Hello everyone > > Dear Friends, > > In light of our mind-body discussion with a small subset of this > group I'm sure, I feel compelled to ask this question; > > What kind of Quality have you experienced?
Hi Dwai, Thank you so much for writing! I happened to be at the grocery doing some shopping today (I am making vegetable soup) and a baby smiled at me. A big broad toothless droolly smile, as if she'd been expecting to see me there and it made her happy to have her expectations realized. The soup will taste especially good, I think. > > I know the question sounds very ambiguous and perhaps tad snarky. > But here's my reasoning of this -- > > I get the feeling that a lot of discussions here tend to remain in > the realm of intellectual musings and cud-chewing & I could be > wrong, but that is my impression. It is a discussion forum so (I think) that is to be expected. > > Several concepts of Pirsig's MoQ seems to be easily and verifiably > identifiable with elements of The Way Tao&; Brahman& Shunyata and can > tangibly be experienced Stillness, Void, Tao, Brahman, Te, > Chi...many names indeed. > > How much of this actually translates into the experiences of those of > you who DO NOT practice any Mind-Body practices is of great > intrigue to me. Being a product of Western culture, I am sure any 'Mind-Body' practice I do will not translate into Eastern practices as you might know them, so I think it's ok for me to answer. If not, please disregard this post. In my (intellectual) estimation, any tangible experience regarding Tao, Stillness, Void, etc. cannot be expressed in words so another may experience the same. It is no good talking about 'it' and in fact talk will just take us further away from our target. Indeed, once realized, there is no target as such. See for yourself. > > So, those of you who can take my query in that light, please do humor > me and type a few lines. Since it seemed better to write than not... > > Warm Regards, To you as well, Dan _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_jan 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/
