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Language really doesn’t condition the brain; what does is the theory of the language, the abstraction of a certain feeling and the abstraction taking the form of an idea, a symbol, a person – not the actual person but a person imagined, or hoped for, or projected by thought. All those abstractions, ideas, conclusions, however strong, condition the brain. But the actual, like the table, never does. Take a word like ‘suffering’. That word has a different meaning for the Hindu and the Christian, but suffering, however described by words, is shared by all of us. Suffering is the fact, the actual. When we try to escape from it through a theory, or through an idealised person, or through a symbol, those forms of escape mould the brain. Suffering as a fact doesn’t, and this is important to realise. Like the word ‘attachment’: to see the word, to hold it as if in your hand and watch it, feel the depth of it, the whole content of it, the consequences of it, the fact that we are attached – the fact, not the word – that feeling doesn’t shape the brain, doesn’t put it into a mould, but the moment one moves away from it, that is, when thought moves away from the fact, that very movement away, movement of escape, is not only a time factor but the beginning of shaping the brain in a certain mould.
From Krishnamurti to Himself