Doug Renselle (renselle@on-net.net)
Mon, 27 Oct 1997 04:37:48 +0100
Hi Platt and TLS,
Platt Holden wrote:
> ...
> But permit me
> to
> add some thoughts to your statement, "I see QEs as 'decisions'".
>
> "Decisions" implies some sort of deliberation, a pause for reflection,
> a
> considered opinion, a mulling over of options. Better I think to see
> QEs as
> esthetic judgments--immediate, intuitive, undeliberate and
> involuntary,
> leaving no room for conscious application of standards, criteria,
> rules or
> precepts.
>
> In other words, I see QEs as instantaneous whole judgments totally
> free of
> static patterns whereas "decisions" suggest to me a secondary step, a
> derivative of a QE.
>
> I'd welcome your thoughts. And thanks for your many wonderful
> contributions
> to the LS.
>
> Platt
Platt,
Yes, you are right. I have no disagreement with your view. I include
your view in my broader definition of 'decision.'
It is much like the Master's words in Herrigel's "Zen and the Art of
Archery." The student (Herrigel) tries diligently and SOM-dumbly to
intellectualize the bow, arrow, his body, and the target. Where the
Master unifies all in a Zen framework, the student analyzes. The Master
makes it easy. The student makes it hard.
I understand this. But I do not yet know how to do it. I am, as yet,
unenlightened. I sense 'ITs' imminence, but I am not there yet in spite
of great progress.
This quote from Herrigel seems apropos: (p. 38)
"...Out of the fullness of this presence of mind, disturbed by no
ulterior motive, the artist who is released from all attachment must
practice his art. But if he is to fit himself self-effacingly into the
creative process, the practice of the art must have the way smoothed for
it. For if, in his self-immersion, he saw himself faced with a
situation into which he could not leap instinctively, he would first
have to bring it to consciousness. He would then enter again into all
the relationships from which he had detached himself, he would be like
one wakened, who considers his program for the day, but not like an
Awakened One who lives and works in the primordial state. It would
never appear to him as if the individual parts of the creative process
were being played into his hands by a higher power; he would never
experience how intoxicatingly the vibrancy of an event is communicated
to him who is himself only a vibration, and how everything that he does
is done before he knows it..."
...to play and to be played...that is the decision...to awaken and to be
Awakened...that is the decision...to latch and to be Dynamic...that is
the decision...to value and to be Value...
Many truths to you, Platt,
Doug Renselle.
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