[MD] Where do we all stand in relation to Pirsig's Quality?

[Heather Perella]

Khaled and Marsha,

     Khaled, so if we shift this understanding, let's
say about rabbits, then since we think differently
about rabbits some other perceptions we have will
change as well.  What we thought of as trees, will no
longer be trees.  What we thought of as a river, is
not the same thought.  All because we view rabbits so
differently now.  Isn't that what your saying with
this spherical thinking?

     Marsha said:  "Maybe I'm just less confused by
the outside static.  I've left the nest of family
values, community values, religious values, cultural
values.  I home alone and with the whole world."

     Marsha when I think about this... at first I
didn't know what you were talking about.  Maybe I
still don't, but I have this thought or might I say, I
saw something.
     Being in the woods or meditating for me, strips
values that I might have had.  I confronted values,
these ideas I thought I needed about the world.  Yet,
in the face of quiet sitting or sitting by the fire,
the activity of relaxing brought me to a pivotal
point.  I either sit here and relax or try to hold
onto something I think is necessary or hold onto a
view of the world that to me at the time, seemed to be
the most awesome thought about what the world is.  It
was as if the treasure of life was found and I needed
to share it with everybody to solve all the problems. 
Then the wind blows.  The leaves in the trees stir and
clouds move by.  I try to get back to what I was
thinking about.  Yeah, wasn't it about rabbits.  So
anyways these rabbits are interesting creatures.  They
jump around... I hear the water in the creek nearby. 
It catches my attention.  I listen for a moment.  My
mind is clear... clear water.  That's it.  The house
of the top of the hill is where the guy ran his truck
into after he was with all of those people.  That's
what I remember now.  If those kids would have just
listened.  Then if they went with us to go driving
around then that guy...  Wait, what was I thinking. 
The water in the creek.  The wind blew.  Rabbits, or
was it crayfish, yeah, it was trout.  That's right.  I
was thinking about the trout I caught.  That's what I
was thinking all along.  I'm hungry.  The wind blows,
again.  Ah, that clarity, the quality in that clarity.
 Smell that cold air that is blowing in.  The
thunderstorms left last night and now, snow!  
     Something in you kept you understanding
something, that even I don't really get, yet, I
understood something just enough to keep on typing
what I saw when that sun was still in view today.  For
it's not night yet.  Something that the coyote left
behind after being all snug in that snowstorm. 
Something... it was something out there in the dark
when that sun did finally disappear, yet, when I close
my eyes it is dark in me, too.  Dark everywhere...
can't see a thing... 

SA

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