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F.: Too, the Jiukiukwe have no words in their language for “hate,” “war,” “greed,” “contend,” “competition,” or “rival.” Contrast their language, which has no word for “hate,” with the Aryan language (spoken first in Germany and Austria, then in England and the U.S., but now spreading across the globe) which includes: hate, hatred, animosity, loathing, enmity, abhorrence, disaffection, alienation, coolness, disgust, estrangement, and all the related words such as resent, resentment, dislike, repugnance, revenge, despise, venomous, bitterness, detestation, umbrage, and antipathy. To that list you could likely add hundreds of other words with similar meaning or connotation. What does the absence of those words reveal about the culture/philosophy of the Jiukiukwe and the other tribes mentioned, and what does the presence of those words reveal about persons in societies that use the Aryan/Anglo-Saxon language? Also revealing is the fact that among the Jiukiukwe, the words “angry” and “insane” are closely related.

Then there are the Penans and the Apayao tribes. Neither tribe has words or terms for “separation” or for “thank you.” There is no separation or proprietorship in their worldview, so there’s no need to thank anyone for anything because there are no words for “giving” or for “taking.” All is shared with all others, so there is no personal ownership. With no concept of land ownership, and believing that the land offers up the elements and the energy that facilitate the manifestation of consciousness, they treat all land as equally valuable. There is no “apart from,” so when the Europeans introduced the idea that certain parcels of land are “holy,” (a word which by definition means “different from” and thus perpetuates dual-mindedness) the tribe members could not understand that concept. One early post on this site discussed the conflict that grows out of the western concepts of possession that are expressed with “my” and “mine.” Those two words do not exist in the languages of the tribes above. Also, the Apayaos have no words for "duality,” “hello” or “goodbye,” again because they have no concept of separation. When they arrive, they arrive; when they leave, they leave. It all just happens, but not in any timeframe or with any sense of disconnection. Finally, certain early Eastern Mediterranean tribes had no word for “separation” either since, like all the tribes mentioned above, they had no concept of duality or separation. The concepts of separation and time are religious in origin—used originally to log dates for feasts, for celebrations and for animal or human sacrifice and to describe "the final separation" of the "good" who go up there while the "bad" end up down there, for time eternal. (Agricultural applications of “time” and calendars for planting came later.) However, it was mainly Anglo-Saxons who took the concept of "time" to its current level where clocks now dominate the daily lives of most persons. As the Europeans began their colonization of the world, they spread the religious concepts of birth, life, death, judgment and eternal punishment or reward, and the reality of cycling was lost as time and timelines became a generally-held belief. (Note too how the Christ message of humility was lost when "the seat of Christianity" shifted from the Mideast desert to the western extravagance of Rome/Vatican City. An eastern philosophy rooted in de-accumulation gave way to the western influence of a religion marked by opulence and accumulation. As the western version of the "Christian religion" flourished, the Advaita message of Christ was abandoned, and as combative language flourished, the peace he spoke of waned.) What is the pointer around language differences for Advaitans? First, the relevance of the pointer I repeated yesterday is clear: “the prerequisites for contaminating the consciousness and producing the illusion of a ‘mind’ include words, letters, language…etc.” When consciousness is contaminated and then thoughts and ideas and concepts are expressed via a combative language of bellicosity and belligerence, war will result and peace shall not be known...not in the family, not in the community, and not in the world. Secondly, a "language of reality" exists. Advaitans are conscious of the words and word structures used. A shift occurs in the ways of communication as the realized awaken to the potential influence of words on the mindset of entire populations. While aware that truth cannot be stated, the realized are also aware of the untruths that words convey. Next, since the impact of words is known, they are used less and less among the realized. The quiet is not imposed; after clarity manifests, the silence just starts happening. Finally, look to the languages of the tribes discussed and see what “natural living” was like for millions of years: no wanting, no desiring, no sense of separation, no divisions of land into “holy” and “not holy," and thus no fighting over ownership of “holy land.” Then, know that the realized de-accumulate in all areas in order to live naturally. Any desire to live supernaturally or unnaturally eventually fades away. The value of the void is applied to talking as well.” Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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