How full is your teacup?

I found this clever tale at The Modern Goddess Online.

In Zen Buddhism, there is a famous story about a businessman and a Zen master.  The businessman desires to become enlightened, so he visits the Zen master.  The Zen master offers the businessman tea.  He pours the tea into the cup and then keeps pouring until the tea is splashing on the floor.

The businessman becomes distraught and yells, “What are you doing?!”

The Zen master calmly replies, “This cup is like your mind: It is too full.  It must be emptied first before you can attain enlightenment.”

Simple tales like this one can carry a very powerful and clear message, can’t they?   How full is your mind?  If it is like mine, it is full of useless bits of data, things I should have remembered but didn’t, shopping lists, time reminders and so on.  Is it any wonder that I am not ‘enlightened’?

How full is your teacup?