Marsha: Or put in other words: Heaven and Earth are ruthless; To them the Ten Thousand Things are but as straw dogs. The Sage too is ruthless; To him the people are but straw dogs. Yet Heaven and Earth and all that lies between Is like a bellows In that it is empty, but gives a supply that never fails. Work it, and more comes out. Whereas the force of words is soon spent. Far better is it to keep what is in the heart.
(Waley, Arthur, 'The Way & Its Power: A Study of the Tao Te Ching', Chapter 5) On Jan 27, 2013, at 6:55 AM, francisco albano <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > dmb: > 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. >> >> >> >> >> Paco: >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> 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) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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
