From: MarshaV (marshalz@i-2000.com)
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 23:50:53 BST
I guess no one is interested in actually experiencing dynamic quality
through art. Or is it such a common experience that it's just ho-hum? I
spent a summer parachuting (eight jumps, one 10 second freefall). That was
very dynamic. But it doesn't even come close to the excitement and
immediacy of painting.
Is it that art is not in that top intellectual level?
On what level does art reside?
MarshaV
At 03:22 PM 6/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Some of my notes on Beauty, Art and Dynamic Quality:
>
>--For me, beauty makes a direct connection to Dynamic Quality.
>
>--How does art fit into MOQ? Well, for me the whole thing is about art.
>Indeed, I think it's art itself since Pirsig uses the art forms of the
>novel and the symbol of Lila to express his beliefs. No eye-glazing
>academically-sanctioned philosophical paper for him. He needs art to
>communicate the meaning of his metaphysics Like love and beauty, it's
>power is best depicted in music, poetry and visual expressions. In fact,
>for me the whole purpose of art is to create the feeling of Dynamic
>Quality, a "Wow," "Awesome, "Aha," "Oh my God" feeling of sheer wonder and
>joy in realizing all of a sudden that you are one with the entire universe
>because all patterns for that moment have disappeared and you experience
>the Dynamic Quality center of life. Art is truly at the heart of MOQ.
>
>--What the world will eventually come to understand is the Metaphysics of
>Quality, which asserts the world came into being because it was right that
>it do so, the result of the Principle of Goodness. It is known in everyday
>life simply as "Beautiful."
>
>--What words do we see Pirsig using to describe DQ? Elegant, brilliant,
>first good, shone through, wonder, mystery, excitement, pure fun, skill,
>fortune, blessing, luck, wondrous, transcended. Throughout Lila, Pirsig
>emphasizes the poetic, esthetic aspect of DQ.
>
>--Music and other forms of art are universal responses to DQ. The
>particular form of expression or cultural style is irrelevant to the
>universality of Quality in art to which man has responded since his cave
>days, long before he could read or write.
>
>--Now, the present moment of pure awareness, isn't an object. It's an
>intuitive feeling, like beauty. You can't define it, you feel it. Dynamic
>Quality, Beauty, the big NOW--all words for the same thing.
>
>--From my point of view ultimate reality is pure DQ which I believe is
>synonymous with pure beauty. If we could arrive at total awareness, become
>God so to speak, I believe we would experience the harmony of existence as
>having such blinding splendor that we would faint dead away from the sheer
>impact of its unbearable beauty
>
>--It's my contention that to enter the "transpersonal domain," become
>spiritually awakened or experience "oneness" you don't have read books by
>Ken Wilber, attend lectures by Deepak Chopra or spend several months at a
>monastery in Tibet, but simply go to your local museum, symphony hall or
>trout stream where Beauty is likely to be found if you can't discover it
>in your own back yard. I also believe there is no greater calling in life
>than to create beautiful things. Which is why, long after the politicians
>are gone and forgotten, the artists and their works will be preserved and
>revered. I consider Pirsig to be a first rate artist. I'm drawn to the MOQ
>again and again because of its wonderfully lucid, harmonious and elegant
>intellectual pattern, especially compared to the degenerate, postmodern,
>anti- rational rubbish being propagated by humanities professors at
>today's universities.
>
>--Here is a wonderful description of the aesthetic experience by Clement
>Greenberg, an art critic: "Esthetic enjoyments are immediate, intuitive,
>undeliberate and involuntary and leave no room for conscious application
>of standards, criteria, rules or precepts." No intellect there. Just an
>instantaneous "value reaction"--a response of a living being to DQ.
>
>Best,
>Platt
>
>
>
>
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