RE: MD Lila's Child

From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 07:54:51 BST

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    Hi Platt:
    >As Pirsig put it: "In the MOQ Quality comes first which produces ideas
    >which produce what
    >we know has matter."

    So, how much time elapses between these stages? How much control do the
    ideas have over how they produce the matter, or do they channel the quality
    fully and directly into matter without having any control over it? Couldn't
    it be said that Quality produces ideas and matter simultaneously? I mean,
    the process couldn't stop at producing the idea of matter without the matter
    being produced, and the idea can't be suppressed once quality has produced
    it, right? So how could there even be any delay in the creation of the
    matter after the idea is produced? So if they are produced simultaneously,
    there can be no chain like that - from Q to Idea to Matter - it would have
    to be more like a pyramid, from Q to both ideas and matter, right?

    This isn't to say that the ideas don't produce the matter, as the matter
    could not be produced without the idea. So it is the idea, not the Quality,
    that actualizes the Quality into matter.

    Do you think getting rid of the chain concept might be useful to
    understanding? How crucial is the chain to you?

    Johnny

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