Transit Meditation: Listening

This week our sun transits Gate 13: Listening. In these days of Listening. Listening is not hearing. Listening is absorbing the sound. It is listening to the whole story, the experience, the experiencer, the past, the whole problem, beyond any raw desire to accomplish a goal, It is Deep Listening. Deep Listening is actually Empathy. Empathy is to be within the other. This is growing and evolving collective awareness beyond individual experience, beyond the illusion of separation. It is the sensitivity of awareness itself experiencing itself. May we listen to our feelings with that universal self-witnessing. May we hear the story of history being played out in the collective, as simply the illusion of separation failing us. May we experience the natural optimism inherent in our awareness, our active listening, watching our desire and courage become compassion and release. May we join again each other in our listening, and experience the spaciousness and aliveness of god’s love for all in all. Echo of Your HeartJames Forshaw, my father’s only brother, wrote the lyrics to this song, Echo of Your Heart. It is about listening your heart by feeling how something feels. We are all echoes…everything you see and feel is an echo. I can’t find them published anywhere. Below is a link to the song and some text they put with it. You do not need an account to listen on soundcloud (just close that window if it pops up by clicking the “X” in the upper right corner). “Listen to your heart and it will always keep you on the right track. It connects to part of the universe and the source of love that our conscious mind mostly doesn’t.Home, Life, Love...Listen to your heart’s echo ❤️” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe