At the end of the road you will find your self in the boat that has been dragged onto the shore, hesitant to leave it.

It has been your loyal companion and home for so long. I am of course talking about the boat that was to bring you to the other side. Buddhism.

When reaching some level of enlightenment and understanding you naturally become deeply grateful for what Buddhism has brought to your life.

And there are many places in the literature that warns of getting attached to the boat. At the end you must let go of Buddhism as well, to fully become a Buddhist.

It is like the famous painting of a pipe, where the plague below says “this is not a pipe”, and people may look confounded because to them it looks like a pipe, even though it is a painting.

And so, we must not confuse being a Buddhist with Buddhism. Buddhism being the vehicle and not the state.

Finding your self in that boat-on-shore situation you can turn to U.G. Krishnamurti. He will dispel any such attachments at once.