All:
As Walter mentioned recently, DQ has become a reservoir for different
concepts. My problem has always been this: that Pirsig, in splitting Quality
into DQ and spov's, has created a fatal dualism - insuparable at first
sight.
DQ in Lila is presented as what was in ZMM called "Quality" - "direct"
experience, pre-s/o, or pre-spov. Static patterns of value are everything
else - the world, the boxcars.
The trouble with this split is that I find PATTERNS OF VALUE (i.e. - the
experiences of my place, body, culture, philosophy) to be "more or less"
dynamic, or just the same, "more or less" stable - static. (i.e.-infant,
heartattack...) But "dynamic" is already used as a term for Northrop's
"undifferentiated aesthetic continuum" - the Ultimate, Non-Dual Reality
which underlies but includes every thing-and-thought. So applying it to "the
world" causes some linguistic confusion when I/we really get down to the
nitty-gritty of the MOQ.
I offer this:
1) Reality is Quality. Unpatterned, Undefinable, Undivided, God, Tao,
Brahman, etc...
2) Reality is Value. Patterned, Definable, Divided, Earth, Maya, 'Concrete'
things and thoughts, etc...
3) No words apply to Quality, being the generator. "IT" is beyond Good and
evil - see my ramblings on "Advaita Vedanta" by Eliot Deutsch, a few weeks
ago or so.
3) Patterns of Value are More or Less Dynamic/Static, Better or Worse.
Now, we may speak of DQ NOT as "God", but as "God Manifested". When we speak
of spov's, we are speaking of DQ. So, in this way, "DQ" becomes "Dpov".
PLEASE comment!
Gotta go cook some carrots.
Rich
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