Santa Clara Meditation Column – If You Are An Empty Boat
“If a man is crossing a river by boat and an empty boat comes and hits his boat, no matter how bad his personality is, he will not get angry.
But if there is a man in the boat, the boatman will yell at him to avoid his boat.
But if he doesn’t hear it, the boatman will shout again and start to curse at him even louder.
All this happens because there’s someone in the boat.
If the boat was empty, he wouldn’t shout and wouldn’t be angry.
When you cross the river of the world, if you can empty your boat, no one will confront you.
No one will hurt you.“
This is the story of an empty boat, which was introduced in one of the chapters of Chuangzi.
A man named Shinamja wrote his advice to King Rho.
That’s right.
It’ll lighten up when it is emptied. Life is free.
But what needs to be emptied is not just wealth or power.
There may also be vague expectations, fears, loneliness, among other things.
What should I empty?
No one knows.
But I know the mind that must be emptied.
I know this.
