From: platootje@netscape.net
Date: Mon Jul 04 2005 - 16:00:28 BST
Michael Hamilton <thethemichael@gmail.com> wrote:
>I never once thought of Pirsig's writings as suggesting that we should
>"de-value" our experiences. I thought that the "value-free" scientific
>materialist worldview was exactly what Pirsig was trying to combat. I
>would prefer to say that by letting go of our *attachment* to our
>habitual value-judgements, we can come to see value where before we
>were blind to it, and eventually come to see the value in everything,
>thus experiencing the unity that you speak of. Would you agree with
>this interpretation?
>
Well, this is the tricky part. I certainly don't mean going back to a value-free SOM. But there is a difference. Here the distinction between dynamic and static quality is important. IMO, SQ from a human POV is the value that ZEN wants to get rid off. If you look at the evolution and the 4 levels, you'll see that the % SQ decreases while %DQ increases. SQ was once DQ but because the attachement to that particular kind of DQ was strong it became SQ. It's a whole different subject all together, but my point is that if you don't judge, there's only one kind of dynamic quality.
(Reading this back doesn't give me much satisfaction about what I wrote, it always seems that putting my thoughts in writing means losing a lot, as if you force DQ to become SQ ;-)
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