---------- From: Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Soul Daddy sources Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:00 PM Rich and Squad, Rich writes: Zen Buddhism, so far as I understand it, sees that "you" are not your body or mind - at least not essentially, in reality. In Reality, you are (what I translate as) Pure Consciousness (satori). Your consciousness is no different in kind from any other being's consciousness. However, what makes us each unique, what we call our "self" - "I" - is the specific Flavour of each consciousness - the spacetime locale, and the DEGREE of consciousness, which is different for each being according to its position on the great evolutionary scale of complexity and organization. Rich writes: The other way is to completely recreate the Metaphysics of Quality. I believe that each one of us should do this. Create the most beautiful map of reality possible, based on Pirsig's books, and then "throw it to the dogs" on the MD, or University professors, etc... Each is free to build and borrow from his/her neighbour. Clark writes: With regard to eastern mysticism we should remember that the Eastern philosophies arose before the scientific theories of evolution. In other words, the Eastern mystics had to develop a philosophy based on a complete lack of understanding of the scientific order of things. If they had had this knowledge would they not have put it to good use. Would not their philosophy have been guided by their physical understanding of the universe just as ours is now? Would self and soul have been such a sticking point when judged by the understanding that the brain evolved physically and then, due to complexity, have evolved an aesthetic component making us the possessors of effectively two brain functions. Sentience has made us free. The aesthetic component of our brain is ours alone and is what makes us individuals. Backed by the theoretic component it wakes us up each day as the same person we were when we went to sleep. It is our self. The aesthetic component is also what makes us imagine that the universe cannot exist without us. It is the origin of our soul. Self and soul have the same origin. We are not purely deterministic creatures but each exist within our own truth. Just as we are deterministic with regard to the evolutionary component of our brain, we are also deterministic in the aesthetic part only in this case we are under the control of sentience, the prevailing morality of all humanity. We are "Many Truths" slowly evolving toward a single truth. What do you think? Ken Clark MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
