Hi Adam,
--- Adam Eurich <sketch2099@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> I've had these same thoughts as you have, and a book
> that really helped me to better understand Quality and
> it's implications was "An Inquiry Into the Good" by
> Kitaro Nishida. In this book Nishida discusses "pure
> experience" (which is the same as Pirsig's Quality),
> why it precedes the subject and object, and, most
> importantly, how this understanding of the the true
> reality effects one's life.
Really, did it (Pirsig's MoQ and Nishida's Pure Experience) change your
life? I've read Nishida's book, and was very impressed by it at the
time, but as yet it remains 'just' an intellectual eye-opener for me.
That is, in the philosophies of mind and matter and reality and all,
it's nearly always centered in either a materialistic, or idealistic
(subjective) point of view. Nishida and Pirsig are remarkable exeptions
to the rule, and I find it interesting how they try to make a coherent
philosophy or M without pre-supposing objects and/or subjects. But for
me, most of the time this is an intellectual toy; I rarely experience
occasions in which I transcend my ego so to say...
There's, however, a perspective invented by a bunch of 'writers' which
not only stimulates my intellect, but also can put it at rest: That's
the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics as interpreted and
summarized by Danah Zohar: Reality is something unfixed, undetermined; a
set of potentialities. Our thoughts are often uncertain, ambigue, filled
with doubt. But the uncertainty principle, for example, says that this
is an 'objective' feature of reality. Our doubts are real. All those
philosophers and writers having all kind of doubts are trying to reason
their way toward the truth; Quantum physics in a way says we already
know it, even or precisely when we're thinking...
-- I've just read Nishida's chapter on the will: He says for example that "It must be like this" and "I want it to be like this" are not fundamentally different exclamations. Anyhow, I'm too tired (it's 0:12 here) now to pursue matters further, so, all the best, Pat.__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
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