From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 14:49:52 GMT
Hi Paul, All:
Paul writes:
> Glasses are as real as eyes and hot asphalt is as real as
> burning feet. Enlightenment is an absence of conceptualised perception, not
> an absence of reality. I speculate that the experience of hot asphalt would
> become indistinguishable from a sensation of pure negative quality.
If enlightenment simply means becoming aware that reality exists prior to
our thoughts about it, why all the fuss? It's patently obvious that
reality existed before I was born and was taught to think, so why consider
this to be some sort of big deal revelation? To those imbued with life,
survival is what matters, and for us humans to survive requires as an
absolute necessity that we conceptualize in order to avoid being run over
by "illusionary" trucks. Of course, we can goon out on drugs and dance by
the light of the moon, but that won't feed the baby. Mysticism looks more
and more like an escape from the necessities of life. Fortunately, Pirsig
doesn't dwell on it and brings us back to earth by concluding his
philosophy with a realistic, "That's good dog."
Regards,
Platt
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