Marsha, and all --
> I think your comment to Partha is an important aspect of pattern making. > > "Indeed, what the Taoist believes is that whatever > is, is the Tao, so it cannot possibly be undesirable. > Even the most seemingly ghastly thing is that way. > Good and Bad are simply values we assign to things..." > > Whatever is Quality cannot possibly be undesirable. Quality equals > Morality. Assigning good and bad are pattern making. An interesting, but flawed, analysis. Can what is "bad" be desirable? What is good (desirable) and what is bad (undesirable) are patterns of our own making. But they are patterns of value (Quality) which, you say, equals Morality. There is something askew here. And it demonstrates a point I have been trying to make in my book and the MD. We can't extrapolate morality and immorality beyond finite experience. Thus, what to us is "unfair", "cruel", "painful", or "repulsive" are finite representations (patterns) of the Tao (otherness) relative to OURSELVES. If we take ourselves out of the equation, there is no morality because there is no difference. It is man--alienated value-sensibility--that determines what is good and bad and invents Morality to categorize all experienced phenomena. As an alienated creature, the human being-aware is divided by nothingness and imperfect, and the imperfections are reflected in the objects and events which he perceives as "bad", as well as what he doesn't perceive at all. Only a Sensibility that is not divided from other-being is perfect. This, I believe, is what is referred to in the various religions as God, Tao, Oneness, Buddha-nature, and Essence. Being-aware is a divided (dualistic) entity whose experience is differentiated and relational. And while Quality, Value and Morality (the good-to-bad spectrum) are fundamental to experiential (S/O) existence, such differentiation is not fundamental to the ultimate source. At the risk of offending the MoQuists, I contend that the equation Quality = Morality = Reality is wrong as applied to the undifferentiated source. My argument rests on the metaphysical principle that Reality is not a divided system. Essence is the absolute integration of contrariety. Food for thought? Essentially yours, Ham 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/
