From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 21 2005 - 16:17:53 BST
Hi Sam,
You asked:
> What is the word 'experience' doing in the MoQ?
Add the adjective "pure" to experience and it's meaning in the MOQ becomes
clear, except that we can't put its meaning in words because that would
divide it making it no longer "pure."
SOM begins right off the bat dividing experience into the experience and
the experiencer, the I and the other. But in the MOQ, there's no such
initial division. Experience in the MOQ, prior to thought, points to true
reality which we understand because we're it, but can't explain because to
explain requires not only that we divide it, but that we get "outside" it
to examine it which, of course, we can't do.
Once we divide the purity of reality with thought, we forget we've divided
it, then forget we've forgotten. So the S/O division becomes what we take
to be true reality when actually it is the static intellectual level of
the MOQ (thanks Bo). The S/O division creates a pseudo or virtual reality
that works for practical purposes -- except it has a black hole when it
comes to morals, which is Pirsig's whole shtick.
A newborn baby is a repository of pure experience, pure Quality. It can do
no wrong. :-)
Best,
Platt
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