Only,

 

Only because I have Embodied Language (EL), can I acknowledge the catastrophic lies, created by our Disembodied Language (DL), which set the stage for how we use our language. Only in EL, do we have a realistic experience of our language, because in DL, we fabricate and fantasize without even knowing it.

 

Only if you listen to the sound of your voice, while you speak out loud with yourself, will you be able to make the blissful discovery, that language is only happening, is only existing and is only noticeable, when you say, hear, write or read something. There is no language, if you don’t do any one of these four.

 

What people have called the mind and thinking, is a product of DL, our habitual way of talking, in which we don’t listen to ourselves, as listening to others, as well as being listened to by others, is considered to be more important, than listening to ourselves. The fact that we, unknowingly, don’t hear ourselves in our usual way of talking, is deeply problematic.

 

We can only begin to really listen to ourselves – or for that matter, to each other – when we completely abandon this nonsense idea that we think. Thought is an invention of our DL. The fact that everyone, all the time, everywhere, engages in DL, doesn’t make it so, that it is true, there is an inner me, who thinks or has an inner dialogue.

 

In addition, to our, unconscious, dumb, mechanical, inability to listen – to ourselves or each other – we are also incapable of having genuine interaction, as long as we remain so enthralled by our infatuation with our verbal constructs. Furthermore, since we find, what is written, more important than what is said, everything is upside down with our language.

 

Another way of formulating the aforementioned, is that our language is out of control, because we have this false, frightening, superstitious idea, that it is determined by thought, rather than by something we can see, hear, write or read. This lack of control is at least somewhat apparent, as we, presumably, always have something on our mind. However, all our attempts to quiet our illusive mind have failed.   

 

Only with our EL, can we express and, thus, realize our Language Enlightenment (LE). Language doesn’t exist inside of us, as it is always – only – said, heard, written or read. Once we calmly and repeatedly say this to ourselves – while we listen to and enjoy the sound of our own voice – we can’t help, but admit, that this falsehood is at the core of all our problems.

 

Only by logically, consistently, joyfully, confidently and patiently instructing and telling ourselves, by speaking and by writing – that we can really stop our DL, that we can boldly step out of our traumatic, tragic, troublesome history of conditioning, that we feel fortunate, intelligent and happy, to engage in EL, as it allows us to express our LE, and, therefore, be who we are – can we address and change any other self-defeating behavior, which came about and was maintained by our involvement in DL.  

 

There is only a deep and profound silence, when we don’t speak, when we don’t hear anyone, who says anything, when we also don’t speak with ourselves, when we don’t write something and when we don’t read anything. Our perception has totally changed, because, indeed, our nightmare of having a mind, is no longer created and maintained by our language.

 

The correct use of our language is revealed to us by our EL. Only by becoming involved in and familiar with our EL, can we recover from the devastating effects of our almost permanent involvement in DL. Of course, we have all experienced moments of EL, but we have never consciously, skillfully capitalized on these accidental brief instances of our verbal clarity and wellbeing. Our language only makes sense, if the speaker is listened to by a listener. However, it is so easy to forget, each speaker is also his or her own listener. Likewise, each writer is also his or her own reader. In other words, we can speak to or write for ourselves, but we will only regularly do this, after we have first experienced and become aware of the gigantic difference between our DL and EL. It is this difference which initiates us into our EL, in which we accept and explore, that talking with ourselves, is of much greater importance than talking with others.