Hi Arlo, 2009/1/1 ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[email protected]>
> [Arlo] > Meditation. Yoga. Zen. All attempts to quiet the mind and free one from the > intellectual, social, biological and inorganic attachments that define the > broad species of "man". > > But I think it is important to point out that these are not "chains" we can > ever live without. These patterns are dialogic, if you will, in that they > afford as much as they constrain behavior. We are bound by these chains, > but it > is these chains that also enable us, provide the context for which we are > agenic. All too often we see the "ills" of these attachments, but we forget > that without them we'd be far far far less "free" than we are. This is, for > me, > one of the contributions of the DQ/SQ-Yin/Yang metaphor of the MOQ. Whereas > others glorify DQ and near villify SQ, I think the MOQ shows us how their > particular dance drives the evolution that has set us "free". As Pirsig > said, > too much Dynamic brings chaos and too much static brings stagnation. We are > bound by culture, but without this unavoidable boundedness we would be in > worse > shackles, the shackles of biological necessity. We are forever suspended in > language, but this suspension affords us far greater freedoms to act than > we > had before. > Right on Arlo - and thanks for the reply. -KO 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/
