A monk decides to meditate alone. Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes and begins to meditate.
After a few hours of unperturbed silence, he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his. With his eyes still closed, he feels his anger rising and, when he opens his eyes, he is ready to shout at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation.
But as he opens his eyes and sees that it is an empty boat, not tied up, floating in the middle of the lake ... At that moment, the monk achieves self-realisation and understands that anger is within him; it simply needs to hit an external object to provoke it.
After the incident, whenever he meets someone who irritates or provokes his anger, he remembers the other person is just an empty boat. Anger is within me.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. We all need to live life to its fullest each day, Worry about nothing, pray about everything!!!
