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As in the Buddha's famous parable of the raft, Buddhism is s means to an end and not an end in itself. For Nanavira* even the terms "Buddhism" and "Buddhist" carry "a slightly displeasing air about them—they are too much like labels one sticks on the outside of packages regardless of what the packages contain."

~Stephen Batchelor, in Secular Buddhism

*Ñāṇavīra Thera (born Harold Edward Musson; 5 January 1920 – 5 July 1965) was an English Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in 1950 in Sri Lanka. He is known as the author of Notes on Dhamma and his letters in one volume titled Clearing the Path.