[MD] A formalised Code of Art

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

>From: MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: Re: [MD] A formalised Code of Art
>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:05:04 -0400
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>
>Greetings,
>
>I wonder how this quote would be explained.
>
>While sustaining biological and social patterns
>Kill all intellectual patterns.
>Kill them completely
>And then follow Dynamic Quality
>And morality will be served.
>                     (LILA, Chapter 32)
>

Hi Marsha

Buddhism suggests that we all come into the world favored with Buddha mind. 
Forgetting, we live selfish lives causing ourselves and those around us 
misery. All a person has to do to stop the suffering is to remember, but 
how? The more a person thinks about it, the farther away Buddha mind 
recedes. Intellectual patterns of value obscure Dynamic Quality. The patient 
says: Doctor, it hurts when I laugh. The Doctor says: So stop laughing!

Translating this into Quality terms, I think the above quote has to do with 
the practice of stilling the internal dialogue we all have going on inside 
our heads. When the dialogue becomes quiet, the thinking that normally 
obscures Dynamic Quality also ceases and "it" shines through. We remember. 
Meditation is one method of practice, becoming absorbed in one's art 
another. There are many ways to still the internal dialogue yet it is also 
important to sustain biological and social functionings at the same time... 
otherwise degeneracy occurs and morality is not served by degeneracy.

Thank you for your comments,

Dan



A monk asked Ummon, What is Buddha mind?
Ummon said, Kanshiketsu! (A dry shit-stick!)