From: SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 03:12:25 BST
Hi Squonk,
> On a personal note, which i always feel is a valuable way of
> discussing these things, i find it exceptionally helpful to examine
> experience in terms of DQ-SQ.
Would you care to share how you have examined a few of your personal
experiences in terms of DQ-SQ? In other words, can you give us some
specific examples of how you apply the MOQ perspective in your everyday
life? And perhaps how the MOQ has changed your life?
Thanks.
Platt
Dear Platt,
I would be very happy to share my experiences.
In my late 20's i was given a first edition copy of 'Lila' by my uncle Tom -
brother of my father. Tom, at this time, worked in the highest criminal mental
health security facility in the UK. It was his job to oversee the medication
supply to some of the most dangerous and psychotic patients in legal UK
security.
Tom informed me that some of these psychotics were also some of the most
intelligent individuals in the country, with IQ's almost off the scale - that is
to say, some of these killers were also among the most rational and intelligent
people in the UK.
Some of the psychotic individuals in question read ZMM. Exactly what they saw
in it is not a question i can answer, but Tom, as a Buddhist, also read ZMM,
and he recognised that i was of a disposition to appreciate ZMM also, for my
temperament appears to be that of a creative.
When Lila was published, Tom gave me his copy as a present, and thus
continued my journey away from structured work routine into mature education -
studying music and philosophy.
Right from the start, i read Lila and abandoned subjects and objects as
primary reality. It made enormous sense to me to view experience as a tension
between DQ and SQ. This was not at all without its pains and agonies.
From my current vantage point, i see that my life was at moments a dreadful
hell under the transition from old cultural subject/object discrimination to
DQ-SQ tension. The main problem was learning to deal with the intense beauty of
coherence with which i was introduced, while at the same time having to
accommodate a more delineated view of low Quality. People around me in the work
place and at home still had the old cultural perspective, while i was seeing
things rather differently. Now and then, i met an individual with more than a
sympathetic feeling: An engineer i worked with was into Indian thought, and found
it very easy to harmonise with my world view. These moments reassured me i was
sane!
At other times the social pretence of value appeared dreadful; this is, in my
personal experience, the low Quality that Phaedrus encountered when he began
to see things in the light of value.
Was it worth it?
No question. My vision is clear. Reality seen as DQ-SQ tension is pure
aesthetic, and staggeringly beautiful.
The only sadness is that more are not encouraged to see the blissful
potential of our being.
Never doubt that i should be more than happy to discuss personal experiences
regarding the MoQ Platt.
Having said this, my life is not without its problems, but these are perhaps
for close friends to hear? The MoQ cannot deliver happiness! And it's
revealing nature may provide true and dreadful insight. But there is also the beauty
of everyday experience, and this is what makes it worth while for me.
All the best,
squonk.
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