Awareness and Hearing During Meditation

What is the relationship between awareness and the faculty of hearing during meditation? Rupert says: ‘It’s awareness that actually hears, but you hear through the faculty of hearing. Although only awareness is aware, so only awareness can experience anything, if you were deaf, you couldn’t hear, but you would still be aware. You hear through the faculty of hearing, but with awareness. When we let go of thinking and perception, our faculties are infused with the presence of awareness. Normally your mind is so full of thoughts, feelings and perceptions that the bright light of awareness is filtered out. But in meditation, the mind settles down, there’s more space, so the light of awareness flows into the mind. That’s what you feel as being “charged”.’

From event 05 - 12 April, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 5–12 April 2025

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