Re: [MD] horse reviewing bennett

2010-05-03 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
A word of thanks to you Horse for keeping this group going and the time taken to ensure a conducive environment for the free flowing dynamic discussions. I On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Horse ho...@darkstar.uk.net wrote: Hi John JB has resigned from the list as he stated, along with the

Re: [MD] e: Reading Comprehension

2010-05-06 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Arlo, succintly put, and your three paragraphs accurately captures our collective and total disdain for an approach and worldview which is inherently arrogant and civilisationally hegemonic. Defintely not the way to go. Best Regards, Khoo. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Arlo Bensinger

Re: [MD] How to Understand the MOQ

2010-05-19 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hi Steve, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Steven Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.comwrote: Step 1: Read ZAMM and get excited about Quality Step 2: Read Lila and get confused about Quality but keep the sense that something really exciting is going on. Step 3: Come to moq.org and get further

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-21 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
. A decade on MD seems a long time, but nothing if seen across thousands and thousands of lifetimes. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss

Re: [MD] Babylonian intellectuals

2010-07-18 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
by the clash of the rhetorical swords. You stay keen and sharp by your own vigilance for the real and good. This state of mind does not come in the absence of opponents and detractors who distract by imposing themselves on you. Thats all they do and want to do. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing

Re: [MD] RE Khoo Hock Aun

2010-07-19 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hi Adrie, Thanks for the link. Hawking is always good for the soul. Here is a link on negative energy: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/negativeenergy/negativeenergy.htm Rgds Khoo Hock Aun On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Fam. Kintziger-Karaca kintziger_kar...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [MD] Babylonian intellectuals

2010-07-25 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
such that they are not dominated by SOM, but where other intellectual patterns have taken hold. Thank you. Khoo Hock Aun On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Mary marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: Nah. Read that post again. Khoo can't stand the thought that the Intellectual Level is SOM because he wants to think

Re: [MD] Babylonian intellectuals

2010-07-26 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
and the other is unbounded creativity. One is vicarious experience and the other direct experience. One resides in the intellectual level and the other transcends it. One is an explanation for Reality and the other is Reality. I am afraid that is all I have time for, for now. Rgds Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss

Re: [MD] Re Arlo

2010-07-29 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
to attack each other personally, the negative patterns replicate with each post and there will be no end to the melee. I suppose we can begin by all agreeing that because the other guy did it is not a justification for ad hominen attacks and the like. Cut out the rot at the root. Best regards Khoo Hock

Re: [MD] Babylonian intellectuals

2010-07-31 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
The Metaphysics of the Shoe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FAPLMLeSDofeature=player_embedded On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:30 PM, David Thomas combinedeffo...@earthlink.net wrote: On 7/31/10 9:13 AM, Mary marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any difference between the way a Westerner

Re: [MD] Babylonian intellectuals

2010-07-31 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
[Dave] Even though shoes don't make the Buddha, I'm pretty sure that the Dali Lama prancing around in Lady GaGa shoes would break up the sessen:-) Khoo: Now why does Tim Curry and the Rocky Horror Picture Show come to mind ? Transcendantal Transylvannia ! Lets do the time warp again

Re: [MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

2010-01-21 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
the difference. Best Regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/

Re: [MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

2010-01-23 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
. Samsara is the wheel of rebirth, the 31 planes of existence where all interdependent origination takes place, where all patterns form, from the inorganic, biological, social to the intellectual levels (in Pirsigian terms) and dissolve again. Thank you Best Regards Khoo Hock Aun MOQ.ORG http

Re: [MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

2010-01-24 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
! There is a gem of a piece on Ruddy at http://www.f.waseda.jp/buda/texts/ballad.html. Enjoy! Best regards Khoo Hock Aun On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:38 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hello Khoo, I do not understand why Bo says such things. I think/hope/believe/feel the MoQ a bridge between

Re: [MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

2010-01-24 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
in a world they all make up for me : ) Seriously, If we all get caught in a pissing competition about who gets the best word in then all we get is a lot of urine in the air ! Afraid so and best regards Khoo Hock Aun On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:19 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Greetings Khoo

Re: [MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

2010-01-24 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
contest you think... On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Khoo Hock Aun wrote: Hi Marsha, There is a typo there which Mark did not intend. It should actually read: We are what we think All that we are arises with our thoughts... With our thoughts we make However, Its not really important

Re: [MD] Intellect's Symposium

2010-01-24 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
not have built the necessary instruments for a proper check and balance. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:24 AM, David Thomas combinedeffo...@earthlink.net wrote: Mary, Can you guess where this is going? :) Yes, absolutely. I read your other post to Khoo already

Re: [MD] Intellect's Symposium

2010-01-31 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Bo, the Boddhisatva, Tell us, how do you envisage such a western buddhism and how would it work ? How different is it from its Eastern cousin. Now that you have come out and suggested it, we would like to hear it from you. Please enlighten us. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun The first step down

Re: [MD] Muslim Mechanisms

2010-01-31 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Andre I was just wondering if China had demanded royalties for all the intellectual property rights to gunpowder, ice-cream, spaghetti and other what not that Marco Polo took from China and introduced to the West, how much would that amount to now ? Best Regards Khoo Hock Aun On Sun, Jan 31

Re: [MD] Muslim Mechanisms

2010-02-02 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hi Dave, *Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?* KHA previously said: The focus was on the individual owning his innovations and inventions and the idea of copyright from music to art and literature; all works of the intellect; overtherwise known as intellectual property. Dave

[MD] Bo’s Western Buddhism (was Intellect's Symposium)

2010-02-03 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Khoo on 1 Feb: Bo, the Boddhisatva, Bo replied on 2 Feb: Thanks for the new rank but too long hours and no pay ;-) Khoo: But that is the most exalted position an Eastern Buddhist may attain; plus since you have now made a breakthrough for the West, you surely have the adulation of your many

Re: [MD] Muslim Mechanisms

2010-02-03 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/

[MD] Buddhism and Nothingness

2010-02-06 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
over different things. And all argumentation over what is meant in the passages of ZAMM or LILA is such a expenditure of energy. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:52 PM, markhsmit markhs...@aol.com wrote: Hi Bo, A possible relationship between MoQ and Buddhism

Re: [MD] Bo’s Western Buddhism (was Intellect's Symposium)

2010-02-06 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
. When you are fresh and ready, come back with the answers, especially the ones from my first post. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss

Re: [MD] Buddhism and Nothingness

2010-02-11 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
and services by an egocentric society conceals an deep emptiness, then the West deserves compassion from Buddhists, not scorn. Best Regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org

Re: [MD] Buddhism and Nothingness

2010-02-18 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
that present themselves and to choose correctly so that we may find liberation: “The true, profound, essential secret is to enter into the supreme state of equilibrium in which there is no good or bad, acceptance or rejection, passion or aggression”. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-19 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
! Your constant and continued disputation displays you live in the past entangled by static dogma and therefore unable to progress forward. I still await your answers on the other thread on Bo's Western Buddhism. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http

Re: [MD] Buddhism and Nothingness

2010-02-20 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hi John, Here's a couple of versions and the lyrics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AIRBpW1drE http://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/jesuschristsuperstar/superstar.htm VOICE OF JUDAS Every time I look at you I don't understand Why you let the things you did get so out of hand. You'd have managed

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-20 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
hope this really clears it up for you, Platt. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-20 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Platt, Understanding the MOQ better than anyone else does not make it any more right for getting on a high horse either. Rgds, Khoo On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:39 AM, platthol...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Andre, This screed is all well and good, but you have failed to show that you understand the

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-20 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
wrote of the MOQ in Lila. Do you really think so ? I really want to know. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-21 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.” Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-21 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Platt, Platt to Andre: What the majority believe is hardly the test of truth, and an author may be blind to his mistakes. I don't always agree with Bo, but on the advice of Pirsig himself I look for contrarians who, like the brujo, are actively pursuing a Dynamic goal. Bo fits the bill.

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-21 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
of your questions and my questions to you of them were meant for Bo to answer. So we will wait for that. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss

Re: [MD] Buddhism and Nothingness

2010-02-21 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-21 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
quote perhaps: “To obtain satori, one must let go of the ego. To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.” Best Regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-22 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
to be ? Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-23 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
, the mainstream from my post on this thread about hippies. My question to you actually referred to the MOQ. Where do you see the centre of the MOQ to be. Is your position to the left or right of it ? As you see it. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-23 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
him to his destination. Having arrived, all choices are therefore rather irrelevant. Platt: I'm all ears. Maybe to begin we can resolve this contradiction: We're at once separate but never apart. Khoo: I am sorry, but where does this appear in either ZAMM or LILA ? Best regards Khoo Hock Aun

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-23 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
explanation, it's not important. Or rather, the seeming paradox is solved by acknowledging it as perhaps interesting to logicians but essentially specious. Thanks again, Platt On 23 Feb 2010 at 19:11, Khoo Hock Aun wrote: Hi Platt, In reference to Shido Bunan's Zen quote: Die

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-23 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Yo Platt, Khoo: By the way, since you say my explanations have supported Bo's contentions, what's the colour of the number 3? Platt: Chartreuse. :-) Khoo: Hah, Is that the colour of your MOQ or the lenses you wear ? They make for a nice cool pair of shades though, 8-) thanks. Best regards

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-24 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
/community-oriented which can complement and can be complemented by the Western philosophic tradition which is essentially abstraction / substance/ objects/individuals-oriented. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-24 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Aquinas – and to an understanding of logic that helped the discipline of mathematics to survive and, slowly, thrive again in the Western countries. Best Regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org

Re: [MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

2010-02-24 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
, webinar or face to face physical meeting ? How many of you fancy a trip to Asia this fall? : ) Best regards Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-17 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
of the MOQ in this discussion. Thank you. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:15 AM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.comwrote: The MOQ rejects the Cartesian self as a ridiculous fiction and replaces that concept of the self with the MOQ's concept of the self as a complex

Re: [MD] Dancing

2010-08-16 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Shall we dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G553_oRp-o On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:36 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08qSsRtRjHkp=A62B369C32568ACDplaynext=1index=21 ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

Re: [MD] Fire and Rain

2010-08-30 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hi JC, Thought I should share this with you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB8j_9k-QzI Remember, If you tighten the string too much it will snap, And if you leave it too slack it will not play, Go with the flow, John, with the twists and turns Life's path lies between the fire and the rain.

Re: [MD] Happy Birthday, Bob!!!

2010-09-05 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hear ! Hear ! Many Happy Returns of the Day ! On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Krimel kri...@krimel.com wrote: Dear Bob, Marsha, who has a good heart and is thoughtful to a fault, reminds me that today is your birthday. I think if everyone here could agree on just one thing; it would be on

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: Humanism

2010-11-15 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Platt, You can have the last word in this matter. You repeat this quote so often; by this sheer effort, it should stand for posterity. Rgds Khoo Hock Aun On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Platt Holden platthol...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Marsha, Yes, Mr. Pirsig is a good man. He is generous

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: Humanism

2010-11-15 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
. Your students have a good teacher in you. Rgds Khoo Hock Aun On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Arlo Bensinger ajb...@psu.edu wrote: [DMB quotes Pirsig] I'm very pleased to know that Dr. Anthony McWatt and David Buchanan will be speaking at Oxford. They are the two foremost philosophers today

Re: [MD] Myanmar Today: Quality on the March

2007-09-29 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
to an end. And maybe most of the world too. Lets see how events unfold in the next few weeks. Khoo Hock Aun On 9/28/07, Heather Perella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Khoo Hock Aun, thank you for posting this. I've been watching the news, searching specifically for the details

Re: [MD] MRI of a Poet's Brain

2007-11-10 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Marsha Thanks for this post. Nowsomething I wrote aeons ago.. ...by a neurosurgical stroke so fine I find myself completely out of my mind.. Khoo Hock Aun On 11/11/07, MarshaV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From ZEN-BRAIN REFLECTIONS by James H. Austin, M.D. MRI of a Poet's Brain

Re: [MD] The Oriental intellect(ual) level

2007-11-11 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
to divide and classify - is just too strong is it not ? Best Regards Khoo Hock Aun On 11/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Akshay On 8 Nov. you wrote in response to (Pirsig's) question 1. In relation to whether Upanishadic philosophy can be classified as intellectual

Re: [MD] The Oriental intellect(ual) level

2007-11-12 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Bo, There is Pirsig in everything And there is everything in Pirsig, Best Best of regards Khoo Hock Aun On 11/13/07, Heather Perella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SA previously] Exactly! What was Bo thinking here? I totally agree with you Khoo Hock Aun! [Bo] I may seem

Re: [MD] subject/object: pragmatism

2007-11-17 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
It is the clinging to the false that makes the true so difficult to see. The real is always with you; you need not wait to be what you are. Only you must not allow your mind to go out of yourself in search. When you want something, ask yourself: do I really need it? And if the answer is not, then

Re: [MD] poetry

2007-11-20 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
the autumn leaves pile by the door I almost hear the rustle of her dress how can I bring my aching heart to rest On 11/21/07, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bright moon, the wind moves leaves - geese not seen. Flight across the pond, well met A being bigger than names raindrops on

Re: [MD] poetry

2007-11-23 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
reborn now, chimeric, chameleonic a goddess, she thought was she On 11/23/07, MarshaV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cold night, cold light, thoughts falling from the trees. Wind chimes, rabbit rhythms, dancing sea. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

Re: [MD] Lilith/Lila

2007-12-23 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
in the person of Hillary) but in the ultimate acceptance of a woman as de facto leader of the world. What do you all think ? Khoo Hock Aun On 12/23/07, Heather Perella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marsha, Marsha, I wonder about this depiction of females of evil, too, and I found two depictions (a more

Re: [MD] Lilith/Lila

2007-12-23 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
gender it belongs to ? Khoo Hock Aun Greetings, What do you mean She has a man's brain.. The static assumptions in that statement just makes my blood boil. But putting that aside, I agree with your last paragraph, and thank you for writing it. Marsha Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo

Re: [MD] Lilith/Lila

2007-12-23 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
, biological, social and intellectual. Only the parts need to come together. Nothing of that sort happens when delinked parts imagine themselves isolated and reject or subdue the other. Khoo Hock Aun On 12/24/07, Heather Perella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Khoo Hock Aun] I know a lot

Re: [MD] What is culture in the MOQ?

2008-01-04 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
of culture in that, and perhaps more. Rgds Khoo Hock Aun On 1/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David (MB) You said on 3 January: Bo said: There are no MOQ patterns across two levels, but lots of words that straddles many levels. dmb says: What? Except for purely

Re: [MD] Where was Quality before Pirsig?

2008-01-08 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
of Patterns. The Metaphysics of Morphogenesis. A Metaphysics that cannot be explained by the intellectual level, alone. For us to judge what is good and what is bad, what is of value and what is worth doing, we need a Metaphysics of Quality. That is what we are all about. Rgds Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss

Re: [MD] Taoism

2008-01-08 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice, you are ready to shout out, You idiot! What's wrong with you? Are

Re: [MD] The Brujo

2009-03-22 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
the system, or its us. Which is it to be ? Rgds Khoo Hock Aun On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM, gav gav...@yahoo.com.au wrote: hi dan, thanks for that story. i am more on walter's side re: astrology. not inferring causative relations, just saying everything's an analogue all the way down and up

Re: [MD] The Brujo

2009-03-22 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Khoo Hock Aun --- On Sun, 22/3/09, Khoo Hock Aun khoohock...@gmail.com wrote: From: Khoo Hock Aun khoohock...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MD] The Brujo To: moq_disc...@moqtalk.org Received: Sunday, 22 March, 2009, 7:10 PM “*Be the change you want to see in the world*.” - Gandhi Gav

Re: [MD] Catching up to Pirsig

2009-04-14 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Marsha David, Here's something from Chinese 4th Century poet T'ao Ch'ien that may resonate: A human being has no roots We are light as dust on the path Scattered and carried by a gust of wind In this body is no permanency Born into this world makes us brothers No need of flesh and blood

[MD] Quality on the March II: Tehran 2009

2009-06-17 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Dear all, Every now and then, as in Tiananmen Square, in Burma and now in Tehran, humanity feels the common bond with the oppressed who revolt against the unyielding weight of tyranny in their lives. It is perhaps inevitable that the intellect has ossified movements into uncaring institutions

Re: [MD] Too Open?

2008-03-28 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
I, for one appreciate your openness. We are here to discuss the Metaphysics of Quality. Some here intellectualise, some here, like you, speak from direct experience. To each his or her own. The value of this forum is that it should allow both approaches to the MOQ as Pirsig, layering direct

[MD] Institutions, Movements, Values and Quality

2008-05-17 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
to disrupt the Olympics, we see in the short space of time, the clash of values, movements, institutions the world over - all over the question of what is good and bad for the Tibetan people. This question requires a bit of meditation I am afraid and to each his/her own. Rgds Khoo Hock Aun

Re: [MD] Institutions, Movements, Values and Quality

2008-05-18 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
or returning in another form. Perhaps that is what he is preparing his flock for. Rgds Khoo Hock Aun On 5/18/08, Heather Perella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Khoo Hock Aun, If the Dali Lama is voted to not be reincarnated, then what happens to Bodhisattva of Compassion? SA Moq_Discuss

Re: [MD] Institutions, Movements, Values and Quality

2008-05-18 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
SA: This would keep the current undertakings intact, compassion would not leave them. Compassion would have taken on a much larger role though, not just a Tibetan role, but a more universal role of compassion. This would seem to be attuned to the Bodhisattva way in the first place.

Re: [MD] Institutions, Movements, Values and Quality

2008-05-18 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
SA: Or, are you saying the people could vote for the continuance of the Dali Lama, but the Bodhisattva of Compassion reserves the choice to be reincarnated as the Dali Lama by this Bodhisattvas own choosing? Wouldn't this also be a change? One that hasn't happened in the each of the last

Re: [MD] Celebration on the 4th

2009-07-04 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
in isolation or in its own self-interest. Thats what Pirsig meant. Before the battle is fought and after the dead are buried, the rest of us are the ones who have to live with the consequences of what we do. The soldier, with great respect, is only one of us doing our biding. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun

Re: [MD] A guy in his 50s examines the coming storm

2009-10-11 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
think. Quality almost always depends on what we see. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:10 AM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: So yesterday was my 50th birthday. I didn't go anywhere, see anyone or do anything. I stayed home with my boy, my youngest, Josh. Lu went

Re: [MD] Re; chinese language patterns

2008-10-12 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Skutvik : Thus the oriental intellectual level was every bit as S/O as the Occidental, but the Orientals did not lock on to that level to let it develop into a S/O metaphysics like the West. Khoo: Wow, Bo this is as superficial as you can get about a culture and a civilisation bounded by a

Re: [MD] Re; chinese language patterns

2008-10-14 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hi Marsha Quaint, to find my words thrown back at me : ) But really, when the world is crashing down on so many people, I guess there wont be many with half a mind; is any. Then they didnt have any to begin with, if they allowed themselves to caught up in the global euphoria of the bubble; the

[MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

2008-10-16 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
; or a machine that transcends Time. The idea of an individual has no meaning or sense in such a world view. Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss

Re: [MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

2008-10-16 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Sorry this should read: In reality, time is NOT only linear but multilinear and omnilinear and happening all at once and everywhere. On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Khoo Hock Aun [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Dear all, I would like to reply to at least two threads this weekend, when I

[MD] Shambhala

2008-10-16 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
The spiritual center of the World has had different names in different traditions, but in many spiritual systems there is referred to a certain and unique point of emanation of spiritual order, most often described in a way that indicates it being placed in a parallel world or a higher dimension.

Re: [MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

2008-10-16 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
and all the same at the same time. And the secret to the time machine; or a machine that transcends Time. The idea of an individual has no meaning or sense in such a world view. Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi

Re: [MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

2008-10-16 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
in such a world view. Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ -- [EMAIL

Re: [MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

2008-10-27 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
. But as a quantum leap into a new philosophical inquiry but based on the western tradition of the scientific method; it depends, I suppose, on how much one is prepared to let go of some, if not all, of its fundamental premises. There you have it. I hope that helps. Best Regards, Khoo Hock Aun

Re: [MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

2008-10-28 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
step outside of Time to be incredibly congruent with being in a Quality moment; the peace of a monastery away from the daily papers, bloomberg TV, boom and bust cycles, ordinary experiences of living and dying. I will get back to ya, when I can. Best., Khoo Hock Aun On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:26 PM

Re: [MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

2008-10-28 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
of meditation is to 'de-reflex our experience of socalled 'time' and to step outside of it to greet the eternal now that you personified in your essay. Best, Khoo Hock Aun On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Platt Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Platt, Okay, looks like sleep will have to wait

Re: [MD] Emotions' place?

2008-10-28 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
with in relation to the universe than based on subject object reductionism. Luck for instance is the pictogram of a girl under a house. Fortune is the pictogram of a hat over what is land. What is experienced is what is represented. Best Khoo Hock Aun On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Andre

Re: [MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

2008-10-28 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
of form, perpetually in flux with the everchanging universe. There was no beginning and there is no end, it can't therefore grow old. Khoo Hock Aun On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Platt Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Khoo, My physical body may age and be at a certain chronological

Re: [MD] Emotions' place?

2008-10-28 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
the extreme directions it has been taken by its leaders, imperial or socialist. It makes no pretense that intellect is merely a tool (even if elements are borrowed from the West) it is not an end in itself. Best Regards Khoo Hock Aun On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Andre Broersen [EMAIL

Re: [MD] Emotions' place?

2008-10-30 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hi Andre I will get back to you on the points below but in the meantime, something to think about from Mckinsey: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Globalization/China_surprises Rgds Khoo Hock Aun On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Andre Broersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Khoo says: China

Re: [MD] Warning

2008-11-13 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Hi Marsha There is. Just take 1 SOM tablet 50 mg strength after meals preferably before writing to this list. Best ! Khoo Hock Aun On 11/13/08, MarshaV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Warning. Heard on the radio last night that if you start writing poetry, painting and generally

Re: [MD] The Menu/Reality issue

2008-11-18 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
observes: and that there is none. If only we can say as much about quality without all the words of the last 10 years. Paint me a picture. Best regards Khoo Hock Aun On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:28 PM, MarshaV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:47 AM 11/18/2008, you wrote: Marsha Re your

Re: [MD] Trance state

2008-11-19 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Spot on Ian, intellectualisation by itself does not lead to realisation. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Ian Glendinning [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: And so Bo, Steve, etc ... We come full circle yet again ... to the finger and the moon, the map and the terrain, the menu and the meal The

Re: [MD] Instant Karma

2008-11-24 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
and an undisturbed mind. Best Khoo Hock Aun On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:45 PM, MarshaV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:38 AM 11/24/2008, you wrote: Marsha p.s. I consider some of the work done on the forum to be pattern busting. Andre: Thank you for your confidence Marsha. Glad you liked 'my

Re: [MD] Trance state

2008-11-28 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
- 1977 Best Khoo Hock Aun On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:09 PM, MarshaV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Khoo, What do you think? Marsha At 04:38 AM 11/28/2008, you wrote: Greetings Khoo, Yes, I think it is intellectual, and much, much more. Everything-is-connected-to-everything would make

Re: [MD] Trance state

2008-12-02 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
is like a big banana tree leaf or the last who pulls on the tail that says if you pull on its cord, the heavens open up on you !! Best Khoo Hock Aun On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Ian Glendinning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beautiful Khoo, I like Dead Poets too, it has some flaws

Re: [MD] A fine mess

2008-12-04 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
to you give yourself. Regards Khoo Hock Aun On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Andre Broersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Platt (to Bodvar): So on three counts, SOM intellect has not and can not regulate society with anything other than detrimental effect. The survey of students mentioned

Re: [MD] A fine mess

2008-12-04 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
the education system and we have to reach into our direct experience with the world and the universe in general to acheive a proper balance. Where the intellect and its systems fails us, we make up for it with commonsense. Rgds Khoo Hock Aun On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Andre Broersen [EMAIL

Re: [MD] Painting

2008-12-10 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
the next nine, marsha. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:57 PM, MarshaV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just finishing Matisse, the 9th. It's been very helpful... And, I've learned a little about making judgements. When it's seen without its biblical/parental connotations, judgement becomes value.

Re: [MD] Multiculturalism scam

2009-01-06 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
or ideology what does it take, as Rodney asked : to get along ? Rgds Khoo Hock Aun Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail

Re: [MD] Christendom's place in the MOQ

2009-01-09 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
Bo, Its not that your topic is odd or even novel. Its your circularity that has us going on round in dead ends. I am sure that you know you can take logic only as far the premises you base your argumentation on will take you. You may draw your conclusions, but we question your premises and all

Re: [MD] Christendom's place in the MOQ

2009-01-10 Thread Khoo Hock Aun
any more time. Get on with it. Regards, Khoo Hock Aun On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:26 AM, ml mbtl...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Khoo, Just a small correction: The Apocrypha is accepted by the fully Orthodox as holy writ, just not as part of the Bible. Many gnostic writings claim

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