Hi MRB, I agree with you. The act of creating words is DQ in action. We have no idea how we do this. This brings DQ closer to our reality than simply something "out there" which we will never know. We know DQ every second of our lives, there is no escaping it.
A world of static quality has been surmised by the intellect. This SQ is used as an intellectual barrier to distance DQ. However, this barrier is full of holes. For example SQ cannot be used to describe SQ. By way of example, a math equation cannot describe what math is. One must step outside of math to describe it. The trap which is set by some in MOQ is that we cannot step outside of SQ. This then becomes a paradox which is self fulfilling. The holes in this form of argument show many ways to get out of it. The act of doing something without first thinking about it, is one such hole. Once that present tense is seen as DQ, then one is free. We have never been bound by SQ, for such a thing is simply a self imposed prison. Sometimes it takes a while to tear down the walls that one has built, but MoQ provides a way. Once the concept of "the ghost of reason" is fully incorporated into daily life, SQ loses its hold on one's life and can be held at arms length. This is following DQ, and observing the wake it leaves. This is Quality Awareness that Pirsig tries so desperately to describe. MOQ seeks to describe such a thing since it is the metaphysics of Quality Awareness. Such a description will never replace Quality, but we all know that so we do not get trapped by the words. Cheers, Mark On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Michael R. Brown <[email protected]>wrote: > Words don't do justice to DQ descriptively but their spontaneous emergence > can. That can be part of the cutting edge of awareness. > > ( D.H. Lawrence does a great job in "Lady Chatterley's Lover" showing > spontaneous words and phrase-fragments coming to Connie's mind as she > begins to awaken. ) > > Actions, too: dancing! > > > MRB > > -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Maurer > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 12:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] dark night > > Hi Mark, > > Why use two words DQ/SQ when one will do? The freedom to make something up > in metaphysics is judged by agreement to existence not by being a word > smith. > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/**listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-**moqtalk.org<http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org> > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/**pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.**org/<http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/> > http://moq.org/md/archives.**html <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
