Re: MD Where does quality reside?

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 13:02:28 GMT

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    Hi David M:.

    You asked.
     
    > Would you say there is conflict between this
    > life force and SQ patterns?

    You bet.

    Platt

    > >> msh writes:
    > >>
    > >> > He then goes on to say that Quality, in fact, is the ultimate ONE, and
    > >> > that subjects and objects are created by it. This is the Quality that
    > >> > becomes the fundamental reality of the MOQ he attempts to define in
    > >> > LILA.
    > >
    > > P:
    > >> The ultimate ONE sounds God-like to me.
    > >
    > >> msh says:
    > >> Yes. Similar, I'd say, but without all those troublesome human
    > >> projections: Not loving or caring, but not hateful either, or
    > >> cunning or vengeful; without expectations or desire; without
    > >> opinions: no favored people or nations or baseball teams. Nothing to
    > >> kill or die for.
    > >
    > > Pirsig is clear that DQ (the creative side of Quality) does care and has
    > > a burning desire for -- freedom.
    > >
    > > "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." (Lila, 9)
    > >
    > > A moral force for freedom . . . something millions have died for, and
    > > continue to do so to this day.
    > >
    > > Platt

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