In a message dated 11/30/01 3:57:26 AM GMT Standard Time, enoonan@kent.edu
writes:
<< Subj: MD I seem to be a verb
Date: 11/30/01 3:57:26 AM GMT Standard Time
From: enoonan@kent.edu (enoonan)
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Hello,
I've just recently started browsing the MOQ website. I am particularly
interested in how language and psychology. In Lila Pirsig mentions that
using
a subject-object approach to insanity will only lead to patternerned
solutions
and that a mystic approach is needed. If you take this advice with a
comment
by the author R.A. Wilson on zen experience "I seem to be a verb" it is
really interesting (i think he mentions the idea is origninally from Ezra
Pound).
Grammar can be broken down to Subject-Verb-Object. I think Wilson's idea
expresses Pirsig beautifully. If you think of yourself as a verb or process
rather than an object you are less likely to be static.
I also have interest in what this says about psychology. Most psychology to
me
seems to promote having a stable, strong sense of self to be "healthy" .
Wilson and I think Pirsig are arguing you this stable sense of self is
static.
How can you have a really stable sense of self and still be dynamic? Does a
mystic have both?
>>
Every time 'i' refer to 'myself' as 'I' it sticks in my throat.
One of the problems of being freed by the MOQ is that one continually
discovers one is disgusted by the SOM detritus.
Squonk. :-)
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