Matt,
I would never ask you to defend reading. Reading is my addiction too, and a healthy addiction it is. I have a MLS because of the passion in my heart for books, reading, information. So no, you never-ever need to defend reading to me. Ahh, but from my experience, mediation is an ancient and well tested path to Quality(unpatterned experience/patterned experience.) Peace, Marsha On Nov 26, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Matt Kundert wrote: > > Hi Marsha, > > Marsha said: > I do not feel the need to defend mediation. In my experience it has > much insightful knowledge to offer, but obviously it will not appeal > to everyone. > > Marsha added: > Well, I hope you know I meant meditation, not mediation. > > Matt: > That's at least the second time you used "mediation" where I've > expected "meditation," and I always took it to be a typo, but it's an > interesting mistake because I do think, on the philosophical scale, > one needs to defend the use of mediation as a metaphor in > describing the function of language. Or at least, explain why one > should use it to those who don't want to. (Though, on a personal > scale, we don't really need to defend anything.) > > Perhaps that's where we get crossed: I make you feel like you need > to defend meditation (which I don't intend, and don't think anyone > needs to defend) and you make me feel like I need to defend reading > (which you don't intend, and don't think anyone needs to defend). > > Matt > >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:57:12 -0500 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [MD] Ah-ha Qua Ah-ha >> >> >> Hi Matt, >> >> I love it when you participate, and believe your literary point- >> of-view has valuable insight. Imho, your prose have gotten >> more beautiful, but some of your words and phrases are still not >> worth the effort. I like my intellectuals to provide plains-spoken >> explanations, and many do. While I may get frustrated, I don't >> get angry. These are words, ideas, patterns; they may be >> important one minute and vanish the next. Also, I have a good >> internal eraser. >> >> I do not feel the need to defend mediation. In my experience >> it has much insightful knowledge to offer, but obviously it will >> not appeal to everyone. My enthusiasm is no more than an >> expression of the positive effect its had on my life experiences. >> I also like to read, no, love to read. And I, too, have learned new >> and interesting perspectives from books. The Lear book, for >> instance, offered a perspective I might have never considered except >> through reading. The ideas were very interesting. I will soon start >> 'The Surrounded'. Thanks for the great recommendations. >> >> >> Marsha ___ 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
