Hi Marsha, > At 10:37 AM 12/12/2008, you wrote: > > >[Ron] > > > I would say that a "true" MoQ teacher does not "teach" but provides > the > > > climet and the atmosphere > > > for the individual to realize itself. > > > >Yes -- another reason for thinking of the intellectual level as the > >"individual" level, the current high point of moral evolution, laying > the > >groundwork for the advance to the next level of art. > > Greetings Platt, > > How would this quote fit into your intellectual-level-as-individual > point-of-view? > > "While sustaining biological and social patterns > Kill all intellectual patterns. > Kill them completely > And then follow Dynamic Quality > And morality will be served." > (LILA, Chapter 32)
This reflects what Pirsig said near the beginning of LIla -- that writing a metaphysics is a degenerate activity. But he went on to say that not writing a metaphysics was just as degenerate as writing one. "Purity, identified, ceases to be purity." So while we acknowledge a mystic reality of no intellectual patterns and thus no levels (as in the passage you quote) we have to "settle for being something less pure." My individual level point-of-view, like the MOQ itself, is being less pure. Platt 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/
