The Empty Cup

Once upon a time there lived a man who always visited many Saints and great masters to acquire knowledge, for his surprise he understands that the basic truth in life is same and simple but presented in many ways.

Once he visited a great saint,he decided to ask a question “ why suffering exist in the world in-spite the truth in life being very simple ?”

Being an expertise the master knows this can be learned only through some practical job and asked the man to get a cup of coffee ☕️ for him.

The curious man appeared with a coffee cup and served that to the master, after having the coffee the master asked the man to serve some tea in same cup, then the man staring at the cup said “ let me clean it “.

The master then says apply same to your life. 'Empty your cup' always before you serve something, life is an empty cup my dear , which needs to be cleaned once we used it, if not the traces of previous servings would spoil the taste of freshly served one’s.!!!!!

Every moment you need to look into life with empty mind without any prefixes and expectations, which are causing suffering and chaos.

Everyday cleansing of our emotions and thoughts 💭 can make great difference and help us to explore the life.

Lighter and cleaner the mind, lesser is the suffering!!!!


A very short story which came into my mind, but definitely it would create big change in your life.