The story revitalizes the 3000 years old Taoist message on self-realization.Īt first, I thought anger is an emotion natural to the human being. The story is derived from a well known Zen anecdote based on Stories from Chuang Tzu a Chinese Mystic. I first happened to read the above Monk Short story on Quora as I was looking for answers on why one get frustrated by others actions. The anger lies inside me.” Lessons on Self-Realization Going forward if he happened to come across any circumstance or a person who caused him anger – he reminded himself, “Others are merely an empty boat. Stage 2: Lessons from The Monk Short StoryĪs a result, the Buddhist Monk’s life was transformed. All one needs is a bump of an external source to trigger or provoke it out of him. Thereafter, he instantly understood that anger lies within himself. It was at this very moment that the Buddhist Monk achieved self-realization. The boat next to him was empty and probably floated on its own to his boat in the middle of the lake. The anger rising in him made him open his eyes and was about to shout at the boatman who disturbed his meditation. But, felt a sense of anger rising within him because he was disturbed.
He did not want his meditation to get interrupted, therefore kept his eyes shut. Suddenly, he felt a jolt of another boat colliding with his boat. He was silently meditating for a couple of hours with no sound other than the gentle ripple, of the almost still water. While sitting on his small boat, the Buddhist Monk closed his eyes and started meditation. Finally, he reached the banks of the lake, rowed a boat and moored it in the middle of the lake. He walked barefooted for a few hours on a muddy trail.
Thus, he woke up at the crack of dawn and headed towards a distant lake miles away from his monastery. He took it on himself to meditate in a faraway place from his monastery, where there was no other human being. There was a monk who lived in a monastery. Buddhist Monk Short Story: The Empty Boat Story – Journey Begins
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