My wife and I are spending 6 months in Berlin, where I am teaching computer science at the university. This morning on the way to the farmer's market, I saw this big, orange garbage truck and couldn't help but snap a picture. "Leerkraft" in German means literally "Empty Power", but in English you could also translate it as "the Power of Emptiness". Maybe there's a lesson there? Anyway, I'm sure the Berlin Sanitation Department didn't have Dharma in mind when they painted the word on the side of the truck.
Empty power works too, in other ways. Dual meaning - wonderful poem in a word, on a garbage truck!
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