Did the Wright brother pursue flight because of suffering? I don't think so...
On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:46 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > J-A, > > On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Jan-Anders Andersson wrote: > >> Hi Marsha >> >> Before you dive into the deep. Have you ever read this? It's an excerpt from >> a letter written by RMP to Anthony McWatt, March 23, 1997: >> >> " ... >> The MOQ is in agreement with the Buddhist law of Dependent Origination and >> regards this law as an excellent explanation of how Dynamic Quality becomes >> static patterns of quality. The Buddhists however, say that the source of >> patterns is ignorance, whereas the MOQ says the source of the patterns is >> the "nothingness" of Dynamic Quality. It seems to me that this is >> self-contradictionary for the Buddhists to say that that the world is all >> nothingness and then in almost in the same breath say that everything we >> know arises from something that is not nothingness. This separates >> nothingness and not-nothingness into a deadly dualism. When it is said that >> the static patterns arise from Dynamic Quality the non-dualistic view of the >> world so characteristic of Buddhism is preserved. > >> The MOQ says, as does Buddhism, that the best place on the wheel of karma is >> the hub and not the rim where one is thrown about by the gyration of >> everyday life. But the MOQ sees the wheel of karma as attached to a cart >> that is going somewhere - from quantum forces through inorganic forces and >> biological patterns and social patterns to the intellectual patterns that >> percieve the quantum forces. In the sixth century B.C. in India there was no >> evidence of this kind of evolutionary progress, and Buddhism, accordingly, >> does not pay attention to it. Today it's not possible to be so uninformed. >> The suffering which the Buddhists regard as only that which is to be >> escaped, is seen by the MOQ as merely the negative side of the progression >> toward Quality (or, just as accurately, the expansion of quality.) Without >> the suffering to propel it, the cart would not move forward at all. >> ..." >> 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
