[MD] A formalised Code of Art

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Dan:
The more a person thinks about it, the farther away Buddha mind  recedes.
 
Mark 11-10-06: Hello Dan.
This may be so, but you may have missed something of importance to the  MoQ 
in your later explanation.
The term, 'Thinking' may be social thinking in imitated ritual  language or 
abstract symbolic manipulation.
Abstract Symbolic Manipulation (ASM) is a far more Dynamic level of  
evolution than the level of Imitated Ritual Language (IRL) and it is my belief  that 
the translated quote regarding killing intellectual patterns is mainly  
concerned with IRL. Lila has no intellectual patterns to speak of.
The Buddha never knew of Calculus - ASM.
The People the Buddha attacked with his arguments were those so stuck in  IRL 
- thinking of this description - that the sq patterns of IRL were the source  
of much pain and suffering. So to dissipate them is a release, a dying, a  
killing of the source of pain.
As such, it is also a leap in Dynamic growth toward freedom.
The point is not to sustain a Dynamic point of view, but to use a Dynamic  
point of view to initiate change.
 
Dan:
Intellectual patterns of value obscure Dynamic Quality.
 
Mark 11-10-06:
Do they?
But do they though?
Now we are in the realm of ASM and NOT IRL.
Killing ASM patterns is a source of intuitive freedom to advance the  quality 
of the ASM repertoire itself - creativity, which is moral.
 
Dan:
Translating this into Quality terms,
 
Mark 11-10-06: What do you mean, 'Translating this into Quality  terms?'
This quote has ALREADY been translated into Quality terms from the Buddhist  
poem.
 
Dan:
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.
 
Mark 11-10-06: Exactly, but our, 'Internal dialogue' has two components,  IRL 
and ASM.
The Buddha wishes to kill IRL big time to block religious patterns.
Once religious patterns are blocked, the way toward ASM opens up, and/or  
total Dynamic Quality. Is it really possible to live in a state of pure DQ in an  
evolving world?
Back here in 2006 CE, not -2006CE of the Buddha, ASM patterns are killed  for 
creativity - evolution - and/or pure DQ. Is it really possible to live in a  
state of pure DQ in an evolving world?
 
Dan:
We remember.

Mark 11-10-06: A cuddly way of putting it, but we can't remember nothing.  DQ 
is death - nothing - no patterns.
 
Dan:
Meditation is one method of practice, becoming absorbed in one's art  another.
 
Mark 11-10-06: Just sitting over a maths problem is a form of meditation.  
So, becoming absorbed in ones art is a form of meditation (e.g. motorcycle  
maintenance).
 
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.
 
Mark 11-10-06: This is a fancy way of saying suicide is immoral, which is  
irrelevant as suicide isn't what the quote is saying.
Love,
Mark