Buddha's teaching is a raft

Buddha said that his teachings are a raft. No more the truth than a raft is where we want to be. They are a means within the ocean of changes to travel to the other shore. Gate, Gate, Para Gate, Parasam Gate Bodhi Svaha. Go, Go, Go to the other shore quickly and be Enlightened.

The world is conditioned. This to say everything that exists comes about through events in the past that cause it and nurture its development into what it is. It then developes out of existence as new causes and changing conditions alter its form. Everything that exists has a form which separates it from other things and makes us go... there it is. Everything that has a form has a name and that which has a name has a form. Everything we can name is transient, created and destroyed in time, and there is nothing which exists which we cannot name.

This world of named things, of existences, is not real because those named things have come about by some other means which we do not name. We think and behave as though existing things have an separate existence in their own right and we treat them as what they are, not respecting that really they have only come about through other things which we chose to ignore - so blinded we are by the form which has apparently happened.

A delicious cake is only a delicious cake because it was made well from the right ingredients. But when we enjoy the cake we like to forget about the ingredients - the sugar, flour and butter which by themselves are not so delicious. That delicious form we get attracted to like moth around a flame wanting to believe, unable to resist the tantalising belief that it really is what it is like.

Buddha says to us this conditioned existence is what makes us suffer in the long run, but true it gives us pleasure as well. There must be a reason for ignorance! Sin, evil and ignorance only happen because we enjoy it! We must not believe the evidence of our enjoyments it is often wrong!

The rafts of teaching are fashioned from conditioned entities themselves. Made as attractive as possible to encourage people toward them. They then sail the trecherous ferry through the oceans of change and suffering to safe land where we might rest is saftey. Quite how they get there, quite where this mysterious land is only the navigator who has travelled this ocean before knows. But he assures us this shore is not like the high ocean of suffering. It is a place of eternal abidance in peace, unaffected by death, unaffected by life, unaffected by all the manners of suffering.

So Buddhism contains no truth. There is no truth in all the world to attain because truth itself is a form and it changes! If there were truths beyond question we would know them and there would be no arguments and disagreements since a very long time ago!