Hi John,
The first Buddhist credo is "Life is suffering." BUT
there are 2 ways to interpret that simple statement. A
fact based approach would be to say it means "there is
suffering in life." It is a statement of fact where
the description takes precedence (a static quality
interpretation). A second interpretation would be a
value based approach along the lines of Pirsig:
"through suffering, there is life." Or, to live
properly, one is to suffer your suffering (a Dynamic
Quality interpretation). If you turn to your
suffering, bountiful spiritual life is open to you.
You could write it this way "life is SUFFERING" or
this way "LIFE is suffering" and they are 2 different
meanings. It's like music and syncopation, you can
stress different parts of the meaning and get a
different result. When Pirsig says "life is suffering"
I think he means "LIFE is suffering." Suffer your
suffering and you will see Quality. There are 2
parallel realities: sq and DQ, fact and value. You can
choose either. But it's a balance that we all need to
get to.
Angus
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