Hello Marsha, this is my first attempt to use this forum.
We percieve the world in one way and think in another way. that is the
big problem with quality.
Anything moves. Humans are moving, their heart will beat and they can’t
stop breathing.
I like the parts of western movies where a bunch of bandits rides up and
try to catch the running train.
Very nice picture of humanitys struggle to understand the reality and
themselves.
The thing is that Quality has three dimensions within the time, not two.
Beside the dynamic quality and the static quality
we also have another that is about numbers, mass and energy. The quality
of quantity.
Number is a quantity aspect of quality. Monopeds, bicycles or
three-wheelers.
Three different kinds with different way of using.
You need at least three wheels to roll steady without a balancing ability.
No half-wheel possible. I feel comfortable with my four-wheeled car.
Changes in small number populatons are relatively big changes.
What if they changed the six-packs of beer to five-packs. I think that
could start a riot.
A sixpack is an example upon number quality. Six is good, five is bad
Static form and quantity is totally independent from each other.
Yet they are totally bound to each other because anything that have
energy, also have form.
You can’t build a pyramid with only two balls, you need at least 4. With
10 or 20 you can build a bigger pyramid but it is still a pyramid.
With the same amount of something there are a large number of ways to
arrange it.
That is why chess is so interesting. The chessmen can be arranged in
millions of ways.
The same conditions concerning form is also affecting all materia and
energy in the universe.
The mathematics behind form is similar all over the universe.
The sum of the angles of a triangle is always 180°. Every molecule is
affected by the same rules.
We can see tracks of the time as a drop of water that falls on a surface
of water, how the collision forms a circular wave on the surface with
the same speed in all directions. Two dimensional time.
The sound waves from raindrops meeting leaves in the forest is making a
noise from thousands of drops and every sound is spreading as wave
spheres in all or most directions. Three dimensional time.
The time itself is like a bubble, a sphere, emanating from the starting
point and working out in all directions.
Outside the sphere is the future and inside is the past.
The actual level of the change or the now is in the border between the
past and the future.
Any event or change has its own time. Quality is the keep of the balance
in the three dimensions.
Too much or less in one dimension, is unbalancing and can stop the
event. Which is the end of every process.
All energy has form, formed energy has a value.
You already got an emotional system to orient yourself in these three
dimensions as you are already since birth working on your high quality
life. Emotions are faster than your brain. Our DNA has been trained for
millions of years. Our conscius thinking maybe 100 000 years. You can't
calculate where the ball is heading but you've got a very fast sense for it.
You got senses and emotions for the amount of energy and other load in
your life:
You got enough money. Hunger, thirst and a garage that you can't use
because its filled with other things than a car.
You got senses and emotions for your form, the static pattern and firm
parts of your life:
You feel healthy and strong. You are definitely getting it all right.
You thrust your bank and your local bus schedule. You feel safe with
your insurance company but you arent really sure that you'll get any
money from them if something happen.
You got senses and emotions for your purpose, the dynamic and creative
side of your life:
You're beautiful and intelligent. You know boredom, tiredness of all
this stupid and unfilled forms, lust for a talk to a friend.
The next chess move you make will really be a treath for your opponent.
Too much or too less of anything is blasphemic
:-)
Jan-Anders Andersson
Marsha:
>From 'The Dalai Lama at MIT' and pertaining to why some of the Buddhist
tools, like visualization, are necessary. And maybe why I think the 'world
as is' could be better without the subject/object point-of-view.
" ... We need to place these efforts in a larger perspective. They are
part of a more general goal of achieving a transformation of the way we
perceive the phenomenal world as well as the way we conceive of the nature
of the perceiver-- the "I", the subject.
Why do we need to transform these things? What is wrong with the way in
which we ordinarily perceive the world? Usually when we perceive the world,
we cannot help but assign to it values and judgments. In some cases, of
course, doing so helps us to function in this world. If we know something
is very hot, we need to be careful with it. If we know that something is
dangerous, we keep our distance. But the process quickly solidifies, and
soon we start assigning or imputing characteristics to external objects that
we feel are intrinsic to them but are not. We might think this floor is
beautiful because we perceive it as such. But very quickly we tend to
believe that it is intrinsically beautiful, or ugly. We believe that wounds
are intrinsically pleasant or unpleasant, and so, similarly, in the cases of
taste, touch, and all our sensory experiences. In fact, there is a deeply
interdependent process between outer phenomena and our mind. We perceive
things and assign values to them; we try to possess things or discard them
based on those judgments; and we start to believe that the characteristics
we impute to object actually belong to the objects. In this way, we
experience a much stronger compulsion to attract or repulse them.
The problem is that our experiences of craving or repulsion are at odds
with reality. Things are not intrinsically beautiful or pleasant. A rose
might be beautiful to our eyes, but its "beauty" does not mean much to a
whale or a bat. Because our perception is at odds with reality, we end up
with a sense of frustration, torment, inner conflict, and suffering.
Likewise for the perceiver's experience of him- or herself..."
This might diminish the morality of Protagoras' "Man is the Measure of all
Things", but it does nothing to diminish the morality of Quality. Imho.
Marsha, the fool
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