Listening

Listening is a deep participation between the body and the soul. And that’s why it has been used as one of the most potential methods for meditation...because it bridges the two infinities: the material and the spiritual.

Whenever you are sitting, just listen — to whatsoever is going on; it is a marketplace and there is much noise and traffic and the train and the plane — listen to it with no rejection in the mind that it is noisy. Listen as if you are listening to music, with sympathy, and suddenly you will see that the quality of the noise has changed. It is no longer distracting, no longer disturbing; on the contrary, it becomes very soothing. If listened to rightly, even the marketplace becomes a melody.

So, what you are listening to is not the point — the point is you are listening, not just hearing.

Even if you are listening to something that you have never thought of as worth listening to, listen to it very cheerfully — as if you are listening to a Beethoven sonata — and suddenly you will see you have transformed the quality of it. It becomes beautiful. And in that listening your ego will disappear.

-Osho