[MD] Quality/Tao

Krimel Krimel at Krimel.com
Fri Jun 25 09:24:45 PDT 2010


> Thirty spokes meet at a nave;
> Because of the hole we may use the wheel.
> Clay is moulded into a vessel;
> Because of the hollow we may use the cup.
> Walls are built around a hearth;
> Because of the doors we may use the house.
> Thus tools come from what exists,
> But use from what does not.
> 
> [http://www.vl-site.org/taoism/ttcmerel.html]
> 
> Krimel:
> Quality = Tao = Undefined
> DQ = Active
> SQ = Static
> 
> Dan: 
> The tao is called the way but it isn't a place or a destination. The
> tao is experience. It is constantly defined yet inexhaustible. All
> that is, was, and will be springs forth from it and trickles back to
> it. Dynamic Quality is synonymous with the tao. It is not active yet
> it never rests. It is not static yet it may be defined by that very
> nature. Dynamic Quality is not this, not that.

[Krimel]
Pirsig says Quality is synonymous with Tao. 
You are saying that a particular kind of Quality is synonymous with Tao. 
Tao has no need of adjectives or modifiers.

> [Dan]
> Dynamic Quality equals Tao equals Undefined/Infinitely Defined equals
> not this, not that.
> 
> Static quality equals reality.
> 
> We know Quality when we see it.
> 
> Thoughts?

[Krimel]
Why do you return to "Quality" in the second to the last line here, if the
term is to be replaced with Dynamic Quality? 





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