Violent,

 

Although everyone, unconsciously, engages every day, almost continuously, in Disembodied Language (DL), our common, expected, troublesome way of dealing with language is inherently violent. Yes, it is violent, to speak and not to hear oneself and expect others to listen. Our attention-demanding way of talking determines how we deal with our language and sets the stage for all other behavior. In effect, how we sound, while we speak, creates the chaos and the problems, we haven’t been able to address and solve. Violent behavior isn’t the solution, but our violent language keeps such behavior going.   

 

It is astonishing, we still haven’t acknowledged, that all our violent behavior, is caused by and, therefore, preceded by our language. Therefore, to decrease violence, we must decrease our participation in DL. You would hope, our psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists,  teachers, doctors, scientist and leaders, should be able to acknowledge this, but none of them do. Nowadays, there’s a lot of talk is going on about hate-speech, which, presumably, sets the stage for violent acts, but not a word is ever said about our usual DL, in which a speaker hierarchically separates him or herself from the listener and thus, sounds coercive and violent. Supposedly, we are allowed to be violent and we justify our violence, because, presumably, we are more important than others, better than others or holier than others. All religions are maintained by DL and preach violent nonsense. They distort our use of language and in doing so, take away our freedom. Instead of having Embodied Language (EL), we live in superstitions.       

 

Our punitive involvement in DL is involuntary and antithetical to any sense of individuality. We merely get to mechanically act out our conditioning history  and nobody seems to notice, that we are actually violent, when we say, that we think or have a mind, as we constantly force something on ourselves and on each other. We are only able to stop our violent belief in thought, if we stop our DL and engage in EL. When we do this, we don’t transcend our mind, but we fully acknowledge, it never really existed.  

 

The violent, false and utterly foolish notion, that we think or must think, is based on fear, which could never disappear, as long as we continued with our DL. Once our use of language is based on our own wellbeing, our fear is gone and our language is no longer working against us. Also the idea of having positive, empowering, non-violent thoughts is pure bullshit. In EL, we use our language correctly. All our attention only goes to our overt actions, such as our speaking, listening, writing and reading and not to violent, repressive, imaginary inner, private speech.

 

With DL, we have kept our fear going, by our belief in a non-existent mind. We fear to use language for our own benefit, as we have been punished for this over and over again. There is no support anywhere for our EL. Only if we take time, to talk calmly out loud with ourselves and listen to ourselves, can we step out of our stress, anxiety, frustration, confusion and dissatisfaction, which we experience, due to our participation in our usual DL. Only then, do we stop being violent and undermining to ourselves.

 

Since we have never addressed – for ourselves – the great difference between DL and EL, all our efforts to, supposedly, improve our communication, were, paradoxically, making us more violent. Rather than addressing and stopping our DL altogether, we got endlessly carried away by meaningless hair-splitting, as we invented issues like micro-aggressions. These, presumably, subtle, verbal or nonverbal behaviors, which can be conscious or unconscious, are directed at a member of a marginalized group and have a harmful, derogatory effect. What we are attempting to talk about, however, is DL, but addressing DL with DL, only makes things worse, as it creates more DL.

 

When DL is confronted with more DL, there is war. This war can be fought with weapons and language can be weaponized. Surely, when someone like me, who knows very well, what is DL and what is EL, engages – albeit unwillingly – in DL with someone else, who has DL, he or she knows, that he or she engages DL, while the person, who doesn’t know  about the difference between DL and EL, doesn’t know, that he or she engages in DL. Thus, I can engage in DL and say and admit it is DL, because I am conscious of it, but you, who yet have to discern for yourself, the difference between EL and DL, you don’t know or you don’t even realize that you are unconsciously engaging in DL. I have stood my ground on many occasions, but I no longer do that, as people get immediately violent, when their DL is exposed. In all so-called debates or arguments, we are violent. Since we have never acknowledged this, our violent DL has continued unabated. Indeed, only someone knowledgeable and conscious, like me, is capable of stopping our DL and unless others are respectfully listening to me, we will never get to EL. I view myself as a pioneer or scientist, as I have come to know what nobody has been able to articulate.        

 

Whenever someone – out of the blue –  commits a violent act, everyone is puzzled about how this could happen. However, all our violent behavior is always preceded by DL, that is, by violent language. The fact, that we refuse to look into it, doesn’t make it go away. Mankind’s blatant denial of DL causes enormous problems, as it always escalates in more violent behavior. EL, by contrast, truly paves the way for a different way of life, because a different way of dealing with language, effects all our other behavior. As we become capable of having EL, we eventually will stop all our violent, neurotic, self-defeating behavior, which were created and maintained by DL.

 

Our Language Enlightenment (LE) is our ability to have ongoing EL. We all know, when we say, we feel tired, we feel tired. In other words, our language refers to our experience and doesn’t contradict it. However, our experience of feeling tired, isn’t the same as saying we are feeling tired. As stated, there can be – for proper use of language, there ought to be – congruence between what we say and how we say it, between what we say and our experience. It is only during EL, that we are conscious about such congruence, but in DL we remain unconscious about the incongruence between our words and what our words actually refer to. Consciousness is a word that refers to the correct, happy, fulfilling way of using our language. Conversely, unconsciousness is the incorrect, problematic use of language. As long as there is fear, we are unable to use our language correctly. Thus, in LE, we have no mind or thoughts.