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“When you have reached the opposite shore, you do not carry the raft on your back, but leave it behind. There is something here which applies not only to the mere handful of people who might be said to have reached the opposite shore, but to most of us. To carry out the metaphor a little: if you are going to cross the river, you must make haste, for if you dally on the raft, the current will carry you downstream, and out to the ocean-and then you will be stuck on the raft forever. And it is so easy to get stuck-on the raft, on religion, on psychotherapy, on philosophy. To use another Buddhist simile: The doctrine is like a finger pointing at the moon, and one must take care not to mistake the finger for the moon."

— Alan Watts nostr:note1kt3lfm8f3x4huwh4chn2h66rg2jvhc2k89yp08pwgh2z5dzgdtysgwp223