Hi Richard:
Richard Edgar wrote:
> > Dynamic Quality is completely simple and always new.
>
> is it? from the human point of view, isnt dynamic quality acceptance of all
> static pattern of quality at the same level as the new patterns of quality?
> the book (from my point of view) highlights dynamic quality as that we all
> experience from time to time when presented with something new and exciting.
> from the human level, dynamic quality as a way of life is not just those
> things that are new, it is also looking on the things that are old as if
> they are new.
>
> > Dynamic Quality is freedom from static patterns.
>
> only if it is not new. i should also say that this is down to individual
> perception, who is to say which pattern is static and which is not. this,
> more than anything, i feel, leads to dynamic quality being undefinable,a dn
> no matter how many of these little things people send, you will never define
> it. dynamic quality is dynamic quality. that is as close as you can get,
> as it is beyond our intellectual comprehension as our intellects are created
> by it. if you dont see this, think of science, we can only ever model
> nature, we can never perfect it. the created can never understand the
> creator.
>From Lila, Chap. 9:
“Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of realty, the
source of all things, completely simple and always new. It was the
moral force that had motivated the brujo in Zuni. It contains no
pattern of fixed rewards and punishments. Its only perceived good
is freedom and its only perceived evil is static quality itself—any
pattern of one-sided fixed values that tries to contain and kill the
ongoing free force of life.”
I agree with you when you say we will never define Dynamic
Quality. But we can describe it, as Pirsig does above. After all,
when you say “we will never define Dynamic Quality,” you’re
describing it.
I disagree with your statement, “We can only ever model nature,
we can never perfect it.” Granted, much of nature is locked into
unchangeable static patterns. But we are nature, too, and we can
improve ourselves by responding to Dynamic Quality. Or so the
MOQ claims.
Best,
Platt
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