Quote Experts Needed!
There is a quote I read. It was actually paraphrased in a forum.
Here is the paraphrase
many beliefs should be used like a boat used to get across a stream - once you are across to pick up the boat and carry it with you would no longer help your journey it would make it more difficult.
The author of the paraphrased quote credited Krishnamurti, but I can't find anything in his works that is close to this. Does anybody know the actual quote and who wrote/said it?
Here is the paraphrase
many beliefs should be used like a boat used to get across a stream - once you are across to pick up the boat and carry it with you would no longer help your journey it would make it more difficult.
The author of the paraphrased quote credited Krishnamurti, but I can't find anything in his works that is close to this. Does anybody know the actual quote and who wrote/said it?
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Ryjkyjhttp://buddhasangha.blogspot.com/2009/10/swami-rama-quotes-on-spititual-guru-or.html
Third paragraph. Good luck "rational responder"!
rottenseed>> ^Ryjkyj:
http://buddhasangha.blogspot.com/2009/10/swami-rama-quotes
-on-spititual-guru-or.html
Third paragraph. Good luck "rational responder"!
FYI - I stumbled upon that page doing a search for "why am I such an asshole"
kymbosThis is madness. What if you want to go fishing in the boat after? Won't you feel quite the fool having just left it lying around at that river one time.
Quote should end with: "But at least tie the boat up and apply reasonable property rights before leaving".
ThrobbinGreat quote.
qualmKrishnamurti was paraphrasing the Simile of the Raft from the Pali Canon, Theravadin Buddhism; Alagaddupama Sutta, MN 22: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.than.html
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