What is the difference between deliberately trying to listen, and just listen?

Quoting Foyan in the chapter Naked Realization:

Just now an assistant came and announced that the rain isn’t stopping, and people may not be able to hear if a meeting is held in the rain. Supposed the rain stopped right now— then would you hear?

I say it’s best when the rain doesn’t stop. Why? Because you are not deliberately trying to listen.

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Bankei said something similar too:

The actual proof of this Unborn which perfectly manages [everything] is that, as you're all turned this way listening to me talk, if out back there's the cawing of crows, the chirping of sparrows or the rustling of the wind, even though you're not deliberately trying to hear each of these sounds, you recognize and distinguish each one. The voices of the crows and sparrows, the rustling of the wind—you hear them without making any mistake about them, and that's what's called hearing with the Unborn. In this way, all things are perfectly managed with the Unborn. This is the actual proof of the Unborn.

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I think I'm missing the point here. Have you all being so distracted by your thoughts, or so focused on something else, that all the sound around you became noise? Have you all tried to listen to every instrument playing in some music individually? Would you listen to it if you didn't tried to do it? Would you find a detail on an painting if you did not search for any? Would you solve a problem if you did not seek for a solution? If I'm not paying attention, then how can the mind discriminate between this and that?

With this point I ask: what is the difference between deliberately trying to listen, and just listen?

Thanks in advance.

Submitted February 08, 2019 at 05:14PM by 1Kaitei http://bit.ly/2MX8178