Hello everyone > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:50:55 -0700 > Subject: Re: [MD] Mind-body practice > > > Marsha said: > I've been thinking about what Krimel wrote here. I like to play this game. I > thought this description really quite beautiful. It can't be taken seriously > though, it is play, it is Lila. But this game also seems contrary to all the > literature on the Tao, Buddhism,etc. Maybe I'm missing something, but that > seems silly. How can anything be excluded? Anybody have any thoughts? > > Dan replied: > I agree it's intellectually appealing to learn new ideas and to fill our days > chasing empty concepts. I think the MOQ says that that takes us away from > Dynamic Quality, however. It doesn't bring us closer. Perhaps that is what > the literature on the Tao and Buddhism is telling you. > > dmb says: > You've both raise a good point about what the literature says and I don't > disagree but there is also a mode of thought, if you will, that isn't so > empty of static. Thinking can be a creative, dynamic, aesthetic experience > too. Maybe that's a paradox but I think its just that static thinking is > qualitatively different than dynamic thinking. So I tend to sympathize with > Krimel Case's case. I wouldn't put things quite the way he did, but I've been > moved to tears, hysterical laughter and everything in between by nothing more > than thoughts. I love it and it seems like the right thing to do. I don't > know, maybe its just my least destructive vice.
Hi David Thak you for writing. I tend to believe this has more to do with one's state of mind rather than thinking itself. All too often we only recognise that which we already agree with... Bo's wincing when he reads the 'annotations' in LILA'S CHILD, for example. I am quite sure that if Robert Pirsig endorsed his SOLAQI in his 'annotations', then Bo would no longer find himself wincing and the scare quotes would disappear too. Thanks again, Dan "The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. It’s a state of mind which is regenerated throughout the centuries by a body of people who traditionally carry the title of professor, but even that title is not part of the real University. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself." (ZMM) 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/
