OSHO: Intellectual Listening is a Kind of Deafness

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Intellectual Listening Is a Kind of Deafness
If you listen to me
as an intellectual
miss you,
not something, but everything.
Intellectual listening
is a kind of deafness.
When I say something,
you can listen to the word.
You have
a mind,
a library in your mind
of all your prejudices,
philosophies,
and ideologies.
The word must
through all that
presupposed
patterns,
and by the time it reaches you
it is no longer the same.
It is
changed so often,
through the whole process
of intellectual listening,
that the end result
something completely different.
And yet it seems rational
to be right;
it fits in your mind.
The process of listening has succeeded in cutting here and there,
to change here and there,
here and there to color,
to make it
what you want it to be,
not what it is.
And you will agree with it;
it’s your own idea,
it has nothing to do with me.
Intellectual listening is not listening at all.
It is a way to avoid.
The right way is
that you leave your mind out of it
and me
in your most important are within late
without being hindered.
Then there will be
a concept.
Then there will be
to be a contact,
a real one
listen,
because in the process of listening itself,
you yourself have changed.
Now the agreement that arises in you arises
do not agree with your mind,
it corresponds
with something new,
of which you mind
nothing knows.
The mind is always old,
and the truth is always new;
they never meet,
they never exist together.
You are lucky
that you
to listen in the right way
putting the mind aside,
just me
allow
deeper and deeper into you.
Even then become
words used,
silence has been transmitted.
Even if words are used,
what can not be said
has been said – is at least heard.
And saying is not important,
hearing is important.
Good listening means you will never ask
how to do something.
For example, if I do
talk about silence
and you listen in the right way,
you will never ask
how to be quiet
because you’re listening by yourself
tasted it.
You will listen
having experienced it
and the window is open.
The people who listen intellectually
have to ask later how it should be done.
Their question about how it should be done
means
that they have missed
what was transferred to them.
It is not just words that I tell you
I bring my heart to you.
The words are just vehicles.
The vehicles arrive by the intellect,
but I will stay behind.
When you listen without the mind,
becomes the vehicle
unimportant;
its only use
that she helps me to reach you.
It’s my outstretched hand,
so that I can touch your heart.
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