From: Richard Loggins (brloggins@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 05:26:46 BST
Hi Sam,
The common sense answer is that an intellectual person does the skillful manipulation, and the MOQ goes along with that. But the MOQ goes further and recognizes it is from Quality that we get our skill and our humanness, and that what the MOQ stresses above all is that the skillful manipulation of abstract symbols - the satisfaction if brings - is the pure experience and Quality which comes before the symbols, before ourselves, and before anything else we can name.
Rich.
Sam Norton <elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Paul, anyone,
Just while I'm working on a few things relating to this.... ;-)
In his letter to you, Pirsig writes:
> You have to cut it off somewhere, and it seems to me the
> greatest meaning can be given to the intellectual level if it is
> confined to the skilled manipulation of abstract symbols that have no
> corresponding particular experience and which behave according to rules
> of their own.
Do you have any idea about who or what might be *doing* the manipulation (ie, who or what has the
'skill')? Or is it that the symbols react to Quality on their own, without an intermediary? Or
something else?
Sam
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