Arlo to Andre:
I'd say the paradox is that it is these patterns that have made us
lose the connection to Dharma in the first place (although I hope
Locke finds Dharma soon). This is why the Eastern way is to "kill
these patterns", and one of those patterns that must be killed is "purpose".
[Andre]
Starting in your heart and head and then your hands, and then work
outward from there. (ZMM,p291).
[Arlo]
This isn't directed at you, of course, but I want to say that the
fallacy is that you need "purpose" to "be". You don't. What you
demonstrate here does not require purpose, it requires only
responding to Quality in the now.
Andre:
Interesting Arlo, I hope you don't mind me persuing this a little further.
People responding consistently, predictably to DQ (?) i.e responding in
prescribed, socially/culturally accepted ways, thereby making some form of
social cohesion (society) possible ('objectified' in social patterns of
value). And when you say that 'these patterns have made us lose the
connection to Dharma' you say that these patterns have become, not a means
toward the 'Good' but an end in themselves. Thus losing the connection with
the 'undifferentiated aesthetic continuum'.
The compensation is to try to 'find oneself' in these patterns (hoping they
can create for us some sort of 'meaning', some sort of 'purpose') which, of
course is futile.(hence people taking refuge in theism, power, status,
accumulation of wealth etc, etc.).
Something like that or is this too simple a representation?
Andre
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