On Mar 11, 2013, at 10:12 AM, ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR <[email protected]> wrote:
> Arlo]
> On a simple level, its confirmation bias, of course. Part of the "enlightened
> prophet" schtick is to simply reject any and all evidence that challenges
> your claim. I mean, its not rocket science that in order to make his
> "enlightened salvation of Pirsig" work he has to openly and aggressively
> reject Pirsig's text as authority on Pirsig's views.
RMP:
"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)
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