From: Paul Turner (paul@turnerbc.co.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 09 2005 - 16:43:26 BST
Scott, DMB,
>Scott:
>If the terms 'divided' and 'undivided' are one such pair, then why do you
>blithely talk about "realizing the undivided reality behind those
>conceptual
>pairs of opposites."? Doing so raises the undivided above the divided, and
>that is a mistake.
Paul: I think the apprehension of undivided DQ, the emptying out of static
patterned divisions, is only privileged to the extent that it allows new and
better ones to emerge. I don't think Pirsig thinks it is the ultimate goal
or the terminus of Zen discipline or art or any other activity.
"In [the "Gateless Gate"] analogy, as one approaches the gate, it seems to
be a goal, but after one has passed through and looks back he sees there
never was any gate Translating back into the MOQ, one can say that Dynamic
Quality is a goal from a static point of view, but is the origin of all
things from a Dynamic understanding." [LILA'S CHILD Annotation 69]
As such, I don't think Dynamic Quality is considered by Pirsig to be a fixed
'centre' - although maybe it is a temporary one.
Regards
Paul
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