Sometimes it is good just to put the top down on that cart and just FLY!!!
On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:49 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > 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 ___ 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
