Faith is always blind. At the most what it can do is have a loud concentration on its object of faith all the way singing its praises. It can never have a subtle attention for any and everything around, so that nothing goes unlistened to. Faith knows no listening. It only knows speaking and what we need on earth is listening more than speaking.

Turning blind faith into attentive listening is effected by the correct body posture and the correct face expression.

So Focus - turning blind faith into attentive listening program - comprises the correction of both; that, in turn, opens the third eye chakra and the crown chakra.

We have so many complex problems; unfortunately we rely on others, experts and specialists, to solve them. Various forms of faith throughout the world have offered various forms of escape from them. It was thought that science would help to resolve this complexity of human problems; that education would resolve and put an end to them. But one observes that the problems are increasing throughout the world, they are multiplying and becoming more and more urgent, complex, and seemingly endless. Eventually one realizes that one cannot depend on anyone, either on the priests, the scientists or the specialists. One has to "go it alone" for they have all failed; the wars, the divisions of faith, the antagonism of man to man, the brutalities, all continue; constant and progressive fear and sorrow exist.

One sees that one has to make the journey of understanding by oneself; one sees that there is no "authority". Every form of "authority" (except, at a different level, the authority of the technocrats and the specialists,) has failed. Man set up his faith in these "authorities" as a guide, as a means of bringing freedom, peace, and because they have failed they have lost their meaning and hence there is a general revolt against the "authorities", spiritual, moral and ethical. Everything is breaking down. One can see in this country, which is quite young, perhaps 300 years old, that there is already a decay taking place before maturity has been reached; there is disorder, conflict, confusion; there is inevitable fear and sorrow. These outward events inevitably force one to find for oneself the answer; one has to wipe the slate clean and begin again, knowing that no outside authority is going to help, no belief, no faith, no moral standard - nothing. The inheritance from the past, with its Scriptures, its Saviour, is no longer important. One is forced to stand alone, examining, exploring, questioning, doubting everything, so that one's own mind becomes clarified; so that it is no longer conditioned, perverted, tortured.

The Art of Listening

What is listening?

Do we listen actually or do we listen through a screen of faith in our minds?

Do we ever listen to things at all?

Does the act of listening bring about complete freedom from all blinding faith? Is the mind completely attentive?

Then the mind is extraordinarily free to act.

Then the listening is doing.

In my weekend training session for turning blind faith into attentive listening, I just correct your body posture and face expression; and the blind faith turns into attentive listening!

You discover the real physical nature of your body that instantly makes you feel being fully attentive and devoid of all faith so that no noise is there in the mind, as a result of undergoing turning blind faith into attentive listening program.

The only thing left, then, is to turn this personal discovery into your spontaneity - of body and mind; and the instant turning of blind faith into attentive listening becomes the lasting attentive listening for life!