Mark to Marsha: Memory seems to? just tie us down and turn us into robots. ?IMO.
Andre: Hi Mark and Marsha, yes, you are right Mark, if by 'robots' you mean this re-creation at every moment of our sense of 'I' , sense of 'self'. I had an interesting thing happen the other day on the pushbike down the street. I had resolved, like you, to just be in the moment. And lo and behold, something happened and I felt a tug, a distraction (this is split-second stuff) and I realised that I'd 'normally' (habitually) react angrily to what had happened...but not this time.I realised that my reaction was simply linked to past reactions, not to the 'now' moment. For me it reinforced Pirsig's notion of freedom from static patterns as making a lot of sense. Memory is one huge bundle of static patterns, and consciously or unconsciously (the distinction is superfluous really) we all respond to our environment from these. Lesson for me: be aware of what static stuff you bring to each moment. Cheers 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/
