Diana and squad, We have been studying both Zen and Lila for quite some time now and Pirsig put in quite a few years of his life attempting to lay out and explain his ideas to us so I think a 45 minute presentation that will make the MoQ clear to someone who has never heard of it before is impossible. In my opinion a far better approach is just what Mary did. She attempted to explain where we had come from in the past and gave a detailed enough presentation on the MoQ to awaken curiousity in her listeners in the 45 minutes she had available to her. We now have about a dozen people who will possibly have enough interest to pursue the material on their own. If Mary presents similar material to her entire church then we will have a hundred to a hundred and fifty people who will have heard of the MoQ and possibly have enough interest to pursue it. A hundred people reading Zen and Lila on their own is better than having that same hundred people being led by the nose through detailed arguments about the levels and DQ and SQ. We cannot even agree among ourselves about the details. For instance, I think that most of the opinions I see expressed on the squad regarding Dynamic Quality and the Quality Event is entirely wrong. As I see it this is not a philosophy that can be capsulized and presented whole. I believe it is something that each one of us will have to live with and gradually come to fit it into our lives. Ken MOQ Online - http://www.moq.org
