Hi Bo, See comments below:
On 19 Feb 2010 at 9:37, [email protected] wrote: > 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. Yes I think Buddhism is indeed "wooly" if not downright "hippie." > 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. Would it have been better if he had d stopped after ZAMM and not written Lila? Maybe so. But then there would be no MOQ. Right? > 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. So should he have written the MOQ or not? Maybe he should have shown that we're immersed in Quality whether we know it or not (like he did to his students) and let it go at that. Best, Platt 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/
