Andre: Suddenly from nothing came something. Is that your position?. Do you think that's the MOQ position?
Platt On 19 Nov 2009 at 18:54, Andre Broersen wrote: > Platt to Andre: > If experience is the starting point, time is presumed. So it begs the > question. "When did the starting point begin?" I don't know of any > answer given by Pirsig. So I'd be interested in yours. > > Andre: > Reality (Quality) is experience. Point zero, time zero. The moment of > zero containing the universe. Time is superfluous. > > Please Platt, remember that Phaedrus compared Quality with the > Tao...the Way, the Buddhist emptiness. > > We are talking about existence (patterned) and non- existence > (unpatterned). At the cutting edge of this moment there is: not > this-not that... but an emptiness that is full. > > I think that to try to understand Mr.Pirsig and his MoQ fully you must > experience the nothing. Totally nothing. Absolutely nothing. It is > vital to keep all concepts out of the DQ. If you insist you are > following a different path from the MoQ..which is fine but then do not > use the MoQ to justify your path...you are on your own. Which is fine. > > Zennies would say that , that is the way to go...well go...but do not > abuse the MoQ in the process. > > Kind regards > Andre > 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/
