Hi Andre,
I certainly will miss your Buddhist wisdom. But I cannot help but wonder about
the expression of your "having to defend Pirsig against himself" , especially
when RMP talks in ZMM of explanations being both true and false, and in
LILA of more than one set of truths.
"Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true
precisely
because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation
is
an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and
predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word quality cannot
be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so
mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct."
(ZMM, Chapter 20)
“…if Quality or excellence is seen as the ultimate reality then it becomes
possible
for more than one set of truths to exist. Then one doesn't seek the absolute
Truth.
One seeks instead the highest quality intellectual explanation of things with
the
knowledge that if the past is any guide to the future this explanation must be
taken
provisionally; as useful until something better comes along. One can then
examine
intellectual realities the same way one examines paintings in an art gallery,
not with
an effort to find out which one is the 'real' painting, but simply to enjoy and
keep those
that are of value. There are many sets of intellectual reality in existence and
we can
perceive some to have more quality than others, but that we do so is, in part,
the
result of our history and current patterns of values.
(LILA, Chapter 8)
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Maybe I'm fortunate to have painting to totally distract me when I get feeling
stuck.
For instance, I have started painting, from an old etched print, a gypsy woman
seriously
playing a guitar. It is an impossible task, I love to paint. - What do you
love to do?
I've often wanted to ask people, how does the MoQ make their lives better?
Abstract
thinking about metaphysical subject matter is wonderful, but has it changed
your life?
Peace be with you Andre.
Marsha
On Mar 28, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Andre Broersen wrote:
> Dear MoQ'ers,
>
> As some of you know, my circumstances in where I live and work are not
> optimal. Frustration gallore.
> The Discuss was for me a stimulating diversion, but it has become a bit
> tedious of late. I can identify with
> the MoQ as Pirsig has formulated it. Of course this is not everyone's
> experience, but let's just say that I am
> getting tired of having to defend Pirsig against himself. Rarely have I given
> my own reading of the MoQ.
> I have always tried to back it up with quotes from ZMM, LILA and LC.
>
> So many objections, other interpretations etc.
>
> That is fine. Don't get me wrong. I just do not have the intellectual garbage
> to say things coherently and doing
> justice to the MoQ and Mr. Pirsig at the same time.
>
> Just very tired at present.
>
> So I'll say goodbye for a while.
>
> Take care,
> Yours sincerely
> Andre
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