Both books begin with bound-downedness and end with a freeing.
MRB
On 11/27/2013 4:10 AM, MarshaV wrote:
"He stood on a mound of sand beside some juniper bushes and said 'Ahhhh!' He threw
out his arms. Free! No idols, no Lila, no Rigel, no New York, no more America even. Just
free! He looked up in the sky and whirled. Ahhh, that felt good! He hadn't whirled like
that for years. Since he was four. He whirled again. The sky, the ocean, the hook, the
bay, spun round and round him. He felt like a Whirling Dervish."
(RMP,'LILA', Chapter 32)
Good book!!!
On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:26 PM, "Michael R. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
It was raining, a little, at the beginning of ZAMM.
Most rain comes from the ocean. : )
MRB
On 11/26/2013 1:53 AM, MarshaV wrote:
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."
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