Hi dmb, Perhaps you can answer this question I have been wondering about. Does the use of the name Lila have anything to do with the sanskrit Lila? This would be like the playground, or even Reality. Sometimes I have likened Lila to Maya in a general way. I tried reading the book once with that in mind, but perhaps I am on the wrong track and over reading.
I will not dispute or follow up on any answer you give, I am just really interested in your input on this. You may have answered this in the past. Thanks, Mark On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:55 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote: > > Dan said: > ... I recall Mary getting upset that he would have an affair with a bar > lady while he was still married. And yet he told me himself that he was > Lila, and the boat, and the rest of the story as well. That's what I am > driving at. You are the story. How does your life pertain the MOQ. You. Not > the people or places in your life. Do you see what I mean? I know I am > explaining myself poorly but it is a difficult subject. > > > dmb says: > > The same principle applies in dreams and fiction. Everyone in your dreams > is you and everyone in the movie is an aspect of the hero. > > > Lila's breakdown is very much like Pirsig's. In those final scenes, after > Lila slashes Jamie across the face with a knife and they have to make a > quick escape before the police arrive, he was telling us what what > "insanity" is like from the inside. It's not just autobiographical, of > course, because "Lila's battle is everybody's battle" and her status serves > as the book's central koan. > > > These final chapters are also where we find the discussion of William > James, beginning with the question about that squirrel. His discussion of > plural truths and pragmatic truths is intertwined with his discussions about > the relation between insanity and truth and the similarities between > insanity and mysticism. And he brings all of this together to answer the > riddle of Lila. > > > "What he thought was, that in addition to the usual solutions to insanity - > stay locked up or learn to conform - there is a third one, to reject ALL > movies, private and cultural, and head for Dynamic Quality itself, which is > no movie at all. ...evolution doesn't take place only within societies, it > takes place within individuals too." (Lila, p. 360) > > > "Just as mystics traditionally seek monasteries and ashrams and hermitages > as retreats into isolation and silence, so are the insane treated by > isolation in places of relative calm and austerity and silence. Sometimes, > as a result of this monastic retreat into silence and isolation the patient > arrives at a stat Karl Menninger has described as 'better than cured.' He is > actually in better condition than he was before the insanity started. > Phaedrus guessed that in many of the 'accidental' cases, the patient had > learned by himself not to cling to any static patterns of ideas - cultural, > private or other." (Lila, p 375) > > > "That's what Lila's involved in now, a huge VACATION, an emptying out of > the junk of her life. She's clinging to some new pattern because she thinks > it holds back the old pattern. But what she has to do is take a vacation > from ALL patterns, old and new, and just settle into a kind of emptiness for > a while. And if she does, the culture has a moral obligation not to bother > her. The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to > move onward." (Lila, p 376) > > > > Her also talks about the Dharmakaya light all through these last chapters > and he remarks that he'd seen that light around Lila, way back in the > beginning. The "quality" he saw was her dynamic nature, she was already > beginning to break up, the static patterns of her life were already > beginning to unravel. At the end of such a process one can come out the > other side better than before. Or you can remain a culture of one and be > locked up forever, like common criminal without the respect. Regenerate or > degenerate. It goes both ways. > > > Or you can go with Rigel and become a church lady. > > > > > > > > > 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
