[MD] A formalised Code of Art

[MarshaV]

At 01:28 PM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
>Hello everyone
>
>
>Marsha:
> >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)
> >

Dan:
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.


Dear Dan,

That is my understanding too.  I think that you've stated it beautifully.

Marsha