From: -Peter (pcorteen@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 09 2005 - 08:45:32 GMT
Hi David,
hate to disturb your serenity mate but do you practice the art of fucking
to?
-Pete
On 08/11/05, David Harding < > wrote:
>
> Platt Holden wrote:
> > David H. asked:
> >
> >
> >>Platt,
> >>
> >>How do you persue beauty through art?
> >
> >
> > I attempt to engage in the human purpose described by Pirsig in his SODV
> > paper, although without pretense of being on the same artistic or
> > intellectual level as the individuals he talks about. One just does his
> > best. If you have ever painted, you are familiar with the experience in
> > the beginning of "plunging into the unknown" and of "trying to bring
> > something out of that unknown into a static form that would be of value
> to
> > everyone." In so doing, one strives to connect with beauty, the center
> of
> > existence. Of course, art is not restricted to painting. As Pirsig
> points
> > out, it's any "high quality endeavor."
> >
> > Here is the significant excerpt:
> >
> > "In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance art was defined as high
> > quality endeavor. I have never found a need to add anything to that
> > definition. But one of the reasons I have spent so much time in this
> paper
> > describing the personal relationship of Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr
> > in the development of quantum theory is that although the world views
> > science as a sort of plodding, logical methodical advancement of
> > knowledge, what I saw here were two artists in the throes of creative
> > discovery. They were at the cutting edge of knowledge plunging into the
> > unknown trying to bring something out of that unknown into a static form
> > that would be of value to everyone. As Bohr might have loved to observe,
> > science and art are just two different complementary ways of looking at
> > the same thing. In the largest sense it is really unnecessary to create
> a
> > meeting of the arts and sciences because in actual practice, at the most
> > immediate level they have never really been separated. They have always
> > been different aspects of the same human purpose."
> >
> > Best,
> > Platt
> >
>
> Hi Platt,
>
> Thanks for these words. I follow a similar approach, yet with a slight
> difference. The MOQ says that if one wants to create high quality art, the
> best(only) way is through perfection and killing of
> all static patterns so all that is left is but a pure expression of
> Dynamic Quality. As you know, Zen masters achieve this perfection through
> various arts such as archery or even flower arrangement.
> They perfect their work to such a degree that their art becomes a way of
> life and anything they do, whether it be archery, flower arrangement,
> brushing their teeth in the morning or even eating an
> icecream it comes as a natural flow from their affinity with Dynamic
> Quality. That's why I do sitting meditation - the simplest, easiest art of
> them all. Just my thoughts.
>
> -David.
>
>
>
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