Hi Khoo, (and Ron mentioned) ... I like that - the need to inhabit the cusp between the chaotic and the static. Finding the sweet spot as Mark put it.
Of course to inhabit such a place is itself dynamic - I'm reminded of Douglas Adams' Restaurant and the End of the Universe - rocking back and forth across the cusp. Sometimes (Ron) we have to put static words in emails on a discussion forum, sometimes we need to "live" over the edge, but mostly we need to remember the point is to live at the cusp - and recognise the Scylla and Charybdis on either side. Ian On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Khoo Hock Aun <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > > > Its been a long while. Here is a short reflection on navigating Quality (or > getting a grip on Reality). > > > > Between Chaos and Order is a place where patterns of static quality are > best used as griphandles when we weave from point to point across the > multiverses of Dynamic Quality. Our consciousness constantly projects both > these experienced and created static patterns from the everchanging > dynamic, to seek an explanation for the Chaos. > > > We all navigate to get somewhere in each of our realities and sometimes > mistake these griphandles of static patterns as ends in themselves. We can > actually end up in the grip of the griphandle. The truth is that none of > these griphandles ever last, formed for our purposes, dissolving after we > are gone and our need passed, but perpetuated by a humanity in search of > something that is permanent. > > An order of things, or if you like, patterns of static quality, have been > constructed to navigate the oceans of seeming chaos. The order of things > that emanates from our primary griphandle; that of a static self, is > regarded the only reality we know as long as our self exists. This sense of > self persists even as the set of energy patterns that make up our > biological person change constantly. No one second are they exactly the > same. > > > What is the "us", then that does this navigating of the dynamic multiverses > ? The Hindus would have us as the smaller souls seeking the Greater Soul, > or generalising, little pockets of dynamic quality seeking return to the > Source. In the Eastern worldview, the "self" is but the epitome of only the > social level. It diminishes when the idea of community emerges. It > dissolves when the idea of universality takes hold. > > The Western worldview sets the individual "self" as the height of the > intellectual level; because it’s our "self" that does the thinking of > thoughts, the basic building blocks of all intellect. Sounds terribly > Cartesian, but as a static grip handle, it has persisted and been > perpetuated. > > In the Eastern worldview, the individual is a temporary grip handle, > incidental to the intellect. The intellectual level transcends the person. > The thoughts once expressed belong to humanity. The personal fortune or > destiny of the individual thinker is not a function of the intellect. No > individual self determination here. It’s all karma, and thoughts find the > thinker, creativity becomes synchronicity, when the universes conspires > with you to come together. > > Yes, human rights belong at the intellectual level, but not at the expense > of humanity or the planet for at the hands of a social greedy acquisitive > individual for that matter. Some may argue the free enterprise economic > system is the best evolved template for human progress. Yet it has not > eliminated universal human suffering, nor caused a major treatise on human > happiness to be written. Maybe with the possible exception of the > Metaphysics of Quality. > > > > At the physical level, energy is not equally distributed among static > patterns. At the biological level, complex self sustaining systems compete > to draw energy from the physical world. At the human level, evolving power > structures are social static patterns competing for limited resources. The > thoughts of the intellectual level of the Western world are everywhere in > chains, bounded by the levers of the levels below. For all our great ideas, > injustice prevails everywhere on the planet and self serving systems ensure > that the world's resources are in the hands of a few. > > > > Even as these are the subjects for political or social discourse, left or > right, socialist or capitalist, the intellect may have a field day amongst > those who have the most faculties, but is of little help for the individual > interested to navigate the projections of static quality in the quest for > dynamic quality to achieve equanimity, harmony and peace. > > > > He or she would be more interested in a guide for navigating Quality. Maybe > the Tao of Grip handles may work. : ) > > > > Is there a way to wean the individual from his or her dependency on static > patterns and to consider them only as stepping stones on a pathway ? I can > understand on MD Discuss we use the currency of commonly understood static > patterns. In discussing Dynamic Quality we fall short and fear the fall > into the Chaos. Its the fear of flying, you see. > > > But seriously, in the combined worldview, would not the individual "self" > of the intellectual level transcend each of our own lives and across our > lifetimes connecting the dots amongst the multitude that would otherwise be > the Chaos that engulfs us all. Because you are not attached and prepared to > let go, the imagery of this everchanging interdependent lattice of > griphandles keep you from falling and helps you straddle the comfort of > Order and the calamity of Chaos. > > > > A mastery of what static qualities are and how to navigate them is > essential. Thinking of them as griphandles requires us to know which ones > to clutch, how long to hold on to them and when to let go as we hurtle It > follows that the strategic goal is not a vaultful of static qualities, but > using them adeptly to get to the next point in indeterminate environment of > dynamic quality. Pirsig has already designated static quality the lesser of > the two. Static quality serves the purposes of those who cannot grasp the > fluidity of change. Dynamic is preferable to static for an advanced soul > seeking the Source. But how do we get to Dynamic when we can’t say what it > is ? > > > > One view shows you nothing but Chaos, another, nothing but a static rigid > Order. As a human on the cusp of awareness, in all likelihood, > enlightenment could be when these projections of Order dissolve away, and > with them, our fear of Chaos. Welcome, then, to the World of the Buddhas > Regards > Khoo Hock Aun > > -- > > [email protected] > 6016-301 4079 > 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
