The Teaching Is Like a Raft That Carries You to the Other Shore

Bikus is a term that's used in buddhism when you're talking about the times of the buddha. Don't mistake it for the truth itself, he says. The teaching is like a raft that carries you to the other shore. An intelligent person would not carry the raft around on his head after making it across and beyond birth and death. And this can be applicable in our everyday lives.