The Tools of Buddhism

In buddhism, there are a lot of tools that we have. I was thinking about this again, correlating the walking sticks, the certain brand of shirts that we were wearinge hiking boots. Now these are tools for hiking. And i think where this becomes a deeper concept is how i approach practising buddhism. There's a reason why the tools there, but you don't need the tool. Meditation itself, like these are all tools. For me, it was helpful to transition that thought of, what are these things that i encounter in my buddhist practice? Some of em would kind of turn me off, cause it's like, ah, i don't