Aware listening is active work, not passive respite

Evidence

To listen with awareness is not about entertaining silence, parking the bot, being unproductive. Like other meditation forms—it is work. It informs us. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 487

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the romantic notion of silence-as-rest; aligns with the book’s theme that silence can be labor. — connects to: Listening is a cultivated skill, not an automatic sense, and it shapes culture — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 481; Deep Listening practice is comprehended through doing, not abstract study — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 653; Attention strategies are ways of listening responsive to self, others, and environment — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 284 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 487

Broader Connections

• Listening actively shapes the sound it perceives rather than merely registering it #expands (0.85) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 346