Emptying your boat means to me to be independent and focus on my being whole, not make myself like a robot dependent on anyone or anything else for how I am. I think of simple as basic. I'm definitely not always simple though I have. long seen the wisdom of being simple. I don't have a problem with distinction that comes without trying to attain it. If it happens, I like when I let it come and go. There is wisdom in not trying to attain distinction, which trying is manipulative and makes a person dependent on getting it. Trying to attain distinction like any goal-directed trying goes into your boat so that your boat is no longer empty and you are encumbered and less free and independent. What helps me avoid judgment is to let judgment come and go, not hold onto it and nurture it, not put it into my boat, and as I do that I have less judgments.
On Nov 2, 2023 David Doane wrote :