Distraction,

 

Only a few lines are needed, to create the optical illusion, that you are looking at a landscape, where, seemingly, bigger objects are close by and smaller objects are in the distance. You are looking a flat, two-dimensional surface of a piece of paper, but even in the most primitive paintings – in which, probably, for childish reasons, objects are out of proportion – a sense of perspective is evoked. While you know, you look at something, which has only two dimensions (length and breadth), you are distracted into believing, you are looking at three dimensions (length, breadth and depth). A similar illusion occurs with our language, but, the illusion, that is created by our usual Disembodied Language (DL), is what we call thinking, thought or our mind.

 

Gestalt is a school of psychology and a theory of perception, which emphasizes the processing (thinking?) of entire patterns and configurations and not merely individual components. We say the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. Perhaps, you have seen, the black and white picture of two white faces, but if you look at the black space, in the middle, you see a cup. Either you perceive these two faces, or you see the cup and your perception flips back and forth, because it isn’t clear, which one is the most important. Of course, your conditioning history determines, if you prefer one or the other. My point is, that our conditioning is a distraction, which makes us see things, in this or in that way.     

 

You haven’t been able to look at the bigger picture and attend to the great difference between your DL and your Embodied Language (EL), because there is just too much distraction going on. Presumably, all sorts of other things, are more important and the illusion of your thinking, could never become clear to you. What you imagine, you are doing, while you are, supposedly, thinking, has nothing to do with silent inward seeing or with your ridiculous fantasy about being conscious, but with the inevitable consequences of how you have used your language. These consequences would change, if you had EL.

 

When you switch from DL to EL, you know, that you have finally stopped your own distraction from your own language. You so-called thinking or your mind, was maintained by your DL, therefore, language was your biggest distraction from what was important to you. Surely, in DL, you don’t listen to yourself, while you speak, but in EL, you listen to your own voice. In EL, you produce a very different sound than in DL, because you speak with a voice you enjoy and like to listen to. You know, in EL, that you speak with your own voice, but in DL, you mechanically, habitually, involuntarily speak with a voice which isn’t yours. In DL, because you don’t listen to the sound of your own voice, you believe, that you are thinking. Once you switch from DL to EL, you find, all your so-called thinking effortlessly stops, because you correctly perceive your language, as happening outside of you, instead of, incorrectly, inside of you.

 

Like everyone else, you seek to be distracted from your so-called thoughts, because, at a physiological level, your body has always known, your words and sentences do not and could not occur within it. You go for a walk, to supposedly, clear your head, but if there is relief from your self-imposed make-believe, it is always because, by walking, you brought back again your attention – which was all over the place – to your body. Of course, if you would do this, with your own EL, the effect will be much greater and more beneficial, than if you only went for a walk.

 

When you calmly say, out loud, to yourself, what you want to say and what you are capable of saying, about what is – according to you – going on with you, you take charge of your language. With your EL, you will experience an immediate, effortless, transformational distraction from your presumably, dark, confused, chaotic, fearful, meaningless, energy-draining mind. Suddenly, you feel full of energy, lighter than a feather and unburdened. Of course, although you have made the switch, from DL to EL, your conditioning history with DL will still continue, so you still, occasionally, believe that you are thinking, but each time you hear yourself say, what you, supposedly, think, it disappears, just like that. Thus, each time you are able to continue with EL, you realize your Language Enlightenment (LE).

 

Since nobody talks – alone, with themselves – about the great difference between DL and EL, everyone, unknowingly, engages in DL. You could say, DL is the language of distraction, because we continuously yank each other around with our language and we accept this as normal, as business as usual, when in fact, this is a gigantic problem. When we are finally able to look at politics, religion, amusement, books, newspapers, social media, movies and advertising from our newly acquired EL-perspective, we realize, these are important, due to our need for distraction.

 

When we are not merely having a brief moment of much-needed distraction from your depressive, dull, fucked-up, manipulative, automatic, unintelligent, forceful, repetitive, humorless, deceitful, disgusting  DL, with our EL, but when we are actually capable of continuing with it, we cannot miss the obvious fact, that we do not think, although, with DL, we were conditioned by and used to a way of talking about thought, as if our thought was true. Our common way of talking, which sets the stage of how we deal with our language, is a distraction from ourselves. This is not an optical, but auditory illusion, as we are enthralled with dominating speakers, who engage in DL and who with the sound of their voice pretend to be strong, certain, knowledgeable, in control, calm, friendly, certain, open, funny, relaxed or truthful. In DL, people just act as if, but they are not authentic.

 

Since we don’t acknowledge the difference between DL and EL, we have no idea at all about the extent to which our common way of talking, which is DL, is a constant distraction. Going back to the possibility of optical illusions and seeing things, perspectives, which aren’t really there, with our EL – by talking with ourselves and listening to ourselves – we begin to pay attention to things, we have been told and have heard. By listening to ourselves and by bringing our language in touch with our voice, we realize that thought doesn’t exist, as our language is overt, that is, we say it and hear it and we read it and write it.  Unless we talk out loud with ourselves and listen to ourselves, we remain enthralled, with what we have been told and we dismiss what we say to ourselves and thus, with EL, we step out of our conditioning history with DL. Even if it may seem, as if we still think, each time we let ourselves know, we were only temporarily overtaken again by our DL, which is our common distraction, our mind quickly dissolves.