This boat is also empty (№ 242599)

Lin-Tzu said:
When I was young, I liked to swim on the boat. I had a little boat: alone, I went to swim in the lake and could stay hours there.
Once I was sitting with my eyes closed and meditated. Was a great night. Kind of an empty boat adrift and blew my. I felt anger! I opened my eyes and was about to curse that bothered me, but I saw that the boat was empty.
My anger had nowhere to move. Who I was then? I had nothing to do but to close your eyes and begin to look closely to his anger. In that moment, when I saw it, I took the first step on my Way.
In this quiet night I went to the center within yourself. Empty boat became my teacher. Since then, if someone tried to hurt me and I was raised anger, I laughed and said:
- This boat is also empty.
I closed my eyes and went inward...