Glass Full?

Ever get the question (a glass with water filled to the halfway mark), "Is this glass half full or half empty?" The answer speaks to the person's view or perception to the world but what if the answer was, "Technically the glass is always full."

Waxing philosophical from a martial art perspective or more accurately a Taoist, Buddhist, Shintoist, Zen view where the void, the emptiness, the area between things is also filling up those spaces. Even the vacuum of space is filling the space between planets, asteroids, stars, suns, etc. which means it is not empty technically.

The glass is always filled with something be it water, milk, beer or just air. It drops back to the quote attributed to Shimabuku Tatsuo Sensei at a late night gathering of karate-ka drinking and generally socializing, "all bottles are good, they all serve a purpose." This means that although the beer or ammori is gone from the bottle the bottle still can serve a purpose holding the air that took control of the space within when the drink was removed. That space simply waits for a purpose depending on what it is refilled with ..... ;-)

So the next time someone asks the question simply say, "it is not half full or half empty, it is always full." Guess it is a matter of how one's "sees" it.