Today Michael introduced the technique of listening to the Sound of Silence, using a talk by Ajahn Sumedho. The portion we listened to begins at minute 13.40 of this link.
http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/10/talk/4264/
We also discussed and explored Ajahn Sumedho’s encouragement to look at each arising object of consciousness intuitively and holistically to see “the way it is.” He speaks of this often, and one good place to listen is talk on “Getting to the Root of the Problem.”