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Empty Cup

For a few weeks now Jay Chou's "Qi Li Xiang" has been stuck in my noddle. Been years since I first listened to it but out of nowhere it abruptly keeps playing in my head-piece...

Anyway, I watched Forbidden Rule a few weeks back, the movie with Jackie Chan and Jet Lee.

There was one view in the movie that veritably struck me.

The protagonist was this kid who watched a lot of Kung-fu movies and was magically transported into another universe or another time. It was the cosmos or time of Sun Wukong the Monkey King.

Anyway, there was one view after Jackie Chan's letter agrees to trail the protagonist to acquire skill in Kung-fu. Jackie was session around a camp fire and the protagonist initiates some tiny talk. Something about what he wants to acquire skill in next.

He was saying he wants to acquire skill in, "Buddha Laurel" or "Tiger Knock" or "Rising Nail" (I'm just formation up the names at this sharp end), basically some of the matter that he watched from Kung-fu shows. He was so full of this matter in his head and was declamatory at how he wants to make one's self master of it.

The protagonist was at this sharp end holding a cup of moisten and drinking from it and the cup was full. Jackie's mark then said something analogous, "You're cup is full. How can you learn when you are already full? Empty your cup!"

It was a simile but the protagonist took it really and he threw not present the water in the cup. At this Jackie's letter sighs and says, "This is disconsolate," and he walks off.

That particular spectacle struck me because it jog the memory of me of how sometimes we think we be assured of everything about God and His love and there is no sweep to really actual feeling it; we're so full of head judgment that we miss out on having that everyday actual presentation with Him.

There's no real actual trial because everything is head comprehension. Our cup is already full.

How then can we "empty our cup"? For me it was when I started expecting. I had to tend hitherward to a point where I bear...

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