Hello everyone On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:22 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > dmb says: > As Pirsig points out in a not yet published forward to Lila, the three main > characters are composed of different levels of value and that is why they do > not like each other or even understand each other. Lila is dominated by > biological values. Intellectually she is nowhere and socially - as a former > prostitute with mental health issues - she is about as far down the scale as > one can get. Rigel is dominated by social level values. He doesn't care if > the MOQ makes sense or not, he just knows it doesn't conform with his very > conventional ideas about what's moral. And then there is the intellectual > author. About the only thing that Lila and Rigel have in common is that they > both dislike his fancy book learning and feel put down or put off by it. And > it seems to me that Rigel has fewer options because intellectual values are > off the table for him and Lila is more or less reduced to basic survival and > has about as much freedom as a sophisticated animal.
Hi David So there is a new LILA edition coming out soon? How interesting! > > I mean, enlightenment is not the same thing as regression, retardation, > reduction or the lack of growth. Peace of mind and suicide are two completely > different things. The lack of attachment is not the same thing as apathy or > nihilism or otherworldly, life-hating asceticism. The MOQ's ideas are > supposed to serve life, not deny or negate it. Dan: Yes, although strictly speaking there is no enlightenment, per se. I think what you mean is that by the gradual perfection of static intellectual quality, we come to see there is something better. Is that right? Thank you, Dan 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
