Reasoning,

 

The reason people don’t and can’t reason, is their common way of talking. In our usual way of talking, which is Disembodied Language (DL), we don’t listen to ourselves while we speak. Using our language effectively, is not a matter of so-called thought – because thinking or having a mind, is the inevitable fantasy of having inner language or private speech, which, of course, is created and maintained by our unconscious, effortful, involuntary involvement in DL – but a matter of speaking with and listening to ourselves, while we speak. Only when we hear our own voice, while we speak, can and will we engage in Embodied Language (EL) and are we capable of speaking rationally, coherently, effectively and joyfully, about our own experiences. Only our EL allows us to finish our sentences and, therefore, we act on how we instructed ourselves. In DL, by contrast, we say one thing, but we do something that contradicts what we are saying. In EL, we are congruent, but in DL, we are incongruent, fragmented, conflicted and dumb.

 

Your Language Enlightenment (LE) is simply the continuation of your EL. Once you have ongoing EL, everything is in place and there is nothing to do or to say. Enjoying your LE is not a matter of having EL, since your EL has subsided. Although you have used your intelligence optimally – due to your EL – you now reap the fruits of your EL and your intelligence. In other words, your LE is the result of your reasoning. You have created order with EL and now you live in that reality. You are neither happy nor sad, as these experiences, at this point, do not matter anymore. Stated differently, because you have followed your own EL to its ultimate rational conclusion, you are happy with nothing. This nothingness, however, is very different from the negative nothingness you experienced with DL.

 

The nothingness, which is experienced, but never acknowledged, by those who engage in DL, is the absence of wellbeing, but the nothingness of EL, is – you can’t miss it – the presence of wellbeing. A nice word to describe your LE is grace. EL makes you graceful and grateful. Also, the nothingness of DL is a sense of permanent restlessness, but nothingness of EL is a notion of timelessness, which was accomplished with great patience, as you have been capable of saying what you were able and willing to say. Elaborate, full expression of your EL took time, but brought you in touch with eternity. Your LE is the nothingness from whence you have come and became who you are today and into which you will certainly one day dissolve again, at the moment of your death. There’s nothing to say about death, as there’s only something to say about life. What has been said about death by people with DL, is a bunch of nonsense.

 

With your DL, you cannot even talk about your own experiences correctly, let alone about your own death. Obviously, you fear the end of your life, as long as you engage in DL, but you will no longer be in denial of your mortality with your EL. You already die, while you are still alive with your EL and your let go of your EL provides you with a sense of deathlessness. To us, who have faith in our own EL, there is no death, as we are the master over our life and our death. Our LE is a transitoriness or wisdom, which was afforded to us by the fluidity of our EL. In DL, everything is stuck, and our words sound like one big failure.

 

Our LE is as much about animals and things, as it is about other people. Here too, the latter makes the former possible and our care about animals, trees, streams and mountains makes us compassionate about the suffering we hear and see in those, who have DL. Furthermore, our forgiveness is our understanding, that those who have DL, cannot understand what they are going through. Moreover, we have – with our EL – no longer any urge, to intervene or help, as our interference would prevent others from discovering their own salvation with their EL. Surely, we can only have EL, if we have had enough of our own DL. No one is able to decide for others, when it has been enough. Likewise, no one with DL is able to divert me from my EL.  

 

I can leave people alone, because I am alone with my LE and no one with DL can appreciate or acknowledge my aloneness. Only someone with EL is able to do this, as they have their own experience of their LE with ongoing EL. No matter how briefly your EL continues, it always indicates your LE, immediately. Brevity of EL stimulates you to stay with it longer, as you experience your participation in DL as a lost opportunity. Simply stated, your EL shows you, you have been wasting your life with DL. In that sense, EL is shocking, as you can’t escape the far-reaching implications of this conclusion.

 

One of your stunning realizations with EL will be, that others can’t help you, as they, unknowingly, engage in DL. Those who have EL, will tell you to figure it out yourself. Each time, you turn to others, your DL is affirmed and turning away from them, doesn’t necessarily result in turning to yourself. Once you recognize and stop your DL, you will attend to yourself with your ongoing EL and instruct yourself very differently.

 

DL of others is irrelevant. You must only pay attention to your own DL. You can only have EL, if you acknowledge your conditioning history with DL. Everyone – in DL – pretends, like you, their DL isn’t all that bad, but you experience this every day, the tragic consequences of your DL are devastating. Perhaps, this is one of the most difficult aspects about DL. You have to admit how ever-present its terrible consequences are, in yourself and others. It is more disturbing to admit your own catastrophes, then to complain about the foolishness of others. Only if you hear – even though you don’t want to – your DL, it stops. You carry on with EL, while everyone goes on with DL. It is possible for you, as you bravely keep doing whatever it takes, to be able to have ongoing EL.