Being other focussed

1. The basic rule for practicing this art is the complete concentration of the listener.


2. Nothing of importance must be on his mind, he must be optimally free from anxiety as well as from greed.


3. He must possess a freely-working imagination which is sufficiently concrete to be expressed in words.


4. He must be endowed with a capacity for empathy with another

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Understanding comes only when we let go of our self and allow the other to grab our full attention. In order for the reality of the other’s self to fully invest us, we must first divest ourselves of our own selves.