J-A, Yes, simultaneously. I have never stated that I reject static quality. To be without static quality would be like perpetual, undifferentiated, mental white-noise.
Marsha On Nov 19, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Jan Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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
