Re: MD What's the difference?

From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 15:43:36 BST

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    Hi Platt,

    : Connecting the other words isn't hard if you accept the MoQ
    : presumptions:
    :
    : Quality=Reality (Existence)
    : Quality=Experience (Now)
    : Experience=Awareness=Apprehension=Consciousnes
    : Consciousness="I" or Self ("It's Quality that has Lila." (11))
    : Quality=the Tao (as you suggest)
    :
    : It is only when intellect does its divisive thing that we get these different
    : words all pointing to the same phenomenon.
    :
    : Or so I'm beginning to conclude.

    It was having the 'self' in there that made me want to question the identity of the various words. I
    see the 'self' as a level 4 static pattern, not Quality as such, and many of the other words
    (experience, consciousness etc) as the interplay between that static pattern and Quality/the Tao
    itself. So although they are closely linked, I don't see them as equivalent. So from your original
    list, I would make the following division:

    Quality = Tao = "undifferentiated aesthetic continuum"
    "I" or Self = level 4 static pattern
    Reality, Now, Existence, Apprehension, Experience, Consciousness = interplay between the above.

    So from the point of view of the level 4 pattern, the six latter synonyms can *appear* identical
    with Quality and the Tao, but in fact they are distinct. I think they are relational terms.
    (Consciousness could be a synonym for the static pattern)

    Sam

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