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A Dharma Talk is a practice.
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And it's best when we listen.
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We stop our thinking , we just allow the Dharma to penetrate into our
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our heart.
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No thinking.
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It's strange, but that is the practice
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that we do.
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Our mind is like the soil.
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The garden.
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There are many good seeds that are already in it,
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and the seed of understanding, the seed of love,
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the seed of forgiveness, the seed of joy and hope.
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We have many good seeds in the soil of our consciousness.
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So I a good Dharma Talk is a talk that can water the good seeds in us,
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and help them to sprout and bring up the energy of joy, happiness, understanding, and love.
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Therefore we don't need to think,
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just allow the Dharma Talk as the rain penetrating into the soil of our heart,
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and help water the good seeds in us.
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The way we used to listen is
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to compare what we know and the things that are being said.
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When someone say something, we want to bring our our knowledge up and we compare.
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If they coincide,
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and then we said, yes, I agree.
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And if they do not coincide,
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we said, no, I don't agree.
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And in both case, we learn nothing.
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So the best kind of listening is
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no comparing, no thinking.
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just allow the Dharma Talk to penetrate and to work on the land of our soil.
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That is the art of listening to a Dharma Talk.
