[Buddha-l] Acting on emptiness

Curt Steinmetz curt at cola.iges.org
Tue Oct 21 12:10:12 MDT 2008


Katherine Masis wrote:
> So all I have to do is take Sarah Palin apart and take comfort in the fact that there isn’t anything in her that makes her Sarah Palin.  Now I can rest easy.  But somehow, I have a nagging fear that this particular, impermanent collection of aggregates that we conventionally call Sarah-Palin-the-politician might be a heartbeat away from becoming what we conventionally call the-president-of-the-USA.  Yikes.
>   

Sometimes the "absolute view" amounts to little more than whistling past 
the graveyard.

Curt



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