quackademic on Nostr: The raft is not the shore. As someone who has spent my whole long life in finding ...

The raft is not the shore.

As someone who has spent my whole long life in finding ways to make sense of my experience I know how important a raft can be in helping us survive. I have assembled so many rafts. The ones I find useful now, I try to carry lightly.

Always the relevant question is not, ‘is this true?’. It’s ’is this useful?’ And ‘for what / where / when / who - & whose experience does this framing erase?’ And, when thinking in company, ‘does the person I’m talking to want to know about this?’ (Generally, no! 😅)

Nadine Levy on the Buddhist teaching of non-attachment to views, even Buddhist ones.

However cool they are, the map is never the territory.

#buddhism #epistemology #ethics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/18/learned-not-to-cling-to-my-beliefs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other