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The Empty Boat - A Moral Story
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00:00A monk decides to meditate alone, away from his monastery.
00:05He takes his boat out to the middle of the lake, moves it there, closes his eyes and begins his meditation.
00:10After a few hours of undisturbed silence, he suddenly feels the bump of another boat colliding with his own.
00:16With his eyes still closed, he senses his anger rising, and by the time he opens his eyes, he is ready to scream at the boatman who dared disturb his meditation.
00:33But when he opens his eyes, he sees it is an empty boat that had probably got untethered and floated to the middle of the lake.
00:42At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization, and understands that the anger is within him, it merely needs the bump of an external object to provoke it out of him.
00:51From then on, whenever he came across someone who irritated him or provoked him to anger, he reminded himself, the other person is merely an empty boat.
00:59The anger is within me, in reality, we all have the anger within us, all the time, all it needs is someone, like the empty boat, to provoke it.
01:12We'll be right back to him and he's with a very good idea and he says, if there's a großen boat just to go out of him, he said, hit him.
01:17He said, why am i the most wanted to go out of the boat?
01:21How much does he even learn to go out of his boat?
01:24I think this one's about the boat is a bit, he said, he said to get a little full volt.
01:29Now let's go out of his boat with my boat, he said this one...
01:31How many will he be, old?
01:33I'll talk about these two pounds in the boat.
01:35How many of his boat do you want?
01:36How many people do you want to go out of my boat?

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