Saturday, May 30, 2015

The Power of Emptiness?


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.

1 comment:

  1. Empty power works too, in other ways. Dual meaning - wonderful poem in a word, on a garbage truck!

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