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118 - Revisiting The Parable Of The Raft

Secular Buddhism

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What Are the Rafts in Your Life?

i'm trying to correlate all these concept ideas into one single frame of thought, which is the raft. What are the rafts in your life? And i would consider thinking that the raft is every single tool. Whether it's the meditation cushion that you sit on or the deeply held conviction that you have of some view or belief, they're still just tools. Even our thoughts and words are just tools. Now, language is a tool, allan watt said. We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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