While I do agree with the precept about listening, you do wander off into a religious mindset rather than one of personal interaction with the Person of God. My experience in applying the encouragement to "pray without ceasing" encompasses the primacy of a relationship, not cleaning our physical bodies of impurities. It is not an ethereal exercise.

Still and all what you say is true: "It’s true when they say the one who talks gives information and the one who listens gains knowledge." Biblica praying, if you are born anew, you may need to learn, is a two-way and not a one-way exercise. However, you are holding on to a misconception. This concept is, again, more like something from a guru, not the Holy Spirit, because, at least in my experience, an intelligible voice softly and gently speaks verbiage, in sentences, to my mind, and opens my understanding

Biblical praying without ceasing, after exercising it for a time, becomes a lot like walking and chewing gum at the same time - natural and effortless. The application of the answers from God are the more difficult part and it is where I often stumble. In fact there was a major vocational path provided where God said "Go there and Ill get you a job." (which Je did.), but further done that vocational road, disaster overcame me. Why? Because God had opened the door, but I left him outside, kind of peering through the window. I had stopped praying without ceasing and was relying on my own knowledge, wisdom, and abilities.. Big oops.

Yet, He remains faithful and "restoreth my soul" and "directs my path," and "although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death," He sticks with me. "He restores my soul."

That section with "I think the time has come for us to rethink prayer. It is time to make prayer simple again just like Jesus taught us to pray..." was more than very good advice.

So, in the end I would advise you only to drop the Eastern religious meditation of emptying and adopt the Biblical concept of focusing and thinking - concentrating about how to apply the words of the living God, Jesus and the Bible in your own real living life.

Life is a road. Biblical Christianity is the road less traveled.