From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Sun Jan 18 2004 - 14:33:41 GMT
Dear Khoo,
In your 24 Dec 2003 22:44:51 +0800 e-mail you reformulate 'killing all
intellectual patterns' in order to reach enlightenment into 'releasing' or
'detaching from' all static patterns and you equate nirvana/enlightenment
with Dynamic Quality.
I don't understand how you can call both static quality (static patterns of
value) and Dynamic Quality 'neutral' if your goal is to be released from
static patterns of value and realise Dynamic Quality.
For me both sq and DQ are aspects of 'Quality', so not 'neutral'. My goal is
not to be released from static patterns of value, but to contribute to their
migration towards DQ. I choose 'attachment' to progressively more versatile
patterns of value. There's not point in escaping the world of patterns of
value (of Quality), because there's nothing to escape to. DQ is an aspect of
Quality (and of patterns of value) and not something outside them where you
can migrate to. Only the patterns themselves can 'migrate to DQ', i.e.
change their sq/DQ balance.
You seem to disagree with the goal I described as creating 'intellectual
patterns of value that constitute a more collective "self": identification
with humanity and "creation" as a whole'. The quote from Einstein with which
you end expresses the same goal for me however:
'A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings
as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty.'
N.B. Einstein doesn't describe 'the whole' as a prison from which we should
free ourselves. It is our sense of being separate from that 'whole' that
emprisons us. Buddhism can be interpreted as propagating exactly the
opposite: detachment from that 'whole'.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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