From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 18 2004 - 06:11:08 BST
Hello everyone
>From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: Re: MD the metaphysics of freedom
>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:08:10 EDT
>
>Mark 18-7-04: If you claim to recognise lack of coherence then you must
>recognise coherence Dan. What is 'the sweet spot' in MOQ terms?
Hi Mark
I would call it Quality. I think you expounded on it well in your essay in
the moq.org forum. In the beginning of the conclusion you write:
"The sweet spot is an idiom of common language. In the language of the MOQ,
a sweet spot may be described as a tension between SQ patterns that produce
DQ. The Zen Master uses archery as a means to achieve DQ. The MOQ indicates
why this would be a natural use for archery, as the archer must balance his
loosing of the shot at a very fine point."
I don't practice archery but I do practice golf. I've never actually played
golf, I just like to practice hitting balls. If my swing is good my body
feels good. Now it doesn't happen every time I practice; in fact come to
think of it, it's only happened to me once, but when it happened (and I
can't tell you what "it" is) it showed me that I don't hit the ball. The
shot happens best when I'm not involved at all.
Applying it to archery it would seem to me that the shot loosens itself at a
very fine point. The archer has become the shot. No longer is balance
needed. There is only the shot. I believe if the master can get the student
to see this just one time, then his job is complete. The master is a mirror
so to speak, and without the student there would be no reflection of Dynamic
Quality to achieve. Yet in a real sense Dynamic Quality is never achieved,
only aimed for.
I think that's what's meant when we say hitting "the sweet spot." It has
nothing to do with an actual spot in a physical sense but rather just for a
moment self has been abandoned, absorbed, and the act itself has become the
meaning. Applying that to the MOQ, one might call it harmony.
Thank you for your comments,
Dan
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