"Truth is a static intellectual pattern within a larger entity called Quality."
Adrie said to dmb: One day long time ago, a patent office clerck was kinda bored with reality as whe know it, and took a white sheet approach, an empty sheet approach on gravity,relativity,time,speed, etc, and wrote out the complete special relativity theory, and general relativity. none of the facts were derived from value's, none of the value's were derived from facts. At first , there was nothing, after this, it was all there. It seems to be so that it arrived at him in a dynamical way. dmb says: It was arrived at in a dynamical way, yes, but it is very misleading to suggest he began with a blank slate or pulled it out of thin air. Like Poincare, he was already an expert in mathematical and physical thinking and he was deeply immersed in highly abstract thinking prior to the explosion of creativity. These things don't happen in a vacuum, you know? "'Zen monks' daily life is nothing but on ritual after another. Hour after hour, day after day, all his life. They don't tell him to shatter those static patterns to discover the unwritten Dharma, they want him to get those patterns perfect. The explanation for this contradiction is the belief that you do not free yourself from static patterns by fighting them with other contrary static patterns. That is sometimes called 'bad karma chasing its tail.' You free yourself from static patterns by putting them to sleep. That is, you MASTER them with such proficiency that they become an unconscious part of your nature. You get so used to them you completely forget them and they are gone. There in the center of the most monotonous boredom of static ritualistic patterns the Dynamic freedom is found." Pirisg says the same thing in more concrete terms, wherein the artful motorcycle mechanic has to know the tools and the machine, has to have a feel for the work and he has to care about what he's doing. That kind of mastery and proficiency is what allows a dynamic, creative solution. It's paradoxical - as opposed to being a mere contradiction, but Dynamic freedom is found right there in the center of all those static patterns. This point is even clearer in the case of the Poincare. His Dynamic insight was a result of being hip deep in math problems, the result being stuck in a giant pile of very elaborate and very rigid static patterns, and then BAM! Intellectual static patterns are NOT the enemy of creativity. Quite the opposite. They're not enough all by themselves but they are necessary. "If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn’t enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to have a sense of what’s good. That is what carries you forward. This sense isn’t just something you’re born with, although you are born with it. It’s also something you can develop. It’s not just ‘intuition,’ not just unexplainable ‘skill’ or ‘talent.’ It’s the direct result of contact with basic reality, Quality, which dualistic reason has in the past tended to conceal.” ZAMM 284 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
