minds production : the empty boat concept

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Taoism &The Empty Boat Concept

Taoism & Taoists

Taoism (or Daoism) is a philosophical, ethical, and religious tradition of Chinese origin that emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (also Romanized as Dao). The term Tao means "way", "path" or "principle", and can also be found in Chinese philosophies and religions other than Taoism. In Taoism, however, Tao denotes something that is both the source and the driving force behind everything that exists.

Taoism ceremony in Wudang Mountains

The Taoists have a famous teaching about an empty

boat.

You are in the middle of a river when an empty boat rams your boat.

Chances are you would not get angry at the empty boat but.....

if someone was in the boat it would be a whole different story.

You might become enraged at the person in the boat holding onto therudder.

The point of the story is that the person that cuts you off intraffic, the kids that bullied you as a child, the negative andhurtful comments someone has made about you are all empty, rudderless boats.

They have no other choice but to act as they did because of their own unexamined wounds, and they did not know what they were doing and had little control over it.

People who are not kind have no control of their actions and are unconsciously driven by their pain.

So …..If we can’t avoid those who

affects us negatively….

Consider them as empty boats…..And Deal With

them

The Taoists have a famous teaching about an empty

boat.

Communicate !!

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