{"id":2055,"date":"2018-12-14T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2021-09-12T00:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T22:04:49","slug":"praznata-lodka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/praznata-lodka\/","title":{"rendered":"The empty boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Zen master said, \u201cWhen I was young, I loved to go boating. I had a small boat and I was sailing on the lake alone. I could stay there for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Once I sat with my eyes closed and meditated. It was a wonderful night. A boat was drifting downstream and bumped into mine. Anger rose in me. I opened my eyes and was about to curse the person who disturbed me, but I saw that the boat was empty.<\/p>\n<p>I had no one to direct my anger at. I had no choice but to close my eyes and start looking at my anger. The moment I saw him, I took the first step on my Path. In that quiet night, I drew closer to my inner center.<\/p>\n<p>The empty boat became my teacher. From then on, if someone tried to insult me and I got angry, I laughed and said to myself:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 This boat is also empty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I would close my eyes and go inward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/milenagoleva.com\/kolekciya-meditacii\/\"><strong>And if you want to take the first step towards meditation - see here the magnificent collection of author&#039;s guided meditations, created with great love by Milena Goleva<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful short parable about how to transform our anger.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[43,13,62,52,35],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-madrost","category-pat-kam-shtastieto","tag-43","tag-13","tag-62","tag-52","tag-35"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flow.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}