ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on all energy in the ingoing and outgoing breath. In meditation practice, the most elusive point of concentration is nowness. Good listening has an enormous quality of nowness. The listener has made no prior decisions or laid down any precious structure of his own in relation to the speaker. Nowness closes no doors. The chapter involves an openness which throws away fears and expectations. It opens itself to risks, to new learning, experiences and interpretations. Nowness means the ability to throw away those intellectualizations when the client goes off in an unexpected direction. Nowness lies in the absence of the bubble of separation between watcher and watched; a lack of awareness of self. Nowness is the essential direct experience; the unity between helper and helped. The Buddha told a parable in a sutra: A man travelling across a field encountered a tiger after him.
