re: Why did the gardener get fired?

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the empty vessel

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Depends on the view ...

Shakespeare said "The empty vessel makes the loudest sound" to imply silence carries more weight than sound but if this is true, why is watching a Gary Cooper movie as a male (no homo) so difficult?

In Western thought at least 500 years ago it seemed to mean those with the least knowledge spoke the most or the loudest in volume. This seems like the Political Board.

With Buddha, the phrase is revealing in his teaching
There is a story in the Buddhist canon which tells us of a person rowing a boat across a very large lake. It is just before sunrise and there is a heavy fog. A fog so thick that the rower cannot see past the bow of his own row boat. Suddenly there is a SLAM and he has run into another boat head on. Our boatman is furious and begins yelling and screaming obscenities at the other boat. As he rows alongside, his angers dissipates as he realizes the boat he has run into is abandoned. There is no one there to get angry at, and thus…his anger subsides.

In the West the thought goes back to Plato but what did he mean in making the statement may be lost to time.




While I am an old school Catholic (pre Vatican II) I do find similarity in the monastic life of both the East and the West and may defer to Taoism and their concept of the "Uncarved Block" and some would claim both Winnie the Pooh (pre Disney) and Homer Simpson (especially the early years when Conan O'Brien was still writing the scripts) are examples of this train of thought.

Course, it could just mean the beer bottle is empty and time to get another cold one from the fridge.