Hi Andre, I got your hint. By suggesting it was "surely" a stepping stone, I intended rhetorically .... "and not something fundamental". I would be (is for some people) a hindrance to treat is as such.
Ian On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Andre Broersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian to Andre: > > PS, and yes Andre SOL is surely one such stepping stone on "the road > beneath our wheels". > > Andre: > Hello Ian, but what I was getting at is; is the SOL interpretation a > 'stepping stone' as you say, or a hindrance, as I was hinting at? > > My question comes from Bodvar's oft pontification that one cannot understand > the MOQ properly unless one accepts his SOL interpretation. Now, I think > that that is (as dmb has pointed out to Mary) more of a fundamentalist > stance than anything else. > > I thought that one of Mr. Pirsig's aims of presenting the MOQ was to help us > 'see' better. To assist us towards becoming 'awake' ( in the Buddha sense). > To see things without the interference of dogma, authority, concepts, > reports, books... without the MOQ!!By direct experience, living the moment > now. > > This is where Phaedrus wants us to go (each following our own dharma) and > this is what he meant when he said 'Kill all intellectual patterns'. > > Bodvar simply says: NO! You cannot reach enlightenment unless you 'go > through and accept my SOL'!!! > > The subjects and the objects he has created plus the Cartesian objective > over subjective stance he assumes seem to be more solid than mountains...and > diamonds!( which are, after all, inorganic patterns of value). > > > > > > 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 > 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
