From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 22:07:03 BST
Interesting, I was corresponding with others in my weblog about "Zen
driving" during the last month, and concluded that ...
My long-standing preference for a manual gear-shift transmission, and the
fact that my current wheels are an open top sports car, were both aspects of
being closer to the machine and to the world, in much the way that Pirsig
describes the significance of travelling by cycle. It's more dynamic I
guess.
[Quote]
'Unless you are fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a
running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and
meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and
things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking
about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without
feeling that you are losing time.' (p 17, or P15 of my ZAMM25th Ed.)
[Unquote]
Also another aspect someone mentioned earlier - "driving in a Zen-like
state" - also came up. Driving "on autopilot" - statically latched to the
current state of the machine and journey, that one is not consciously aware
of doing it, and quite able to apply the brain to more dynamic pursuits at
the same time. You only become aware of having been in the state and
conscious again when something unusual attracts your attention.
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
[mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com
Sent: 20 June 2003 12:34
To: moq_discuss@moq.org
Subject: Re: MD Automatic or standard transmission?
Hi squonk (and all),
Thanks for the very valuable driver's point of view, but I was hoping for
a more MoQ related response.
sq: That is an MoQ related response. The relationship between driver and
car is a relationship between all pattern levels of the car, driver, social
convention and intellectual in a relationship with Dynamic Quality. The MoQ
has mundane day to day applications and that is perhaps the most valuable
aspect of the MoQ itself.
Maybe I should have stressed on the idea of automatically of patterns more
than the application of that idea. My driving dilemma is nothing but an
excuse to dig deeper into the idea of static intellectual patterns
becoming automatic as we become proficiant in them. We all have probably
heard the statement:
"It's like riding a bike. Once you learn it, you never forget."
To me that says "Once a static intellectual pattern becomes too static (if
there is such a thing), it is not an intellectual pattern anymore".
Psychologists would probably say that the "sub-conscious" is responsible
for this, but I don't value that term.
sq: A mundane and useful application of MoQ thought would be: 'stay alert
and be open for new experience' because if you slip into automatic pilot
then you may not notice the weather is bad, the road is wet, the light is
not on green as it has been 90% of the time, oh shit i'm in hospital with
whiplash.
Its called a value trap - forgetting the expected. Language is a good
example of filtering out what is not worth noticing and what is to be
noticed.
I would be interested to know the forums' thoughts on this phenomenon.
Cheers,
- Pi
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