From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 00:00:09 BST
>I have been thinking of dynamic morality in the sense of the usual usage of
>the word "morality"--not as types of patterns but as a code of conduct.
The MoQ shows us that everything is a code of conduct. Planets orbiting the
Sun do it because it is moral, birds fly south because it is moral, etc.
>The MOQ distinguishes two categories of morals to help us understand their
>purpose.
And in so doing obscures the whole of morality in general.
>AsI understand what Pirsig is saying, some of our morality exists
>to control biological patterns, which is the social-biological moral code.
>Some morals exist to free the intellect from society which make up the
>social-intellectual code.
These seem like one in the same to me. Any moral that controls biology
helps seure social level patterns and at the same time frees the intellect.
>Dynamic morality is a moral code like these (not a static level), but it is
>the code that can't be codified.
It is not a code, all codes are in Static Quality. It is the interplay of
too many Static patterns to predict or understand, therefore it can't be
codified.
>I see Dynamic morality as what the MOQ
>offers us in place of the static absolute right and wrong that people have
>unsuccessfully tried to uncover for so long.
And you will no doubt offer your services at interpreting DQ for us?
>Since static patterns change
>over time, there are no moral absolutes or fixed standards for behavior
>that
>are universally best for all time. "Best" is a moving target and so the
>morality that we must follow if we hope to achieve it is dynamic.
"Best" is what our static patterns suggest is best. Morality is based on
the idea that we elevate whatever our current expectation is to the status
of a moral absolute.
>To live according to dynamic morality is to follow DQ or to follow the Tao.
>"The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" (says the Tao Te Ching).
>The morality that can be codified is not the eternal morality. The Tao is
>often translated as "the way." Jesus is also said to be the Way. The great
>spiritual teachers have taught let go of static patterns. Then what?
>Follow dynamic morality. Allow yourself to be lived by DQ, the Tao, God,
>etc.
The Tao that can be followed is the Tao that can be told. You can't follow
the eternal Tao for the same reason that you can't tell it. All "the
eternal Tao" means is that it changes, but is always the Tao. At any given
time, there is always a way, a Right way of Right Action and Right Thinking
and Right behavior. (oops, that's buddhism, not Lao Tzu. But it isn't "A
Tao", it is "The Tao".)
While we are on the subject of the Tao, I want to ask people to again to
read CS Lewis Aboltion of Man.
Johnny
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