04/13/2026
Listening to something is easy because it doesn't go through the mind. It is our natural behavior. Evaluation, comparison, is very difficult because it involves mental effort.
In this listening, there is a welcoming of all that happens, an unfolding, and this unfolding, this welcoming, is timeless. All that you welcome appears in this timelessness, and there is a moment when you feel yourself timeless, feel yourself in welcoming, feel yourself in listening, in attention.
Because attention has its own taste, its own flavor. There's attention to something, there's also attention in which there's no object: nothing to see, nothing to hear, nothing to teach, only attention.
- Jean Klein, interview with Stephan Bodian
