Re: MD Intellectual level - New letter from Pirsig

From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 04 2003 - 00:12:23 BST

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    Hello everyone

    >From: "Scott R" <jse885@spinn.net>
    >Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
    >To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    >Subject: Re: MD Intellectual level - New letter from Pirsig
    >Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:11:52 -0600
    >
    >Sean,
    >
    > > Leave us not forget that thinking is a voluntary action whereas
    >digestion
    >is
    > > an automatic response. Thinking is not automatic, it is an act of
    >volition.
    >
    >Well, yes and no. Try to not think for a half hour and you may wonder how
    >voluntary it is. One the other hand, it is far from completely involuntary,
    >and for that reason I consider it a locus of the Dynamic. Indeed, I see the
    >goal of Zen training to make it as voluntary as possible.

    Hi Scott

    Just one point...from my understanding of it, there is no goal to Zen
    training. Making thinking as voluntary as possible is best seen as a
    by-product of the mindfulness Zen training points to, just as stress-relief
    is a by-product.

    Dan

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