10-02-2015, 12:03 AM
I think `empty boat' in these situations.
It's a Zen/Tao concept:
If you're in your boat and another boat hit yours, if there was a person in the boat, you would be angry about that person and look for a confrontation.
If it was just an empty boat, drifting around, well, you wouldn't like it, but you wouldn't be so angry as there is nobody to oppose.
So in those situations I say to myself, it's just an empty boat, nothing really important happend, just go on.
You can google for `zen empty boat'.
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream...
It's a Zen/Tao concept:
If you're in your boat and another boat hit yours, if there was a person in the boat, you would be angry about that person and look for a confrontation.
If it was just an empty boat, drifting around, well, you wouldn't like it, but you wouldn't be so angry as there is nobody to oppose.
So in those situations I say to myself, it's just an empty boat, nothing really important happend, just go on.
You can google for `zen empty boat'.
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream...
