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Pirsig repeatedly issues the same sort of warning with respect to intellectual
static patterns. Metaphysics is a 30,000 page menu but we ought not try to eat
the menu. We don't mistake static intellectual portraits of DQ for DQ itself
either. Static patterns of either kind can help evoke an experience of the
"transcendent", if you're lucky, but the opposite effect is far more likely. A
"transcendent" experience is more likely to shatter those fossilized, brittle
and rigid truths of the past than affirm them.
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>I think that the key to experiencing the "transcendent" (in ritual or in
>free but disciplined form) is contemplative SILENCE. Static patterns,
>meditation, space, time, self are "noise", but valuable noise. When the noise
>fades, amazing surprise of "the transcendent", DQ, or whatever equivalent term
>is available, emerges. The experience may be sustained, or sustains itself
>only for a few brief moments because the mind intrudes to define it. Whatever
>the the definition, it's noise again. Ah, but the experience raises the Self
>to high quality. If you're lucky.
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>May Yahweh bless you and keep you!
>May Yahweh let his face shine on you, and be gracious to you!
>May Yahweh look kindly on you, and give you his peace! (Num. 6:24-26)
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