From: Charles Roghair (ctr@pacificpartssales.com)
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 15:33:13 BST
Right on, Charles.
On Sep 27, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Charles Vanderford wrote:
> Marsha wrote..
>
> Re: My question: How does MOQ relate to
> Re: self-knowledge? Quality? SQvsDQ? Intellectual Level? Living a life
> of
> Re: value?
>
> Hi again Marsha.. I like that question. It's a pretty good one and I
> hope some people talk about it. I notice that you ask simpler and
> more direct questions and because of this, I've started reading all
> your posts. You're asking a lot of the same things I want to know,
> too, but don't think I'll find an answer to here.
>
> I dunno if anyone feels the same, but I have a much greater affinity
> for ZMM than Lila. To me, the difference between those books are the
> same as the differences between what you talk about and what most
> others here talk about. It's almost as though you really want to ask
> a genuine question that has to do with your life, your personal
> understanding of Pirsig's ZMM Quality, "excellence," "worth," and
> "goodness" - but it gets so chopped up this forum that by the last
> post you don't recognize your question anymore in it, anywhere. I'm
> certainly not an anti-intellectual, but I feel that the range of this
> forum does not extend much past that realm at all.
>
> I wish there were some way all our lives were recorded somehow and
> there was some way we could all just shut up and see each other
> without pretense, without words. This Quality of Pirsig's, which I
> know is as real as the air I breathe, is present in our relationships
> to the things around us. Quality is an intangible, yet ever-present,
> all-pervading 'force' that is always subtly showing us the way by our
> peace of mind.
>
> I have a question too.. in ZMM, Pirsig's Quality is "excellence,"
> "worth," and "goodness," to use his exact words. But in Lila,
> Pirsig's greatest good is freedom, pure dynamic Quality. Freedom is
> good, yes, but does anyone feel that DQ and ZMM Quality don't exactly
> match up?
>
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