From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 21:38:13 BST
Hey Rick:
> Technically
> speaking, the first MoQ premise (ie. the first moral code) is 'the law
> of nature' by which inorganic patterns triumph over chaos (LILA ch13
> p183), which means that the starting point of the MoQ is not the
> 'inorganic universe', or even the STATIC sequence at all, but is rather
> 'chaos'. "Chaos" (I suspect) is just more of Pirsig's jargon for pure,
> untamed, undivided, unpatterned Quality.
From Lila's Child, Note 99:
"Dynamic Quality and chaos are both patternless, and so it would seem
they have a lot in common, particularly the fact that you can't say
anything about them without getting into static patterns. But if you
do, you can say that Dynamic Quality is good and precedes static
improvement. It is the source of experience. Chaos, by contrast is the
condition of total destruction. You can't call it either good or bad.
It is not the source of anything."
take care,
Platt
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