> Just a few thoughts to add to what Horse has just said....
>
> There is a passage in Lila where Pirsig says that even an inanimate
> "object" like a chair has dharma. He says that even a chair is composed
> of a moral order. Even "substance" or "matter" is made of Quality.
>
> Maybe the trick is to see that "Quality" is just a metaphor
QUALITY IS THE LEGO PIECES OF THE PUZZLE CALLED "EXISTENCE ACCORDING TO
QUALITY. YOU CANNOT START BUILDING SOMETHING AND CALLING THE BUILDING STONE
A METAPHOR [of what?].
TO ARISTO THE BUILDING BLOCKS WERE CALLED DEFINITIONS, THEY TOO ARE NOT
METAPHORS. METAPHORS CREATE A MORE DISTANT RELATION. YOU NEVER START A
RECOGNITION OF A METAPHOR WITH AN EXPERIENCE, QUALITY IS EXPERIENCED,
DIRECTLY, SO IT IS NOT A METAPHOR. LIFE IS CONFUSING ENOUGH AS IT IS. HERE
WE ARE REQUIRED TO IMAGINE A SHIFT OUR METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATION. THIS IS HARD
AND CONFUSING AS IT IS, SO METAPHORS DON'T HELP.
IN THE EIGHTIES THERE WAS A RUSSIAN FILM DIRECTOR CALLED TRAKOVSKI WHO
DECLARED HIMSELF AS AN ENEMY OF SYMBOLISM AND METAPHORS. IN HIS OPINION WE
NEED AS A CULTURE, TO EXPERIENCE MORE AND METAPHORS ARE NOT HELPING. THIS IS
ALSO A PART OF THE SHIFT FROM ABSTRACT THOUGHT QUALITY BACK TO SENSE
ORIENTED QUALITY. [I have no idea why I wrote this in big letters, it looks
to me like a roman mural], sometime I wonder how to distinguish My writing
from the person I'm answering to. Any other ideas?
and don't forget to be gentle
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