From: Valence (valence10@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 18:59:51 GMT
Hey Erin,
I just wanted to take a crack at this first part of your post...
> PIRSIG:'If you take all this karmic garbage and make yourself feel better
by
> passing it on to others that's normal. That's the way the world works. But
> if you manage to absorb it and not pass it on, that's the highest moral
> conduct of all. That really advances everything, not just you. The whole
> world. If you look at the lives of some of the great moral figures of
> history-Christ, Lincoln, Gandhi, and others- you'll see that that's what
> they were really involved in, the cleansing of the world through the
> absorption of karmic garbage. They didn't pass it on. Their followers
> sometimes did, but they didn't.
> On the other hand, Phaedrus supposed, when you're on the receiving end of
> some karma dump like that it sets you free.'
>
>
> ERIN: can somebody explain what this last sentence means?
RICK
To quote Kris Kristofferson's great lyric from 'Me & Bobby McGee'...
"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." Along these lines
I would also offer up a line delivered by Matthew Broderick in 'the
Freshman'... "There's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed, because
you know things can't possibly get any worse." I would think that this is
the sentiment that Pirsig was getting at in the last sentence of his quote
above. That is, we are never as likely to reevaluate static patterns as we
are when clinging to those patterns has resulted in misfortune. And
reevaluation often opens the door to DQ.
rick
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