Michael, It is interesting and wonderful how each person reflects RMP's words and ideas.
Marsha > On Nov 25, 2013, at 5:15 PM, "Michael R. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > > And so we make our way from the precision motorcycle on the hard man-made > road at the beginning of ZAMM to the strange, shocked, empty, open clarity of > a boat-in-water at the end of Lila. > > Is this not like another famous closing? “So we beat on, boats against the > current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” > > Perhaps we've gone from the adolescence of "On the Road" to every life's > getting -ready for a great sea-voyage. > > > MRB > >> On 11/25/2013 4:21 AM, MarshaV wrote: >> >> >> "Then, on impulse, Phædrus went over to his bookshelf and picked out a >> small, blue, cardboard-bound book. He'd hand-copied this book and bound it >> himself years before, when he couldn't find a copy for sale anywhere. It was >> the 2,400-year-old Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu. He began to read through the >> lines he had read many times before, but this time he studied it to see if a >> certain substitution would work. He began to read and interpret it at the >> same time. >> >> "He read: >> >> "The quality that can be defined is not the Absolute Quality. >> >> "That was what he had said. >> >> "The names that can be given it are not Absolute names. >> >> "It is the origin of heaven and earth. >> >> "When named it is the mother of all things -- . >> >> "Exactly. >> >> "Quality [romantic Quality] and its manifestations [classic Quality] are in >> their nature the same. It is given different names [subjects and objects] >> when it becomes classically manifest. >> >> "Romantic quality and classic quality together may be called the ``mystic.'' >> >> "Reaching from mystery into deeper mystery, it is the gate to the secret of >> all life. >> >> "Quality is all-pervading. >> >> "And its use is inexhaustible! >> >> "Fathomless! >> >> "Like the fountainhead of all things -- >> >> "Yet crystal clear like water it seems to remain." 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
