Platt,
That's easy. It is Spring and Arlo is beautiful.
Marsha
At 05:16 PM 4/29/2009, you wrote:
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".
>
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