Hi TeaK

I suspect we are speaking past each other.  The question I asked about When does the seeker become a finder?  How we can know for sure if we’ve forgiven and let go ? Was a question I was asking you.  I have had my experience that answered that for me, which after failing badly to explain in words suspected such a experience was one of those that could disappear when ‘explained’.  So best to leave it at that

In this context ‘clinging to the raft’ might be clinging to ‘being a seeker’  forgetting that the goal of a seeker is to find and then take what they find and make it theirs. If you have ever met someone adducted to self-help, picking at wounds so that the scar can never fully form and close the wound,  you may have met a person that is clinging to the raft, a label, a wound, a unhealthy relationship, unskillful story…  Anything to avoid entering into the woods and continuing the journey.