From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 03:52:36 GMT
Dear lovers:
Rick said:
By this explanation of Love, we really can see Love at work in all levels of
the MoQ. Since all patterns at all levels value things, they can love as
well.
DMB says:
Right on. "B values pre-condidtion A". We wouldn't noramally think of cause
and effect in terms of love, but in a way it really is some kind of desire.
Pirsig's description of sexual desire as the height of biological values is
consistent with the way he re-thinks the inorganic.
It seems that Romantic love, as we think of it these days, goes beyond mere
biology. There's something more than animal lust and hormones, even if that
animalistic stuff still plays a huge role. They say Romanitic love hardly
existed before the middle ages. Its like we just invented, or something.
Animals take mates and have families and who can really deny that they feel
love that is not just about sex. As humans, as social level creatures we
have expanded this kind of bond beyond the local group. Patriotism and
ethnic pride seem to be a kind of broader family.
And it seems that compassion for others at the fourth level isn't limited by
the extent of even these bonds, but extents to all people, to all living
things. This takes us up into realms of compassion where angels tread, where
Jesus and Buddha wished us to go. Ever weep for the whole world?
Who knows the limits of love? Not me?
This topic is one where it is especially obvious that we ought not take our
words too literally. We can see that there is a force at work throughout
creation, working at every level and at work in the act of creation itself.
We could just say that "God is Love", but that would just sound like tacky,
sentimental crap and so nobody would hear it. I'm glad Pirsig didn't use the
word to talk about anything important. Damn You, Hallmark!
Jackson Browne's 1976 song THE PRETENDER, is the disillusionment that
followed the hippie era, when love was all you needed, or so they thought.
He laments the drabness of material culture with lines like, "I want to know
what became of the changes we waited for love to bring. Were they only the
fitful dreams of some greater awakening? ... Caught between the longing for
love and the struggle for the legal tender ... Where the ads take aim and
lay their claim To the heart and the soul of the spender." You know the
song, eh? The illusion that he grieves for is that love alone can change the
world and that the normal work a day world seems so love-less, seems to run
on the pursuit of fake love, store bought love. Its the same as Pirsig's
rabbit chase, that mechanical thing that would taste lousey even if you ever
did catch it. But the most hopeful line in that song is the question he
asks? Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening? Our dreams
of love will always break our hearts because its what leads us on, draws us
forward toward something better, even if we don't know what it is. Love is
the lure at the cutting edge of creation. It drives evolution and informs
the very structure of our being.
In other words, God is Love. And so are you.
Thanks for your time,
DMB
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