Hi Wim,
'How can we know what we should do?'
'Seek meaning'
There's a subtle distinction I need to make in
equating 'seek meaning' with Dynamic Quality. What's
the problem? It's my opinion that when we think, we
use "pictures." A picture can be a freeze frame of
events or just a memory. To think is to use logic, and
logic needs static objects to operate on. So, to 'seek
meaning' through 'thinking' means we have to use
static objects. And there's a problem with that. What
is it? The pictures we create, the memories, ALWAYS
contain defects of some sort. So, when we DECIDE what
to do, we make the MISTAKE of basing it on PICTURES
and pictures are inaccurate. To 'seek meaning' in this
context is ERRANT. In ADDITION, PICTURES are pliable,
and a person can change the 'meaning' of the pictures
to conform to his own 'drama', his own meaning.
I've made so many errors in my life based on feeding
the drama that I adopted to give my life meaning. So
I've worked hard to distinguish between when I am
feeding my lie and when I am being authentic. So how
do I know what to do now? Well, if PICTURES are
involved, then I usually don't trust it. I have
learned to "hear" the dynamic voice in my body and I
have to learn to trust that. I sometimes fail and I
follow my old picture oriented drama. But WHEN I do
follow my dynamic voice, the results are phenomenal.
So I don't think you have to wait to find out if you
acted right. Here is an example: I had 2 events to go
to one night: one event was old friends who feed my
old lie and the other event was Jane Siberry concert.
I fought with the decision 'what to do?' I finally
listened to my dynamic voice and went to the Jane
Siberry concert. I was late, so the lady GAVE me a $25
ticket for free. That was proof right there that it
was the thing to do.
So I think you have to be careful with SEEK MEANING.
There is that BAD DRAMA that we all have (Nietzsche
went into depth about this). Seeking meaning in that
drama is bad (or lower quality). But seeking meaning
in a dynamic drama of your life is good (or better).
How to know the voice? It's a struggle everyday to
tune into it. So that's my reappraised answer. Good
question. Makes me think. And fight.
Angus
> I summarized my metaphysics 27/11 14:09 as:
> "we experience (epistemology) quality (ontology) and
> seek Meaning
> (meta-ethics)."
> I summarized Pirsig's MoQ as: "we experience quality
> and only
> history will show whether we chose to be a savior or
> a
> degenerate. In other words: Pirsig's answer to 'How
> can we know
> what we should do?' is 'You can't'."
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