Andre,
The purpose of writing for a dust cover is quite different than writing a
personal note to a student of the MoQ, one who is working on his MoQ
dissertation. What he wrote to Anthony:
"While I am thinking about it there is a very good book on Buddhism recently
out called 'Buddhism, Plain and Simple', by Steve Hagen and published by Tuttle
Publishing. I recommend you get it because it shows the similarities, between
the MOQ and Zen Buddhism more clearly than any other I have seen."
(Pirsig to McWatt, May 6th 1998.)
This is a wonderful book and an important recommendation from the MoQ's side.
Marsha
On Sep 9, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Andre Broersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Marsha to Ron:
> Explanations are conventional, and Nagarjuna must use conventional language
> and relative truths to teach and point the way to the ultimate goal, nirvana.
> In the same way RMP uses convention static patterns to point the way to
> Dynamic Quality, the moon. Imho.
>
> Andre:
> I beg to differ with this one, eventhough the 'Imho' is a way out of course
> for Lucy. What she is asserting is that RMP developed his MoQ '...to point
> the way to Dynamic Quality, the moon'. I think he developed the MoQ NOT as a
> set of meditative injunctions (which is what it would boil down to then) but
> to improve the world a little bit. Otherwise forget about metaphysics.(LILA)
>
> This means recognizing we live in a conventional world 'conditioned' through
> static manifestations and creations, the 'ground' of which is recognized to
> be DQ. If the MoQ were merely a way to point to the moon through its static
> patterns he would not have said what he did on the cover of Hagan's 'Buddhism
> Plain and Simple': 'If you're looking for enlightenment rather than just
> scholarly knowledge, you'd better read this'.
>
> The MoQ can be seen as the need for an expansion of scholarly knowledge. Not
> only what has existed and needing to be re drafted but the creation of high
> value intellectual knowledge with which to guide and improve the world a
> little bit AS WELL AS continually working on your bicycle.
>
> This also means taking responsibility for the views one expresses. Views (the
> MoQ shows us) that ought to go beyond the mere 'personal' experiences of the
> individual.
>
> This warped one-sided perspective (Lucy takes) is typical of the confused
> state she desperately seeks to justify. She even uses Nagarjuna to defend her
> plot.
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