The Buddha, in telling of this very insight, likened the self to a chariot, a concept that arises when wheels, platform, yoke, and so on are put together—but which does not exist save as these parts in combination. To update the metaphor, there is no “car” in the tires, nor the dashboard or the steel shell of its body—but put all these together with the multitude of other parts, and what we think of as a car manifests.
