Is your Cup Running over? Some Zen advice

The following is from my Good firend Tony Michalski, owner of Kallisti Publishing and a regular on our Talk Show discussing The Master Key and Think & Grow Rich

In the beginning of The Master Key Workbook
(www.masterkeyworkbook.com), I included a Zen story that I really enjoy entitled "A Cup of Tea."
Here is the story:

A Japanese master received a university professor who came to inquire
about Zen. The master served tea. He poured the professor's cup ful, and
then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could
no longer restrain himself. "It's over-full! No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," said the master, "you are full of your own opinions
and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your
cup?"

This tale illustrates to me the importance of never thinking you know
it all. Sometimes, we have to take the back seat and let somebody
instruct us. Sometimes, we have to stop comparing everything with what we
KNOW and look at it anew--with a fresh and clean palate. How else can we
grow?

Clear your mind and look at the things around you. Take nothing for
granted. Empty your cup!

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