I wonder what Arlo's purpose was in writing this post? On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Arlo Bensinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> [Andre] > Something like that or is this too simple a representation? > > [Arlo] > Yeah, I think that captures it. "Intellectual patterns" remove us from the > DQ moment of NOW! but they also afford us great power in controlling the > flow of the future. "Purpose" is one such pattern, that attempts to derive > "power-to-act" in the future by encoding the past in a certain way. As such > it can be a great motivator, and can inspire people to do great things. But > it can also inspire great evil. Dharma, the point of Quality, is in the NOW! > and as such approaching it requires the abandonment of all intellectual > patterns (which, of course, includes "purpose"). Like "the self", "purpose" > is a nice illusion that should be held when useful but only lightly and > always with the understanding that it is a metaphor, a tool, a device, > nothing more. When "purpose" becomes seen as more than this, when it becomes > a "reality" outside human intellectual constructions, then one is back in > that S/O land the MOQ tries to overcome (not to mention in a dead, > mechanistic cosmos where we are naught but marionnettes enacting some god's > whims). > > And let's be honest. Apart from appealing to the human affective need to > feel special, "Purpose" is nearly always a control word. As such, I > personally find it better to avoid the concept altogether. Its limiting, > stagnating, manipulative and pandering. Beer will almost always make you > feel the same way as "purpose" does, but without the haughty narcissism and > philosophical inanity of "purpose". > > 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/ > 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/
