Re: MD the metaphysics of the individual

From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 18:22:29 BST

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    From Platt:

    > "It's important to remember that both science and Eastern religions
    > regard "the individual" as an empty concept. It is literally a figure of
    > speech. If you start assigning a concrete reality to it, you will find
    > yourself in a philosophic quandary." [LILA'S CHILD Note 77]

    DM: This is interesting. Clearly all SQ patterns have their own
    independence up to a point. This independence is controlled by
    higher and more evolved patterns. Therefore could we say that there
    is an overall pattern that makes a collection of inorganic, organic,
    biological and social patterns into the organised event of an individual
    life?
    I'd say up to a point. An individual is not just a set of patterns organised
    into the collectivity of the so-called individual. The collection of
    patterns
    go on doing what they do in predictable ways, but an individual is open
    to its environment that is not predictable. The patterns are going to be
    effected in all kinds of dynamic ways and the individual is also able to
    respond and act dynamicallly and even bring completely new dynamic
    possibilities of action/creation into the situation. The amazing thing is
    you can meditate away most of your patterns above the organic level.
    The individual is therefore something open, that can melt away,
    into nothing, but that's the secret of human being is this strong contact
    with the
    nothing, and the power to draw upon its creative power.

    "Lila individually, herself, is in an evolutionary battle against the
    static patterns of her own life." (Lila, 29)

    DM: Yes, against the static patterns that she possess in the here
    and now there is the evolutionary potential to become what she
    essentially is: nothing or freedom itself. Freedom -the least essential
    concept of them all.

    This also says something about immortality, because SQ patterns
    appear to possess immortality, whereas the individual is touched
    by freedom and therefore with nothing. Our highest value (freedom) calls us
    to
    overcome our own inherited static patterns. The love and joy of freedom
    is a fiery love.

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