From: Barritt (mbarritt@nc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 01:30:12 BST
Johnny... it was Janis Joplin not Joni...
Free Will is when static patterns tire of being static, and do something
dynamic...
----- Original Message -----
From: "johnny moral" <johnnymoral@hotmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: MD Free Will
>
> Hi David,
>
> >DMB asked:
> >'Where and when are you most free? In what way do you actually exercise
> >freedom?'
> >
> >Wim didn't answer:
> >Seems an unanswerable question to me. 'Freedom' never comes without
further
> >qualifications. You should always first answer the question 'freedom from
> >what?'.
> >
> >dmb says:
> >Freedom from static patterns.
>
> Sounds like Joni Mitchell's "Freedom's just another word for nothing left
to
> lose."
>
> I think that our lack of freedom is felt most when dynamic forces intrude
on
> our static peace. A farmer out in the plains with no one around for miles
> and all the autonomy in the world doesn't feel their freedom threatened by
> the tree that is there everyday, or the sun coming up every morning, or
> anything static. Even if he is living as a serf under a feudal lord, I
> don't think he feels imprisoned by that, if he has always been living in
> that state. And we've been through the idea of monks achieving freedom
> through ritual. I think a person only feels his freedom threatened when
> change is thrust upon him, some new pattern (be it inorganic, biological,
> social, or intellectual) comes along and threatens his static peace. Even
> emancipation from slavery does not bring freedom, it just exposes the
former
> slave to new sets of static patterns that he must adjust to. It forces
> change on him.
>
> So, I answer precisely the opposite: Freedom is from dynamic change.
>
> As the swami told Peter Tork in "Head", "Choice is misery".
>
> Johnny
>
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