In this talk, Josh offers a dharmic interpretation of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” and how meditation helps free us from being defined by conceptual projections and awakens us to a direct experience of the way things are.

“And if he were forcibly dragged up the steep and rugged ascent and not let go till he had been dragged out [of the cave] into the sunlight, the process would be a painful one, to which he would much object, and when he emerged into the light his eyes would be so dazzled by the glare of it that he wouldn’t be able to see a single one of the things he was now told were real.” – Plato, The Republic