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Once a Zen master was conversing with a professor of philosophy.
Serving tea, the master filled his visitor's cup, and kept pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could restrain himself no longer: "Stop!
The cup is over full, no more will go in." Master said: "Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."
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Empty the cup???? What cup?? Which cup??
Yes, Empty the cup! The cup of your heart. There are so many dirty things in our cup. We have space for everything.
We have hate..we have pride..we have prestige too.. and criticism and jealousy and every thing..
We can not take any thing lightly. We often hear people saying...How did that person did this to me? How could he say this to me? I will show him what I am and who I am? And then we start to hate..We think to take revenge..
The big "I" in us keeps us busy in this and makes itself more bigger. And then it becomes so bigger that we forget a beautiful side of us. But how can we feel it? How can we realize the beautiful inside when there is no space for it.
That is why empty the cup!!
Serving tea, the master filled his visitor's cup, and kept pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could restrain himself no longer: "Stop!
The cup is over full, no more will go in." Master said: "Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."
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Empty the cup???? What cup?? Which cup??
Yes, Empty the cup! The cup of your heart. There are so many dirty things in our cup. We have space for everything.
We have hate..we have pride..we have prestige too.. and criticism and jealousy and every thing..
We can not take any thing lightly. We often hear people saying...How did that person did this to me? How could he say this to me? I will show him what I am and who I am? And then we start to hate..We think to take revenge..
The big "I" in us keeps us busy in this and makes itself more bigger. And then it becomes so bigger that we forget a beautiful side of us. But how can we feel it? How can we realize the beautiful inside when there is no space for it.
That is why empty the cup!!
Let the beautiful side of yours grow to the infinite!!!
