Hi Platt
17 Feb. you wrote:
> The other day I happened across what appears to be a contradiction in
> the MOQ as presented in Lila. In chapter 7 Pirsig says, "The world is
> primarily a moral order" and supports his contention by describing all
> the moral choices toward betterness that were made during the course of
> evolution. But then in chapter 11 he wrote: "He let himself get caught
> in the kind of 'picking and choosing' situation that Zen avoids and now
> he was stuck."
> If Zen is the key to understanding reality and if reality is best
> understood as "picking and choosing" among values, a process that Zen
> avoids, a contradiction arises. I wonder if someone has an explanation
> for this apparent incongruity.
As said a couple of times I think Pirsig's prostrating himself before
Buddhism is directly counterproductive after having "received" a much
clearer Western system of wisdom that turns circles round the woolly
Oriental article.
But to be more specific, this reflects the "Quality/MOQ" issue.To Pirsig
the Quality=Reality insight was the all-consuming issue, afterwards he
would better stand on one leg and stare into the sun of Quality, on the
other hand he could not resist working out a system, but this was really
a vice and he had to "flog" himself for this sin.
However, nothing comes out of the Quality=Reality insight, it's as stale
as the Indian fakir staring into the sun, the MOQ IS the Quality, but
alas these incongruities are strewn all over LILA and prevents a true
apprehension of his achievement, we always get the impression that
he has committed an indecent act by writing a metaphysics.
IMO
Bodvar
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