On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Andre Broersen <[email protected]>wrote:
> dmb to Ron: > > Right, I don't think of it as killing the intellect. That's what's so > useful about the bike repair metaphor, I think. > > Andre: > Yes, it seems to me (and I hope I am wrong in this) that there is some > confusion about this 'killing' term. It does not mean that you should > destroy them. What Pirsig means is that you 'detach' yourself from > them...when you are [intellectually] stuck. That is, put them aside, do not > cling to them. You should make room for intuition, imagination, creativity. > In other words DQ to 'assist'. Freeing your cup so to speak... .(LILA,p 407) > Well in defense of Bob, Buddha's the one that mentioned killing, he was just using the statement to make a point and yeah, I agree. It's killing attachment to a static pattern, not simply killing a static pattern. Although, since the seeing of any static pattern is largely a matter of attachment (caring) then it's hard to see any functional difference from a hurried glance. When freeing one's cup becomes making a sieve. Andre: > > Use your artistic abilities and potentialities to get you away from the > static that has produced the stuckness (or, for that matter,suffering) in > the first place...whilst at the same time allowing the not forgetting the > difference between the wrench and the screwdriver. > > when the choice is between getting wrenched out of shape, or screwed over, its easy to ignore the value of choice. 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
