> Buddhist teachers consciously make use of metaphors, abstractions and practices that aren't necessarily true, but might aid a particular audience in understan

> Buddhist teachers consciously make use of metaphors, abstractions and practices that aren't necessarily true, but might aid a particular audience in understanding a difficult concept. You're describing conceptual metaphors, which are actually extremely interesting when it comes to making sense of cognition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/teaching-me-softly http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/teaching-me-softly