Empty Your Cup First

You might be curious what that means to empty your cup.? than you will be able to understand after reading this article

Its a story of famous Japanese Zen Master and a university professor . that tells us very beautiful and life time message in a very interesting way.

He comes to the Zen master to learn new things about Zen Buddhism Practices as he was very interested in it . As he Reached to Zen Masters place one of Zen Master student took him to his room.
After telling the reason of his visit to Zen Master , Zen Master offered for a cup of tea and asked his to tell something about himself . Zen Maser started pouring Tea while the professor begin to tell him one by one about his achievements, knowledge, degrees , his research works and every thing that he know and while the professor was telling about himself the master started to pour hot tea into the cup, slowly and slowly even the cup was fulll but he didn't stop . The professor was also watching could not stand when it begin to spill out of the cup and said 'Are you blind that you can't see the cup is full and begin to overflow.'

At this point the Zen Master Said:

'This cup is you so How can You suppose Me to Teach You more.'

This was the Sentence that change his entire Way of Thinking.
As from this story the MESSAGES OR MORAL That;

• Even though you are professor, teacher, doctor, CEO of company means to say that you have vast amount of knowledge and wanted to learn more you have to empty your-self, if you know every thing and are full of knowledge and wants to learn more than definitely the result will be similar to the tea that started spilling after the cup became full.
• we don't have to wrapped up our selves to the certain way of thinking as the professor limited his thought to his achievement without thinking that this in this way he would stop the opportunities of new experiences and knowledge.
• A Master is always a Master even though you have full knowledge of thing but you will still lack in some way than a Master.
• Open up your self to the new things, learning and Learn that art of Unknowing which is Empty Your Cup.
• You must not ignore that fact that the person whom you ae talking to may have more achievement that you. Most of the time we do these type of mistake by forgetting or ignoring this fact that may result in embarrassment, mortification or ignominy.
• And one other thing that we should also remember that to be patience, humble in communication, give chance to other to talk not only this make good impression but also you can learn a lot form that person or people.
  There is no need to feel bad or get embarrassed that you don't know bout any thing that is new and that is not thought during you academic years because
  

So empty your cup and learn new things that you want to know.

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