner life of feelings and the life of human relationships – many psychological methods, many spiritual paths. And we have been wondering:

What is common to all paths and methods?

Is it not empathy?

We shall set out to listen empathically, to hear what your experience of empathy has been, to touch the central stream of feeling in ourselves and in one another.

Is there anything more important in human life than empathy?
Is anything more urgently needed at this (or any) time?

In Meditative Listening, empathy is everything.
We put our trust in the power of pure empathy. Consequently, as in art, literature or music, we
are always at the beginning.

Meditative Listening is simple.
You will understand it easily.
It is also very deep. One never comes to the end of empathy.

For what is not a new beginning is merely a repetition of the past.