The Parable of an Empty Boat

Wednesday 19 July, 2017

Communicating with the student, the master said: in my youth I loved spending time on the water, swimming in a boat. I liked to be alone and time passed by unnoticed when I was on the lake.

Once I was in meditation sitting in my boat. I had a good mood on this amazing night. But at one point another boat hit my boat, which was empty and simply floated with the flow.

I felt angry and opened my eyes to bring down my anger at the man who hit my boat. But to my surprise there was no limit when I saw that the other boat was absolutely empty!

My anger and anger had nowhere to go. And all I could do was to start concentrating again and get a better look at my feelings.

At that moment I made an important awareness. An empty boat, a simple piece of wood, floating on the water, became my teacher. After this incident, if something upset me or someone tried to offend me, I smiled and said that this boat was empty too, and, closing my eyes, remembered that incident on the lake.

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