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

[Heather Perella]

Khaled,

     Gettin food is bad quality?  Is this to grab our
attention by Pirsig, in order, to get us thinking. 
Because as I see it the monkey is dead with getting
the food, and the monkey is dead staying with the food
- the hunters are coming.  The monkey cannot defend
him/herself against these hunters, yet, the desires of
the biological, appetiate, are pulling the attention
of the monkey another way as well.  So where is the
attention of the monkey to be?  What general advice
would we give the monkey?  Enjoy what you are
experiencing now, because there is no later.  Enjoy it
without the food, enjoy it with the sounds of hunters
coming.  Enjoy that moment that is now with so much
crashing in on us, and tearing us apart.  If the
quality is not seen in that moment, will the quality
ever be seen again?

SA  

--- khaled Alkotob <khaledsa at juno.com> wrote:

> [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
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