[MD] A formalised Code of Art

[MarshaV]

At 03:54 PM 10/12/2006, you wrote:
>Mark 12-10-06: Hello Dan.
>"When early Western investigators first read the Buddhist texts they  too
>interpreted nirvana as some kind of suicide.  There's a famous poem  that
>goes:
>While living,
>Be a dead man.
>Be completely dead,
>And  then do as you please.
>And all will be well.
>It sounds like something from  a Hollywood horror-film but it's about
>nirvana.  The Metaphysics of  Quality translates it:
>While sustaining biological and social  patterns
>Kill all intellectual patterns.
>Kill them completely
>And then  follow Dynamic Quality
>And morality will be served." (Lila. ch. 
>32) 
>I think Pirsig may have got this wrong.


Hello Mark,

You stated "I think Pirsig may have got this wrong."   How are you 
going to test your theory?

Marsha