> > > [Bo] Regrettably LILA did not follow up (making
> the 4th. level=S/O)
> > > but created one that we have been chasing for
> more than ten years
> > > without finding out.
[SA previously]
> > Bo, I'm not part of this "we" you refer to above.
[Bo]
> Well, speak out, I'm all ears/eyes. Will there
> finally emerge an
> intellectual defiition that meets the MOQ
> requirements? One that
> the intellectual patterns that Pirsig lists in LILA
> seem natural
> offshoots from.
[Lila; Chapter 32]
>From the static point of view the whole escape into
Dynamic Quality seems like a death experience. It's a
movement from something to nothing. How can 'nothing'
be any different from death? Since a Dynamic
understanding doesn't make the static distinctions
necessary to answer that question, the question goes
unanswered. All the Buddha could say was, 'See for
yourself.'
When early Western investigators first read the
Buddhist texts they too interpreted nirvana as some
kind of suicide. There's a famous poem that goes:
While living,
Be a dead man.
Be completely dead,
And then do as you please.
And all will be well.
It sounds like something from a Hollywood horror-film
but it's about nirvana. The Metaphysics of Quality
translates it:
While sustaining biological and social patterns
Kill all intellectual patterns.
Kill them completely
And then follow Dynamic Quality
And morality will be served.
With all the defining going on in this forum, one
comment I really didn't fully see before and yet I
went on to realize it I guess is, "See for yourself".
As to intellectual patterns, "Kill all intellectual
patterns. Kill them completely. And then follow
Dynamic Quality." Have you tried this Bo. What would
this exercise do to your intellect? Any guesses or
first-hand experience you would like to share. I've
shared mine.
[Bo]
> PS
> Could you please extend the line length of your
> messages, it
> comes out all jumbled at my end.
I don't know how to extend the line length. I
use yahoo mail. So, above I hit enter 5 times between
your comment and my comment, etc...
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