[Buddha-l] I got plenty o' nothing

[Michael LaTorra]

Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
>
> A commonly encountered statement of the first truth of the nobles is
> sarva.m du.hkham. That means everything is unsatisfactory. I reckon that
> is logically equivalent to "nothing is satisfying."

This also suggests that nothing is the thing will satisfy us (reification
of emptiness?). So let's get some! As the song lyric from "Porgy and Bess"
goes: "I got plenty o' nothing and nothing's plenty for me."


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Regards,
Michael LaTorra
College Associate Professor
Department of English

New Mexico State University
MSC 3E, PO Box 30001
Las Cruces, NM 88003

mlatorra at nmsu.edu