Hi Andrea:
You wrote:
> DQ is One, static patterns are many.
True.
> A static pattern is one of many simply because it is a pattern, hence
> different and distinct from another pattern. Static patterns belong to
> space and time and have boundaries, and they are plural!
True.
> Recall that, of course, when Pirsig says that Quality is experience, this
> is not the same thing as when you think of *your* experience (sensations,
> memories, etc.). It is the pure experience that happens in the void before
> the *you* even comes into play.
True.
> You are a static pattern (or collection or
> system thereof, whatever the mainstream MOQ suggests) and process this pure
> experience in your own way, in the form of (subjective) static patterns.
True.
> In
> other words, I think Pirsig (as well as those trained in Zazen-whatever, to
> use your words) postulate the "existence" of an "universal" or
> "fundamental" or "pure" experience that isn't related to the self and
> actually comes before the self itself... This pure experience thus exists
> before any "island of experience". Island of experience (individuals) are
> like different filters through which pure experience is processed, coming
> out in amazingly diverse shapes from each of those filters.
True.
> To me, multiplicity is a matter of impurity. When the mirror of (pure)
> reality is broken, each one of the pieces is an individual and will look at
> the universe from a different viewpoint, which is defined by the specific
> shape of its broken borders.
True.
A series of very high quality intellectual patterns, Andrea. Here's a
quotation from Aziz Nasafi which supports your truths:
"On the death of any living creature, the spirit returns to the spiritual
world, the body to the bodily world. In this, however, only the body is
subject to change. The spiritual world is one single spirit who stands
like unto light behind the bodily world and who, when any single
creature comes into being, shines through it as through a window.
According to the kind and size of the window less or more light enters
the world. The light itself however remains unchanged.
Platt
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