Language Is Polluting And Being Polluted

This talk is a meditation practice. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without getting stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, no agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

**Note: If the mind is not really peaceful now, it might not be a perfect moment to listen to this podcast, be aware of the emotions or reactions.

Language is polluting and polluted by the consciousness.

Transcript

Many words,

Many expressions have been polluted by the self-centered views,

By what we call the general sense.

Why words?

Why the language?

We grew up in all kinds of influences from the tradition,

From the culture.

And this determines many of our behaviors,

Common behaviors which we are not aware of.

And when one encounters the mental challenge,

One gets immediately confused.

Under the influence of the language,

The common usage of the language,

The mind gets confused.

Look at our mental challenges.

How many of them are not related to languages?

We tend to label everything,

Label ourselves,

Label others.

We suffer from the wrong labels.

We suffer from being labeled wrongly by others.

To meditate is to really see this fact.

Verbs are not a thing.

The description is not described.

But the mind tends to mistake the description for the described,

Which creates a lot of confusion,

A lot of contradictions,

Conflicts.

In many moments,

We try to think,

Try to reason,

Which is still in the domain of language,

Thoughts.

Without the proper understanding of the language,

The misuse of language is everywhere in our thinking in the thoughts.

That's why sometimes we can get some very weird conclusions,

Some very problematic conclusions only further mislead us.

It is very important for everyone to see this in their life,

See the mischief played by the language into their life.

Look at the miscommunication between us,

Between everybody.

Most times we speak,

But most times it's sort of a miscommunication,

Isn't it?

All kinds of misunderstandings,

All kinds of problems between the human beings,

Their relationship.

They are all found partially the language.

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