Snip from Dan "I suspect you already have 'DQ' in your life. As living beings we all do. The thing is though, we become distracted by the shiny pretty things that permeate our reality from the time we wake till the time we go back to sleep. The magic's gone, replaced by the latest technological innovations, the newest iPhone, the next generation LED, etc..." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Dan,long time no see."The magic's gone,....i'll kept on reading this line for some minutes asking myself where the magic went. I do not think it's ever gone,or absent entirely but just maybe we become lazy or losse a part of our natural wonder and curiosity. I wonder, could i still feel or expierience wonder when i discover an owl's nest or a little salamander when i'm fishing? I think i do. But i also think that a certain numbness comes along in life.Still , writing like you do, is a constant playing with an unfolding reality,full of wonder and new things to shape. My fingers are rusty to typ, as is my English,but things will improve beause i'm retired nowadays.
Adrie 2015-03-29 10:15 GMT+02:00 Dan Glover <[email protected]>: > Hey, > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:27 AM, ngriffis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ron wrote: "... The passions are rejected. Pirsig, on the other hand, > seems > > to place more importance on emotion and feeling as a guiding principle > > toward intellect." > > > > To shift Ron's meaning a bit, I wonder if the forum members would > > agree that Pirsig places importance on emotion and feeling as a guiding > > principle toward Dynamic Quality? Further, I would like to broach the > > subject of how one goes about seeking Dynamic Quality (DQ) in one's life. > > Let us hope that there are easier paths than insanity to reach DQ > insights > > :) > > > > I must say that I have benefitted, not from my own cutting edge > > thoughts, but have only been able to add quality to my life through the > work > > of others. I have gained most of my insights into the static and DQs of > the > > world through reading. There is so much great knowledge in the world, > but so > > few instruction books on how to effectively apply it to one's life. As a > > teacher, I see so much missing in this regard.... OK, I know I want more > DQ > > in my life, but how do I go about getting it? > > Dan: > I work a rather mundane job in order to finance my writing. In fact, > my entire life revolves around these words. At the same time though, > when people ask me where my ideas come from, I can't say, at least not > definitively. If I sit down intending to write something, it's all > shit. Maybe it's like trying to go to sleep. The more you work at it, > the farther away it becomes. > > I suspect you already have 'DQ' in your life. As living beings we all > do. The thing is though, we become distracted by the shiny pretty > things that permeate our reality from the time we wake till the time > we go back to sleep. The magic's gone, replaced by the latest > technological innovations, the newest iPhone, the next generation LED > television, just step right up and pick your poison, son. > > > > > So, I hope that other members of the MOQ Forum will share any of > the > > methods they have developed which allow them access to DQ insights that > have > > bettered their lives. > > Dan: > Insights arise at the damnedest times... while I'm taking a shower or > driving somewhere or working at some mindless task. When I'm really > wrapped up in my writing I often get stuck. What I mean is, the plot > has holes in it that I can't quite fill. I get to worrying it. Working > it. Mulling it. And when I'm pretty much ready to say the hell with it > all and set the manuscript aside for a few days and work on something > else, wham! I see the solution. > > > > > My best contribution comes from, I think, Warren Buffet, who is > said > > to be one of the greatest investors of our time. One could call him a > > philosopher of investing. He and his partner, Charlie Munger have some > good > > insights in to Life, as well. Buffet talked about his "intuition", the > > source of that "intuition", and those feelings that led him to his great > > successes. He said, to paraphrase, "that intuition without great and > > hard-won experience is guessing and, more than not, runs you upon the > rocks. > > Intuition becomes the leap of insight that is of value (DQ?) only after > > great study and experience." Why? I think it touches upon the idea that > > genius, in one form, is the ability to rearrange what is known and with a > > leap of insight, create a new and better form, something not imagined > > before. One's mind has nothing to work with unless it has been filled > with > > the wisdom and insights that have come before. Additionally, Charlie > Munger > > added that, in this day of specialization, the more fields one > accomplishes > > oneself in, perhaps the greater possibility of a synergy resulting in a > new > > and better transmutation...a transformative insight moving us from > static to > > DQ. > > Dan: > I don't know much about investing. Money is cool and all but it never > mattered enough to me that I'd make a concerted effort to get more of > it. Most times my shoes are fairly tired out and my blue jeans are > cratered with holes. My bad, I guess. I do know a little about > writing, though. > > There is a difference between a good writer and a talented writer. The > good writer follows all the rules, dots all the i's and crosses all > the t's. They are punctuation perfect. Their sentence structure is > sound. They use all the words correctly. Yet the words they write seem > empty, bereft of feeling. There is no wow to them. > > The talented writer knows all the rules but doesn't stop there. They > develop a style all their own. Their words sing with an other-world > melody. Their sentences might not be complete. Punctuation might be > nonexistent. They might use a word in a way no one ever thought of > doing before. When someone else reads their writing they might be > offended. They might be embarrassed. But in the end, they say wow. > > > > > I would offer meditation as a path to DQ, but I have terrible > > discipline when it comes to sitting and also believe that Attention > Deficit > > Disorder keeps my meditations down to about a minute and a half. > > Dan: > Yeah, I got all kinds of excuses too. Hell, I have a million of them. > Still, I sit for a minute and then another. Started running last > year... June I think it was. Kept it up through the fall. Come winter, > I wondered how I'd manage it being as I live in northern Illinois and > I don't much like the cold. I discovered the hardest part of running > is just getting my ass out there. Once I'm hitting the pavement, I set > little goals... make it down the block... make it another half a > block, make it back to my house... go on and run a little more. Maybe > I should mention I turn 60 in a week and haven't run since high > school. Everyone told me I shouldn't run. Too hard on the knees. Too > hard on the body. That I'm too old. It's too cold out there. Stay > inside, dude. Get a treadmill. Better yet, just quit running. Sit and > watch tv like the rest of us. So yeah, I got all kinds of excuses to > use not to run. But I do it anyway. One step at a time. > > > Has anyone > > had better luck with any of the Eastern disciplines to attain increased > DQ > > in their lives, a path, I think, Pirsig alludes to. > > Dan: > No, not really. > > Thanks, > Dan > > http://www.danglover.com > 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 > -- parser 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
