Joseph Campbell is brilliant. I how he uses the metaphor of the choice between light and vehicle to which you can identify and find answers to lifes big questions. Shown below (of course his talks just bring it to life). You have a choice - are you the body or the consciousness within the body? Vehicle or light?
Look up - you can say the light is on or the lights is on (plural or singular). Both right. One way the emphasis is put on the individual vs the general. One light bulb goes out, you change it (its not a particularly favorite bulb). That bulb or vehicle is not important its the light that is important.
When you identify with the light, you are identifying with the consciousness not your vehicle. Then with gratitude towards the vehicle you let it go. You are connecting with one that is everlasting (forms come and go again and again). Then one is able to realise you are one with the conscious of all beings.
He challenges us to ask ourselves these things? Why even care? I am happy so there is no need....he responds, "just think a dog has a perfectly happy life without ever thinking of these things. However it is a dogs life. Being interested in a human life is understanding his or her place in the world, it is a pressing matter."
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