Hello everyone On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Joseph Maurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan and All, > > Pirsig proposes a metaphysical difference between DQ and SQ. DQ is > indefinable experience and SQ is definable experience. Seeing the Sun is > definable experience. But there is a time lag. Maybe the sun is exploding > while you are watching, and you will need to get into your space ship to > escape destruction from the explosion. DQ is indefinable experience, and > IMHO you will know there is something wrong with the sun, and maybe you can > escape the destruction in your faster than light space ship.
Hi Joe Thank you for writing! Seeing the sun means I have defined what I am seeing. Direct experience comes before the definition of seeing the sun. I cannot speak of it at all. That is how I know without believing; that newly dawning moment of awareness is both full of surprise and yet empty of the prejudice that chains me to words. We are born. We flourish a short while. We pass away. This is called the nature of things. Yes, the sun will one day explode. The earth will wither into a burnt blackened husk. That's why we should cherish what we have, today. Right now. There is no escape for any of us. I remember as a young boy watching my great grandmother plant an apple tree. It was but a sapling. She told me with a twinkle in her eyes how one day she would be able to bake pies made from the apples grown on that tree. Even then I wondered at the wisdom of such an old woman planning to pluck such a harvest. Didn't she realize that she would never live long enough to see even one apple from that tree? I didn't understand a thing. Perhaps I still don't... Thank you, Dan http://www.danglover.com 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
