Today in a comment to a friend's facebook post, I wrote the following:
there is no such thing as a connected thing -- because no thing exists as a thing unto itself. There are only interconnections. Such is the Buddha's teaching of emptiness.
Afterwards while tiling the floor I wondered whether I might better have written, "there is only interconnection," in the singular.
Then the negations with which Nagarjuna begins MMK came back to me:
anekartham ananartham
Not singular in its meaning, not plural.
there is no such thing as a connected thing -- because no thing exists as a thing unto itself. There are only interconnections. Such is the Buddha's teaching of emptiness.
Afterwards while tiling the floor I wondered whether I might better have written, "there is only interconnection," in the singular.
Then the negations with which Nagarjuna begins MMK came back to me:
anekartham ananartham
Not singular in its meaning, not plural.
