[MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

[markhsmit]

Hi Khoo,
You are right to question Bo's assertion.  Perhaps by better he meant
a faster path to the same enlightenment.  Unfortunately, as the
MoQ stands right now (in my opinion), it is not even attempting
to do that.  There is an attitude in the forum of Quality uber alis.
This is like saying one book is better than another.
MoQ is used more for entertainment than for discovery.

If MoQ does provide a path to enlightenment, rather than a
cumbersome structure full of debate, I would certainly 
welcome it.  I have traveled the Eastern philosophies which
requires rethinking a lot of things, and time.

Perhaps MoQ will be the McDonalds of Buddhism.

Of course there is always the martini which takes no time at all.

Cheers,
Mark

Hi All,


Bo concludes after commenting on the half-baked SOM of the Orient and the
woolly mess in its wake that:

The Western MOQ will be a better "Buddhism"!

Khoo:
I would certainly like to see this if it were to be so: }

What are we talking about here:
An intellectual pattern better than another intellectual pattern ?
A Dynamic aspect better than its Static aspect?
A better route than another route to Reality?

Is there a Western MOQ to begin with ?
I do not remember Pirsig saying as such
in either ZAMM or LILA ?

In what way will it be better ?
The way Muslims say Islam is better ?
The way Christians says theirs is better ?
Science says its better, because they seek the Truth,
Nothing less nothing more.

Is this what the Western MOQ is about ?
Truth Seeking, Reality Seeking, Morally Speaking ?
Evolution on to Better State,
Or an Ultimate Reality, an Ultimate Good ?
That is better than the other "Good"s?
Always better, never lesser.

I wonder.

The Buddha after all did say" What I have taught you is like the leaves in
my hand
and what I have not taught you is like the leaves in the jungle"

Perhaps Buddhism as a Metaphysics is indeed insufficient
and a Western MOQ will make up the difference.

Best Regards
Khoo Hock Aun