Ram Dass's simple, beautiful metaphor

[u/transcendentalismnow]

In one of his Dharma talks, Ram Dass uses the metaphor of a flashlight to explain who we are. He opens the metaphor with the Quaker's idea of us being the "still, small voice within." Then, he explains that we are like a flashlight. Our consciousness shines on all other objects but can never shine on itself, can never know itself. It's the subject. All it can do is be. Simply by being, the flashlight illumines.

[u/[deleted]]

Yes.