From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 22 2004 - 15:49:52 GMT
Platt wrote:
> I put Dynamic Morality, the Code of Art, above the intellectual level. You
> can rationalize anything, but you really haven't got it until you reveal
> its harmony, its beauty.
Arlo says:
I agree with Platt here. I've taken from Pirsig the understanding that the only
way to "experience" DQ is from a pre-linguistic, pre-verbal, pre-semiotic,
indeed pre-thought "awareness". The minute you put DQ into any language system,
you are "sorting the sand into piles" (from ZMM), and having done so have
separated yourself from "the endless landscape". One point of contact between
Buddhism and the MOQ is in its pointing towards freeing ourselves from our
structured thoughts to experience Quality (DQ). One of the powers of music and
art is precisely in its ability to push us out of these our structured thought
patterns. Meditative processes can do this too. The Koans were used
specifically for this purpose. The peyote ritual described in LILA, another
one. But for most of us in the West, Art and Music are the two most often
practices used to "break free" of static thought and "experience" DQ.
Arlo
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