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

[khaled Alkotob]

[SA]
>      Contemplated your last posting yesterday, today,
> and just got done rereading it.  Contemplating, that's
> what I experienced.  How to explain the natural stare?
>  Well, you know it, do it and in the doing wisdom.  In
> knowing, well, that is not the full grasp of the idea.
>  In knowing what one is doing, now that's wisdom.  To
> stare, and thus, contemplate at the coconut around the
> hand.  To want the rice, but live too, or to want to
> stay calm, contemplate the situation, and understand
> what you are doing.  To live on is to stay focused on
> what your doing when it is the desire to get the rice,
> short-sightedness, instead of knowing oneself, the
> whole self in the situation and having the
> long-sightedness that comes with true focus on what is
> happening in this vast world.  Contemplate... and much
> more could come from it.  That's what I thought Pirsig
> was saying in your last post.  What do you think?
> 
What is more important is when he said what GENERAL advice would you give
the monkey. That to me is key.

A quantum leap in thinking. Wanting food is a necessity. Getting food was
never life threatening before. Now forsaking food is what will keep you
alive. In a way getting food now becomes "bad quality".

Khaled