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Jai Mai, dear friends,

I have been thinking of our teacher and the way my listening has changed. Listening to Acharya Shunya; deep listening and contemplation that she teaches is an attunement, an upgrade to the nervous system. I ask, “What are you allowing in, allowing yourself to feel, things you have always known and felt but weren’t allow to know and feel?" You feel like a misfit, a rebel, but the connection with animals, the forest, the wind and Acharya Shunya -they get you. It’s a listening at the soul level, and you feel that you’re not too sensitive or too imaginative. It is real, it is true. You just know that you have landed in the right place.

Listening to any of the teachings of our teacher lifts your heart and lends you resilience. And I know my way of listening has change. These days, more than ever, we need places to put our attention, that bring us hope and help us feel more fully the possibility of our unified field. Like when we’re in nature, deeply listening; the wind in the trees, the leaves falling, the movement of water; being still, stepping into the silence beneath it and receiving what it is gifting.  It is allowing these types of connections to affect you and bring you the closeness and intimacy that immerse us into the deep intentions of this community and attunement to Self.

Listening, acceptance of “what is” like this, is calming and an authentic way of sharing. Our world is overwhelmed by so much digital static, political clamor and the constant hum of anxiety and relief comes by listening deeply. We need more listening to one another, to the environment and even more on a personal, interior level with full intention. Deep listening extends beyond sound, embracing intuition, it is a calming and authentic way of sharing within and with others. When we look into the eyes of a dog, a horse or a bird, we are looking into their soul. There is so much that is beyond words and language. It is a feeling, a knowing beyond word, beyond language, the connection of oneness that we experience.  The sound of embracing this connection is silence. It is simply there and with it comes gratitude and a devotion to silence.