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Originally Posted by Rain95
So in this context, the teaching can help one reach the goal, the other shore, but then one walks without word based teaching anymore. Awareness of the new shore itself, and an awareness and understanding of the different natures of the raft experience and the non-raft experience, or of the two different shores one can be on, is what one walks with. An understanding is carried, that has a relationship with current experience, no raft is carried. The raft did it's job and no longer has a relationship with experience.
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for as long as it exists a map always bears a relationship to the terrain it describes. But whether you need to continue to look at the map or even acknowledge its existance once you've gotten to the place you wisth to be is another question entirely.