noun
empty boat
A classical literary term for an empty, drifting boat, often used metaphorically in Daoist or Zen writings to symbolize a mind free of attachments or a vessel of emptiness.
「虚舟」という言葉は、荘子の寓話に由来する。
The word 'kyoshū' (empty boat) originates from a parable in the Zhuangzi.