Result,

 

If you are ever going to talk with me, you will find out, that our conversation has a different result, than any of your usual, so-called interactions, which I describe as Disembodied Language (DL). When you talk with me, you’ll realize, you don’t talk with me, but with yourself. This is the most extra-ordinary experience anyone can have: to talk with oneself, while one is talking with others. I call this Embodied Language (EL) and this is the only way, in which we are able to attain our Language Enlightenment (LE).

 

Everything quiets down, once we have EL, instead of DL, but this is not silence or being without words, as it is the embodiment of being at peace with our language. What has been called silence, has always prevented us from becoming interested in and resolved about our language. Also, there is no such a thing as our  mind, but there is absolutely a very different result or consequence from our DL or EL.

 

Participation in DL results in the common illusion, that we have a behavior-causing self and that it is, presumably, possible to be or not to be ourselves, whereas our expression of EL makes us surprisingly certain, that there is no self or soul, as there is only our embodied language, which, of course, makes us aware about who we are, naturally and effortlessly.

 

As a result of our EL, we can no longer deny our LE, which is self-evident, in that, we feel constantly new and joyfully present. Our perception of reality, that we are always only talking with ourselves, even though it appears as if we are talking with others, is only available to us, due to our ongoing EL, but not by having merely a few haphazard moments of it.

 

Brief, accidental, fleeting instances of EL, will make us more uncomfortable about talking with others, as we can never fully grasp, the in DL ignored fact, that – whether we understand it or not; whether we accept it or not; whether we are aware of it or not; whether we want to know about it or not; whether we say it or not; whether we remain afraid of it or not; whether we like to hear about it or not or whether we are even allowed to acknowledge it or not – we always only can talk with ourselves!!!

 

Due to the unaddressed fact, that DL – and certainly not EL – dominates every conversation everywhere, including in academia and science, social dilemmas are broadly defined as conflicts between immediate self-interest and long-term collective interests. This has led to various assumptions and theories about why people are willing or unwilling to cooperate. Of course, no consideration is given to the imaginary, personal conflict, always involved, in having a self.

 

Words have historically always distracted us from our language, which, unbeknownst to us, is either used correctly or incorrectly. In the former, there is no self, but in the latter, we believe in possessing a  self, in the same way, as we believe in a deity. In other words, paradoxically, our language does not and cannot support us, as long as we still believe in a self, which, supposedly, speaks, listens, reads or writes or in some fictional higher power, who, presumably, watches over us, cares about us and is even causing our actions. The only way, human beings are ever going to be truly responsible, is by admitting, that they are either having DL or EL.

 

Since we don’t know about the difference between DL and EL, except for a few accidental moments of EL, we almost continuously, unconsciously, engage in DL. However, these rare occasions, in which we have some EL – in spite of our conditioning with DL – illustrate it is possible and necessary to stop our conditioning. Going back and forth between DL and EL is stressful and most likely results in giving up. To have ongoing EL requires total dedication. I speak from my experience, which has crystallized in EL.    

 

Once we have identified the difference between DL and EL, it makes no sense anymore to go on with our DL. Knowing the difference between DL and EL, means we can stop our DL, by talking out loud alone with ourselves and by listening to our voice while we speak. Ongoing EL, is the result of letting go of our DL conditioning, which establishes us in our LE. While there may be many ups (with EL) and downs (with DL), there is no question about it: EL draws us into our LE. Regardless of how many times we get it wrong and act out our conditioning, we are bound to get better at recognizing – at hearing – DL as DL and EL as EL, and, eventually, we will get it right.

 

Ongoing EL is not a process of self-improvement or self-help, as there really is absolutely no self to be improved or to be helped. There is only the verbal process of discerning DL or EL. We cannot lie to ourselves and we will find out, due to our DL, we have believed in and pursued all sorts of nonsense. To be able to talk with ourselves, it is necessary to fully comprehend the truth, that we can only talk with ourselves. Thus, we cannot talk with ourselves, as long as we don’t accept the new facts of our EL.

 

As I mentioned before, there is no self, therefore, talking with oneself is merely another way of saying that we engage in EL. We may use the same words, we used in DL, but use them differently in EL. We still speak, write, hear and read the same language, but our relation with our language has dramatically changed. In retrospect, we understand that in DL, we have used our language in a stupid way, but in EL, we use language in an intelligent manner. The latter is the result of our LE, but the former is the result of our profoundly, problematic, pathetic, pessimistic, punitive conditioning-history with DL.