Hi Marsha Simultaneously is the right word, experiencing BOTH dynamic quality AND static quality. Quite different from neither nor. All words, concepts and letters we are using are static patterns. Together they show what's behind and in between. That is why some of us here try to show some respect for words and patterns. There is always something interesting in the combinations, isn't it?
Best Jan Anders 19 nov 2012 kl. 10.06 skrev MarshaV: > > Greetings, > > Do you think enlightenment, or "the mystical," is levitating three feet above > the ground? Or might it be nothing fancy, merely an expanded and deeper > understanding/insight/experience of reality, a remaking of one's relationship > to knowing? Hasn't RMP stated that the ideal is to experience the Dynamic > point-of-view simultaneously with the static point-of-view? > > > Marsha > > > On Nov 19, 2012, at 3:01 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> "When early Western investigators first read the Buddhist texts they too >> interpreted nirvana as some kind of suicide. There's a famous poem that >> goes: >> >> While living, >> Be a dead man. >> Be completely dead, >> And then do as you please. >> And all will be well. >> >> "It sounds like something from a Hollywood horror-film but it's about >> nirvana. The Metaphysics of Quality translates it: >> >> While sustaining biological and social patterns >> Kill all intellectual patterns. >> Kill them completely >> And then follow Dynamic Quality >> And morality will be served. >> >> ... >> >> "When Phaedrus first went to India he'd wondered why, if this passage of >> enlightenment into pure Dynamic Quality was such a universal reality, did it >> only occur in certain parts of the world and not others? At the time he'd >> thought this was proof that the whole thing was just Oriental religious >> baloney, the equivalent of a magic land called 'heaven' that Westerners go >> to if they are good and get a ticket from the priests. Now he saw that >> enlightenment is distributed in all parts of the world just as the color >> yellow is distributed in all parts of the world, but some cultures accept it >> and others screen out recognition of it." >> >> (LILA, Chapter 32) >> >> * * * * * * * * * * * * * >> >> The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience >> but to bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing, >> static, intellectual attachments of the past. " >> >> (LILA, Chapter 9) >> >> >> _____________ >> >> >> > 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
