Happy,
Being happy
involves a focus on how you deal with your language. Many people have talked
about happiness, but they never brought their attention to speaking, listening,
writing, and reading. To the contrary, they are busy with everything else,
except with their language. You consider your language as something you have in
common with others, who belong to the same verbal community, but you have never
stepped away from this so-called group-think, to explore, understand and find your
own language.
How do you
prefer to speak? Why do you listen? What do you write, if you would write about
your way of talking? What is the use of reading what others have written, which
is all based on their involvement in Disembodied Language (DL)? If you would
discover your own way of dealing with language, you would be engaging in
Embodied Language (EL). There are no books about EL and there do not need to be.
Speaking EL is important.
We have greatly
overestimated, exaggerated, and misjudged the importance of written language,
and we have underestimated, neglected, and remained unaware about the necessity
of spoken language. The fact, that we consider written words to be more important
than spoken words, indicates that we are not only missing out on EL, which is,
simply stated, the beauty and joy of the spoken word, but we are also completely
oblivious about the way in which the written word either enhances or undermines
the spoken word. If we engage in DL, we are bound to produce writings, which will
further set us apart, as the restoration of the importance of the spoken word,
by means of writing about it, is as important as speaking about it. You would
only be able to write about EL, if you first spoke about it. You can’t do the
former, if you haven’t done the latter.
Your
happiness has remained merely something you wish for, that is why in DL, you
childishly demand the attention of the listener. Nobody else has ever put into
proper perspective, why, during our usual way of talking, which is DL, speakers
struggle to get and keep getting the attention from the listener? There is only
one reason: to dominate the listener.
In DL the
speaker, in one way or another, coerces the listener. In principle, this done
to prevent the listener from speaking, but this is often covered up by
pretending as if the speaker speaks on behalf of the listener. The speaker,
supposedly, represents the listener, and, yes, he or she would even claim to
give a voice to the voiceless. In EL, on the other hand, speakers do not
dominate listeners, because they listen to themselves, and, therefore, they are
able to experience how the listener is experiencing the speaker. Thus, EL speakers
produce an entirely different sound or energy, than DL speakers.
The listener
hears an EL speaker say things, which he or she could have said so him or
herself and he or she experiences attunement with the speaker, but listening to
a DL speaker, the listener disagrees with the speaker, who he or she experiences
as separate or different from him or herself. In DL, the listener is conflicted
by the speaker. Such conflict appears to continue, in the listener, even after
the DL speaker is no longer there or is done speaking.
Negative
self-talk or a troubled mind is an illusion, created by the so-called memory of
trauma, which is produced by the fact that our nervous system was conditioned
to experience, in the name of ordinary conversation, to endure stress, aggression,
fear, humiliation, anxiety, disrespect, oppression, and, stupidity. The worst form of conditioning, is the conditioning of mediocrity, which prevents the listener
from becoming a speaker, who can listen to him or herself while he or she speaks.
Indeed, DL is the language of superficiality. Obviously, listeners can handle a
lot of abuse, but the lack of intelligence of the forceful, dumb DL speaker, conditions
millions of listeners to go against their own self-interests.
Happiness is
impossible, if we do not know what our self-interest entails, but it will be found if
we recognize it in our way of doing things. We can hear it, while we speak, we
experience it and prolong it, by becoming aware, our happiness has its own
sound. Moreover, our happiness, which I call Language Enlightenment (LE), wants
us to do certain things, but protects us from doing things, which are not
good for us. Thus, with our EL, we fully express our LE and we find happiness in
everything we do.