The difference between 'Quality' and 'Dynamic Quality' has been a perennial confusion within the MOQ. It is hard for me to understand how the term Quality can be sensibly understood as anything that exists apart from its use as a shorthand for the two types of quality - DQ and SQ - taken together. In other words, the idea that Quality is sliced up into DQ and SQ explains the kinds of Quality we have, not that DQ and SQ emanated from some well-spring of Quality; not that Quality is more primary than DQ and SQ; not that we have a trinity. DQ is the leading edge of experience and SQ is the creation left in its wake. That is all Pirsig's MOQ says there is.
Pirsig is not always so careful about this in his writing, however, even if it be after chapter 9 or in his post-Lila letters, and often I find him using the term 'Quality' or 'quality' when he is clearly talking about Dynamic Quality and not static quality. Just as for other things that evade scientific understanding, mysticism is most assuredly lumped with DQ by the MOQ. Glenn MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
