This research is of three objecting : 1) to study the general ideas about the deep listening, 2) to study the principles of deep listening in Theravāda Buddhism and 3) to study the application of the guidelines for the deep listening in the contemporary societies.
From the research it is found as follows :
1. The general ideas about the deep listening were classified into two types : 1) listening to internal sound such as ideas, feelings and values happening within oneself, 2) listening to the external sounds such as the listening arising from the touch, the relation, the benefit, and the data between message receiver and the message sender. The deep listening was to find out the meaning, to have the participation, to have a step over the other’s negative attitudes, Agati different from ours as wrong and it is the listening to gain the intelligence.
2. It is found that the principles of deep listening in Theravāda Buddhism are of two main factors : 1) the external factor generally called Paratoghosa which means the listening to the teaching, the studying, the talking, the suggesting especially the listening from good friends the fact of which is known as Sutamaya-paññā which is the intelligence arising from listening, and 2) internal factor called Yonisomanasikāra which means the ingeniously listening, the carefully considering, the finding of the causes of such problems, the realizing of the relation of the factors known as Cintamaya-paññā, the intelligence with Dhamma principles of three factors : 1) Sati is the controller of all listening and made the listening be at the physical level, the mental level and the spiritual level of the story and speaker. 2) Yonisomanasikāra which is the intelligent principle forming the knowledge, the understanding and the justice in every day life. 3) For the Agati, when the audience has no Agati but the listener up to the end of the speech with the media until the listening was successful towards the goal, it could be said that the well listening led to the intelligence.
3. From the application of the guidelines for deep listening in the contemporary societies, it is found that the format of dialogue is the process with the participation of deep listening. It is the process to provide an opportunity for an individual or the groups of people with different beliefs and different standpoints to share their feelings and deep listening to one another’s factors towards better understanding and overlooking at one another for self reference and learning the opportunity, the developing and the understanding all the situations. Accordingly, the misunderstanding and the conflicts were changed to better understanding and sympathizing with the realization of the format of dialogues. That was an alternative to develop understanding, prevent and reduce the conflicts. The process of dialogue format can be used in every day life and is the important format of “Peaceful Means” to reduce the conflicts and to develop the right participation in the sustainable, and peaceful societies with good understanding.
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