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Saturday, July 02, 2011 - ore 20:57

So happy
(categoria: " Vita Quotidiana ")

There is an old story about a
student who comes to a master and asks him
to teach him. The master invites the student
to sit with him and have tea. While they are
sitting the master starts to converse with the
eager young student. But every time the
master starts to explain a point the student
would interrupt him and say, Oh I know
that, I do this when that happens, or I dont
have that problem because Soon the
master stopped talking and picked up the
teapot. He began pouring tea into the
students cup, as the cup filled he continued
pouring until the cup overflowed and spilled
out. The student shouted stop! It is enough
my cup is full! With that the old master
smiled and replied, yes your cup is full,
therefore I can teach you nothing until you
empty your cup.
The moral of the story should be
clear. The student had an un-teachable
attitude. Instead of listening to the master he
wanted to show how much he already knew.
He was not open to learning anything new
about what he believed he had already
learned. His cup of knowledge was full. He
had to empty that cup before he could learn
Copyright  Scott Baker 2000 13
from the new master. Emptying your cup
does not mean you must give up all you
have learned, forget all that you know. That
would be absurd. To empty you cup simply
means to adapt a teachable attitude. To put
what you know about something out of your
mind and listen to a new explanation, a new
insight.

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