Daily Dharma: Crossing the River

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Today's Daily Dharma from Tricycle:

Crossing the River

When we study Buddhism, we learn about the view and the meditation as supports for encouraging us to let go of ego and just be with things as they are.... These supports are often likened to a raft. You need the raft to cross the river, to get to the other side; when you get over there, you leave the raft behind. That’s an interesting image, but in experience it’s more like the raft gives out on you in the middle of the river and you never really get to solid ground.

~ Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are

From Everyday Mind, a Tricycle book edited by Jean Smith

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