From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Tue Aug 30 2005 - 07:04:49 BST
[Platt wrote]
Language is woefully inadequate to express what happens when I experience
DQ. It's as verbally inexpressible as the feeling aroused in me when I
first heard Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto, yet it is real --
seemingly more real than ordinary experience. "The Tao that can be expressed
is not the real Tao" said Lao Tzu, and Wittgenstein concluded his
"Tractatus" with "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
What I point my finger to with totally inadequate words you will understand
when you experience it. Other than that, I cannot say.
[Case Queries]
So you are saying that all DQ gives you the warm fuzzies?
The mumps threw my system into a very dynamic state when I was a kid. I felt
really cruddy. I had another particularly DQ moment as a kid when my uncle
ran a Fairlane off the blacktop.
The Tao would be equal to Pirsig's Quality. DQ=Yang. I can see where an
"Aha" moment of contact with the Way, The Path of Harmony might produce
bliss but I have had way too many unpleasant Yang experiences to get all
misty eyed about repeating them.
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