A Bridge to Awakening
2 min readAug 10, 2020
The Buddha liked metaphors of crossing bodies of water to explain what he was on about.
It’s an apt metaphor. Depending on the body of water, one can see the other side, of a river, for example, and decide to try to cross because one believes that the other side is preferable to this side. The Buddha, and modern Buddhist teachers, like to use the image of a raft as the vehicle to carry us from this side of the river to that…
