A Quality event is an experience.
This experience both arises from and creates new quality events, such as the
hub and spokes of a wheel, dancing through the fields, eternally turning for
the better. Lila.
Quality events, or experiences, can presently be had by mankind on 4 levels
of hierarchically (nobly) ordered, evolving patterns of value. These
experiences may be socially and intellectually understood as being:
1) Simple. A relating of values within the same level.
a & b: Simple and Complex self-relation.
2) Complex. A relating of values between two or more levels.
a & b: Simple and Complex environmental relation.
3) Transcendent. A relating of a value with the whole. (Quality).
a & b: Simple and Complex atman-brahman relation.
c: Transcendence of The Transcendental Wheel of Karma.
Static Analytical Analogy of the Intuitive Original Dynamic Event
Quality events of types 1 or 2 are simple or complex experiences which are
seen in a radically empirical manner, through the (very real and reliable)
Dynamic, enduring qualitative functions of physical and mental vision.
Quality events of type 3 are not definable for the reason that they are
experiences of the direct, present, Dynamic, durational quality of the
reality experienced as "simple" or "complex" interactions of different
patterns of value. That which un-defines this definition of the undefinable
is what is meant by 3-c.
Dynamic leading edge = The Self
-that which IS precedent to being is named becoming.
-this genetical order is evolutionary, it endures "verbally"
-before "bob" realizes that "he" "liked" the "song".
A truck drives by this picnic bench on a sunny afternoon.
The horn blows.
The wind flows.
The first empirical quality of experience is Dynamic. It is unmediated,
undefinably yet undeniably Quality. It is known, or experienced,
intuitively.
This first undivided experience of Quality becomes, through social and
intellectual analysis and translation, "quantized" in an infinitely coloured
way. Here we see the "10 000 things" of the Chinese...translated into our
"10 000 values".
The individual's education by and of culture and language "gives strength",
so to speak, - "encourages", "prefers" - the very patterns which it teaches,
which are by definition limited and imperfect, although they thereby become
highly preferable, and therefore probable and predictable, to the relative
exclusion of alternate patterns of intellectual interpretation of that
Dynamic source and essence of the intellect and it's environment.
Pirsig stresses that we must become aware of the fact (value) that that part
of life recognized as "good", "moral", "pleasant", is not secondary to the
persons and things to which these terms normally refer. The world of things
and thoughts rather wheel endlessly around the "sun of Quality", which is
Dynamically creating "all of it...every last bit of", each and every
pre-moment.
Rich
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