gav: classic texts, the buddha and the crucifix - all anathema to totalitarianism.
Andre: Hi gav, these are some generarisations you throw in the ring but I'll bite anyway because of what I experienced toninght: I witnessed the goings on after an accident-just-happened. We were walking back from the restaurant after having had a wonderful meal. A small crowd had gathered on the road and taxi's were approaching turned around as if in avoidance. We came closer and saw, through the legs of the assembled crowd a man lying on the bitumen, blood pouring from his head.His motorcycle lying two yards behind him. I noticed that his shoes ware taken from his feet. Three yards behind the fallen bike a woman lay on the road in half up-right position. The mangled remains of her push-bike behind her. Her shoes had also been taken off and she held her hand which was bleeding. She was in pain and discomfort as though the hand was not the only part of her distress. She was left alone but nearby the motorcyclist a woman, on her knees gave the impression of giving comfort...but I could not see any evidence of this. She was somehow desparate. Then my friend told me (based on his experience whereby, in an accident four people were killed immediately and two were fighting for their lives) that in China, nobody does anything in such situations because that is proscribed by the law. The law prescribes that, in situations such as this, you wait for the police. The victims are not attended to. The police will come, take measurements with a tape,assess the scene,speak to witnesses, get their report in order and then call the ambulance to attend to the casualties (if they are still alive). I must stress that I have observed this through 'Western' eyes (what else can I do?). But nobody did anything (apart from having taken the shoes off those directly involved in the accident). Is this an example of how the lower levels are treated when dominated by intellect? Thank goodness the MoQ has expanded the intellectual level to 'incorporate' an intellectual understanding of and argument for Quality. gav, I think the only thing I want to say is that the Quality path does not differ from the religious path. I am convinced Pirsig agrees with this. He will take issue, as I will, with taking the 'religion' path. John will scream about the nonsense of this rejection because of connotations but the MoQ also asks to re-consider/ re-assess and re-evaluate 'old' words/terms and expressions which through SOM have become contaminated and connoted with meanings far removed from their original intent. No, I have not read Eckhart Tolle's books. Tell us some more. Yours sincerely 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/md/archives.html
