虚きょ舟しゅう

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.

• 「虚きょ舟しゅう」という言こと葉ばは、荘そう子しの寓ぐう話わに由ゆ来らいする。

  The word 'kyoshū' (empty boat) originates from a parable in the Zhuangzi.