Ateneo Professional School
Makati City
November 4, 2015
As I was starting my career in business, and studying the Japanese system of management and philosophy, the emphasis for trainees and students was sunnao - emptying your cup/mind. Little did I know that this was Buddhist/Socratic philosophy at its best.
"The purpose of education is replace an empty mind with an open one" By Malcolm Forbes
Emptiness of ones emotion and mind are keys to understanding the realities of this world. Thus we may be prisoners of the barrage of advertising, so we cant quit being a shopaholic. Or we may be brainwashed by some people to be a prisoner of unreality.
Thus if we empty our mind, we accept the fact that there can be both good and bad on this earth; and that we are liberated from trite and little things that stop our growth. Our desire for material things anchor us and prevent us from moving on. This may be the same as ingenuity in Chris Lowney, the sense of being indifferent, of being detached from this world. And hence, living with one foot raised, ready to take on new challenges of this world.
From Journal of Yoga on Socrates and Buddha
