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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday morning.
As you look around, as you think around, the people, family, friends in your life, how many of them are like-minded and how many have really sort of different views, opinions, beliefs to you.
Is there anyone within that circle who has opinions or beliefs that are so radically different from you that you kind of find it almost impossible to understand how they think the way that they do?
There's an old phrase in meditation which is if we can't learn to listen to our own thoughts, then how can we ever learn to listen to the thoughts of others?
And I feel like right now, there's just not a lot of space for listening to other people's thoughts.
This is though we have decided we've made up our mind, we know which camp are in whatever that applies to in the world and we're going to stick to it no matter what.
And we're going to outwardly reject whatever anyone else says.
When we sit to meditate, there is a process.
We're essentially training in witnessing the thought without any bias.
So thoughts are right. We're not chasing after them, we're not engaging with them, we're not creating a story around them.
We're not using those thoughts to either reinforce our opinions or to reinforce our beliefs in any way.
There is simply an acceptance of the coming and going of thought, the stream of consciousness of the thinking mind.
We are simply witnessing it.
And in doing that, we start to see the thoughts more clearly, we start to hear the thoughts more clearly.
Sometimes it makes sense, it seems to make sense to the rational mind.
At other times, it sounds like complete gibberish, complete madness, but it doesn't matter.
That's only really sort of retrospectively when we look back at it.
In that moment, there is no judgment, there is no bias.
When you consider that training and how that might play out in the world, when you're listening or having a conversation with someone who has such radically different views to you, the ability to be able to hear without bias, without prejudice, without judgment can really change certainly the way the conversation unfolds, but it can also change the way in which you
relate and connect with that other person.
So fundamentally believe it is possible to connect to a human level, even when our thoughts, opinions and beliefs don't necessarily match up.
And I've spent time living in so many different countries, so many different cultures, with so many different beliefs and backgrounds and everything else.
And always there is a point of commonality.
And it's the point beyond the thinking mind.
If we can get to a point where we're comfortable with someone else having different thoughts, as long as those thoughts are not harmful to that individual, to ourselves, to anybody else, and as long as there is a shared intention to do good in the world, then it's really possible to transform those relationships.
And instead of thinking of that person as that person, all of a sudden there's a sense of connection and we can move closer together and connect even if we can't connect on a mental level, an intellectual level, whatever that might be, we can at least connect at a human level.
And when it comes to families, and I know this is a huge problem for families, especially sort of a holiday times and sitting around table and you know, things like politics and religion and those kind of things come up in those moments, the ability to not be fixed on a particular idea, not be determined to persuade people to think the same way as we do, that can be transforming, as always, not just for us, but also for the people around us.
Thanks for listening today, I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.
