The Ancient Sages talk of many different paths, but that they all ultimately lead to the same one Truth. It's impossible to do otherwise. The Truth is the Truth.
Each path can be likened to a raft to help us cross a river to the other side.
Once we have crossed, we are then supposed to leave the raft and continue on our way. It has done its job.
The trouble is, we can become too attached to our raft and want to keep carrying it on our back, as a burden. Even worst is when we never start our crossing at all but build a beautiful dwelling on our raft to stay. Some even measure the raft and know exactly all its dimensions and like to spend all their time painting it pretty colours and going nowhere.
I like the other analogy of 'pointing a finger to the moon'. Here the problem is getting too distracted and fixed on the finger, and not even seeing the moon.
But it is not that easy, as it can be very comforting to have a good raft sometimes, and letting go can sometimes be scary?
