[MD] Quality, Beauty, Truth or truth

[David Harding]

Heather Perella wrote:
> Can it be defined or not?  Does that make it any more
> true or not than something else?  Or any more ultimate
> or not?
>      Quality,  is it really the Truth or a truth?  I
> know Pirsig put quality or quality put Pirsig into a
> way of thinking in which because Pirsig could not
> define quality, then quality became this awesome
> "thing".  Yet, can God really be define?  What about
> Zen?  Zen cannot be defined according to Shunryu
> Suzuki a spiritual descendant of Dogen, it can only
> truly be practiced.  Who is Shunryu Suzuki?  He
> established the Zen Center in San Francisco, and Zen
> Mountain Center "...the first Zen training monastery
> outside Asia."  Doesn't the Zen Center sound familiar?
>  This is where Pirsig's son attended until he left one
> day, evening, or night and was killed.  Why bring this
> up?  Well, I am looking into how many "things" cannot
> be defined.  What type of attention should we give to
> anything that cannot be defined?  Such as I am
> thinking about an animal with two legs trying to grab
> something out of a tree.  Do you know it?  Well, of
> course its' a cougar trying to reach for a higher mark
> on the tree to scratch.
> 
> SA
> 

Hi SA,

If you'd like to look more into what can and cannot be defined might I point you in the direction of Lila?  In it Pirsig goes into great detail about the two giving them the conceptual names of static 
quality and Dynamic Quality.

That said, having not read Lila your writing is a pleasure to read.

Hope my encouragement helps!

- David