The Importance of Being Empty

The present moment confronts you with who you are, and there's nothing to hide behind. Most people are afraid to look at themselves in the mirror because they don't want to see their soul. Buddhism is always talking about emptying - it's about becoming empty. To make that useful, I have to empty out what's in there to fill it with what I want. But we can't do that because we don't wants to confront what that is as there's honesty there.