[MD] New Age++

[MarshaV]

May I quote:

	"From the static point of view the whole escape into Dynamic Quality 
seems like a death experience.  It's a movement from something to 
nothing.  How can "nothing" be any different from death?  Since 
Dynamic understanding doesn't make the static distinctions necessary 
to answer that question, the question goes unanswered.  All the 
Buddha could say was, "See for yourself."

	When early Western investigators first read the Buddhist texts they 
too interpreted nirvana as some kind of suicide.  There's a famous 
poem that goes:

	  While living,
	  Be a dead man.
	  Be completely dead,
	  And then do as you please
	  And all will be well.

	It sounds like something from a Hollywood horror-film but it's about 
nirvana.  The Metaphysics of Quality translates it:

	  While sustaining biological and social patterns
	  Kill all intellectual patterns.
	  Kill them completely
	  And then follow Dynamic Quality
	  And morality will be served.

	Lila was still moving toward Dynamic Quality.  All life does.  This 
breaking up of her life's patterns looked like it was part of the movement.

	When Phaedrus first went to India he'd wondered why, if this passage 
of enlightenment into pure Dynamic Quality was such a universal 
reality, did it only occur in certain parts of the world and not 
others?  At the time he'd thought this was proof that the whole thing 
was just Oriental religious baloney, the equivalent of a magic land 
called "heaven" that Westerners go to if they are good and get a 
ticket from the priests.  Now he saw that enlightenment is 
distributed in all parts of the world just as the color yellow is 
distributed in all parts of the world, but some cultures accept it 
and others screen out recognition of it."  (Lila, Chapter 32)