‘Α university professor came to see a Zen Master to ask him what Zen was really all about . He had done a lot of reading and was now following up to get the real story. The Zen Master invited the professor to sit down across the table from him and proceeded to serve him tea. He poured the tea into the guest’ s cup and, when the cup was full, he just kept pouring and pouring, and the tea ran out of the cup and over the saucer and all over the table and floor. The astonished professor yelled.
-‘What are you doing? Can’t you see the cup is already full ?’
-‘Yes i see’ , said the Zen master.
‘Similarly with your mind. How can you expect me to put anything in it when it is already so full of ideas and opinions ?’ ‘
When you are stuck with a business issue anyone around you may potentially be a ‘Zen Master’, able to give you a new perspective, a fresh ‘cup of tea’. Just make sure you let them by emptying your cup first.
