【LISTENING】– Example of listening: messenger in the military 

[When we] talk about it, hearing is very easy. Actually, just recently, I realized that listening is not easy. I heard about this story and I later encountered it, too. It was said that, in the past, messengers in the military – [when they] didn’t have the convenience of modern phones or telegraphs – so if there was an order, the messenger was called. Relaying the order was very interesting. In front of the commander, [the messenger had to] repeat after the commander once, and then the messenger was asked, “You repeat it again!” Just like that. We hear this and find it strange – does such simple statements need to be repeated? Well, yes, it is required, and once was not enough; it usually had to be repeated twice. At that time, I thought it was strange. Later, I tried it myself and heard about this from others, and now, even telling others, you all can give it a try, try it.  Yesterday, some minor thing happened. Years ago, I remember there was a fellow classmate who I told something, and he [replied] – “I know, got it!” Then, he was asked to repeat what I said in simple terms. He took a long time and mumbled for a long time, but it was far from correct.
 

SOURCE 来源 :

11B 24’00” Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P104 LL4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P61

日常师父法语📡11B 24’00”手抄稿第2册P104 LL4

听闻 : 以传令兵喻听闻

讲起来，那个听闻很容易，实际上我现在才有这个经验，听闻不大容易。我以前听说过一个故事，后来自己也亲自碰见了。相传以前那个军队里边哪，这样的，一个传令兵。不像现在这个电话、电报很方便，所以一个命令啊，他就叫这个传令兵来。那个传令兵传的时候很有意思，在那个指挥官前面，把那个指挥官告诉他如此这般讲一遍，讲完了以后，一定要叫那传令兵，然后呢“你重复一遍！”就这样。我们刚听见了觉得很奇怪，那个简单地告诉你几句话，这还要重复吗？欸，说这一定要重复，重复了一遍不够，往往还要重复两遍。当时我只觉得这个很奇怪，后来我自己试，我也听人家讲，乃至于现在告诉别人哪，你们可以试一试看，试一试看。昨天还发生了一个小小的一个小故事。因为我当年，记得我也是有一个同修，我就告诉他这一件事情这个样的，然后他——懂了、懂了！然后就说：你把我告诉你的话，简单地说一遍，他回答了半天，吱吱呀呀，答了半天哪，不晓得答到哪里去了。