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The metaphor of light is a

common image in all the major

religious traditions. In the Buddhist

context, light is particularly associated

with wisdom and knowledge; darkness

is associated with ignorance and a state

of mis-knowledge. This corresponds to

the two aspects of the path: there is the

method aspect, which includes such

practices as compassion and tolerance,

and the wisdom or knowledge aspect,

the insight penetrating the nature of

reality. It is the knowledge or wisdom

aspect of the path that is the true

antidote of dispelling ignorance.