By means of language such a thing becomes possible. Again and again
language misleads us into thinking that solid bridges of thought
stretch from _I_ to _I_. But when I say, “That is green,” “That is a
tree,” and so forth, and another person says the same, in strict truth
we both agree only as regards the form of words. Each reacts in his
own individual fashion, perceives his own “green,” his own “tree.” The
Buddha instructs us that this individual perception and sensation also
are merely forms of the individual combustion- or alimentation-process.
These, too, are nourishment, a tasting, just like that of the tongue.
_We all eat out of the one dish--every one eater for himself._
“Whence, then, springs the uniformity found in our terms of speech?”