Quoting Dan Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:29:04 -0500 > > Subject: Re: [MD] Mind-body practice > > > > [Dan] > > 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. > > > > [Krimel] > > Do tell. Where does Pirsig say that the pursuit of knowledge takes us away > > from Dynamic Quality? > > "Thought is not a path to reality. It sets obstacles in that path because > when you > try to use thought to approach something that is prior to thought your > thinking > does not carry you toward that something. It carries you away from it. To > define > something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And > when > you do that you destroy real understanding." > > "The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience > but to > bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing, static, > intellectual attachments of the past." > > "While sustaining biological and social patterns > Kill all intellectual patterns. > Kill them completely > And then follow Dynamic Quality > And morality will be served." > > "Strictly speaking, the creation of any metaphysics is an immoral act since > it's a > lower form of evolution, intellect, trying to devour a higher mystic one." [Platt] Can anything be clearer? As far as Pirsig is concerned, pursuit of knowledge is fine as far as it goes. But when it comes to reality, it's like a map, computer model, equation or measurement that necessarily omits a large part of the territory including, most notably, the pre-intellectual Quality experience. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
