[MD] the prime directive of the MOQ

[gav]

hey scott, ian,
scott the point i was making was not about how you
awaken but what being awake entails. pirsig's work,
and many other fine intellectual/artistic works can
provoke thinking that leads to a zen awakening and
subsequent clarity of self. and of course being a zen
monk doesn't mean you don't think; it means you don't
*identify* with your thoughts. okay i think that's as
clear as it will get.

now: consciousness.
paul's treatise on the two theses helps here because
consciousness is a vaguely and multi-defined term.

from the dynamic, ZMM, big and PRIMARY perspective,
consciousness or awareness is the ground of the self.
we are all ultimately one consciousness experiencing
itself in many guises. in this sense consciousness
unites the universe(s); the very isness of things; the
phenomenal fact of being requires
consciousness/awareness. the west looks for the
ultimate in matter or the external. it forgets that
matter and all phenomena cannot exist without the
ability to perceive them. the west is still stuck in a
mechanical notion of reality.

from the static viewpoint consciousness is most oft
used in reference to intellectual consciousness. this
is self-consciousness which is simply consciousness of
cosnciousness, as the self is ultimately consciousness
itself. meta-consciousness if you like.

this second order consciousness can forget that what
it is experiencing is consciousness itself. it gives
an external or otherwise independent existence to
phenomena/concepts. this is probably why pirsig wrote
lila. he recognised an intellectual framework
(viewpoint 2) was required that retained the primacy
and ubiquity of consciousness (undefined quality)
itself. 

hope this helps







		
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