Delicious,

 

It is delicious to be able to have Embodied Language (EL) and to know that there is always something new to be said or written. Anyone who has no knowledge of EL carries, unnoticed, a negative feeling, because it is of course very unpleasant that we keep repeating ourselves and each other. We, unconsciously, carry an enormous burden with us, as long as EL does not occupy a central place in our lives.

 

While many people have heard of EL over the forty or so years I have spoken and written about it, very few have taken it further. Most people fail, precisely because of this constant innovation. The idea that everything is always different, than what we supposedly thought, is threatening, because we no longer believe in thinking, as we deal with our language so differently and draw different conclusions because of our EL.

 

The novel way in which we handle our language happens because it can happen with EL. It can never happen with DL, because we don't have any awareness, that everything can and will change because of how deal with our language. We are, so to speak, clinging to sometimes lengthy, sometimes short, but always disjointed pieces of text, we drag along with us, everywhere we go. Someone who has EL is not stuck on anything verbal, as his or her language is liberated from what has happened to language in the past. Because of our EL, we always start with a clean slate, a different, a new experience and an expanded perception. This delightful reality is the expression of our Language Enlightenment (LE).

Nothing needs to be said, heard, 

written, read or understood in 

EL and yet exactly what is

 important to us is always

 mentioned. What we consider 

to be important, to ourselves, 

is of no importance to others, 

except that they, too, can only 

know what is important to them

 through their EL. There is no

 other way, and once EL is no

 longer produced by us and 

therefore can no longer be heard, 

we become entangled in our 

language and everything we

 do or don't do stems from

 our automatic participation 

in DL. Everything we say 

then carries a lot of weight.

 

Even many years after discovering, enjoying, sharing and exploring EL with others, I couldn't help but doubt, not so much the bliss it gave me, but what I, on my own authority, have come to articulate and understand. It is now an indisputable fact that my LE has caused a permanent change in my language. For others, too, the stabilization of EL will depend on the extent to which they dare to admit that they too are, by nature, enlightened beings.

 

It's delicious, to be sure of what I'm saying. EL has nothing to do with self-assurance and I replace that word with language-certainty. There is no self in EL and so we can finally deal with our own language. DL created the illusion of a self, having experiences, but EL showed that because of DL, we were actually always out of touch with our own experience. We were, without knowing it, diligently searching in vain – with our DL – for what could reconnect us to our own experience. Our obsession with conflict and violence stems from our inability to stop our DL. We only seem to be really alive, so to speak, when we experience a lot of drama and suffering.

 

There is no problem with EL, because our LE is unaffected, even though we have spent years with nothing but DL. Everyone can still pick up the thread immediately, by saying and hearing that his or her renewal does not depend on time. The immediate effect of EL is wonderful and if it's not experienced that way, then it's not EL. Also, our perception of LE is suddenly clear to us, because it was always DL that tricked us. DL is like a diaper, it treats us as if we are children. An innocent child is easily tricked or frightened by some scary story. Therefore, DL fairy tales are lessons to do as we are  told, otherwise punishment will surely follow.

 

So with our superstitious, naïve, grandiose DL, we never really grow up. It is irrefutable that in DL speakers always demand – like a crying nonverbal baby – attention from the listeners. Moreover, the obligatory listening to a speaker always refers to the social status, which continues to make it possible to dominate others, which literally means, to patronize others. However, in EL we are all equal, so there’s no fighting. Like me, everyone has doubts about the new mode of communication, in which there is absolutely no conflict or fear. We're not used to it. We never get used to EL, as it's always new. This is the only way our LE expresses itself.