But the point, Marsha, with using a concept, a static pattern about stability is to point at something that does NOT change.
You seem to call for something stable and unchanged about your own view when you say; "I have pointed out many times", don't you? Or are you able to change your own opinion, too? Or why should you burn the clay? J A 14 apr 2013 kl. 08.43 skrev MarshaV: > > Greetings, > > > Dynamic Quality is indivisible, undefinable and unknowable - unpatterned. > There is nothing differentiable within Dynamic Quality to be changing; it is > static patterns that change. > > "It’s fairly obvious from reading Pirsig’s texts that SOM is perceived by him > as an example of ignorant thinking. Briefly, this is due to such systems > ignoring the reality of Dynamic Quality. Why this is particularly ignorant is > explained by the ‘Three Aspects’ of the Cittamatra school of Mahayana > Buddhism. Williams (1988, p.83) states that the First Aspect refers to the > falsifying activity of language which implies independent and permanent > existence to things. As Hagen -202- (1997, p.30) notes, one of the most > fundamental truths noted by the Buddha is that all aspects of our experience > are in constant flux and change. According to the Buddha, when a person > ignores this truth they subject themselves to dukkha." > > -202- Pirsig (1998b) notes that Hagen‘s text Buddhism: Plain & Simple ‘…shows > the similarities, between the MOQ and Zen Buddhism more clearly than any > other I have seen.’ " > > (McWatts, MoQ Textbook) > > Marsha: > I have pointed out many times, it is not anti-intellectual or a contradiction > to understand that patterns may maintain a static, stable identity at the > same time as they and their context are undergoing constant change. Think of > the Ship of Theseus, or a parade (Hume) where everyone drops out but is > replaced so that the parade is maintained, or the body with its cells > constantly being replaced. Things can change - flow - and yet have > permanence; think of a river. > > > Marsha > > > > 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
