strings: For us, words like truth, God, have become very important —or the feeling which those words represent. When we say the word 'American', 'Christian', 'Hindu' or the word 'anger'—we are the word representing the feeling. But we don't know what that feeling is, because the word has become important. When you call yourself a Buddhist, a Christian, what does the word mean, what is the meaning behind that word, which you have never examined ? Our centre, the core is the word, the label. If the label does not matter, if what matters is that which is behind the label, then you are able to inquire' but if you are identified with the label and stuck with it, you cannot proceed. And we are identified with the label: the house, the form, the name, the furniture, the bank account, our opinions, our stimulants and so on and •so on. We are all those things—those things being represented by a name. The things have become important, the names, the labels; and therefore thé centre, the core, is the word.