[MD] MOQ and Art

[Heather Perella]

Hello Mike, Peter, and all

    [Mike] 
> I do think that since DQ experience is really
> pre-intellectual, it's 
> more "felt" than understood. That's what I was
> driving at with the 
> "heart" (er, spleen) is more open to DQ experience;
> the intellect misses 
> DQ when it's too busy.


     Intellect would miss DQ when it's too busy, which
I would understand as also meaning that our experience
is latching onto static occurrences.  The intellect is
getting caught-up in a cycle of over and over again,
it's use, or in other words, our attention is over and
over again placed upon, latched upon the intellect. 
Attention?  Well, if we are noticing intellect too
much, depending on our individual 'mood' to what we
seek at any moment, whether it be more definition to
our lives or less definition to our lives.  Too much
definition, by this I'm asserting when our lives are
too static.  Too much intellect, or intellect being
busy, is an assertion by somebody who has too much
definition happening intellectually.  As for me, when
I have too much intellectual definition, by stating
this what I'm also saying is:  'I know life is more
than what I'm defining intellectually at this time,
so, I'm trying to relax and let my worldview open-up
to what I believe by experience is a much larger world
than what my intellect is currently thinking or
defining as the world'.
     This assertion and attempt when I come to the
point in my life that my intellect is being so busy as
to attract so much attention, thus, distract me from
other 'thing' happening in my life, is an intellect
that is busy, or distracting too much.  Ultimately,
what might my attention be that is finding the
intellect busy?  Something is suggesting to me that
I'm too caught up in the intellectual side to this
experience called life.  This attention or this
suggestion is probably coming from my experience,
thus, might just be a memory of a past experience of
mine that notices that when my intellect becomes too
busy I loss focus upon other valuable 'things' in
life.  Yet, even that first event that suggested this
to me and made this a memory in my life, where might
that being coming from?  For me, relaxation and
comfort have a huge influence in my life, yet, working
hard delivers comforts so let not one think I'm
talking about laziness.  
     Born into our minds, from some pre-intellect,
thus, unmanifested intellect that will gather into an
intellectual form someday could also be translated as
a dynamic experience shedding some light, dharmakaya
light, upon my life and when the intellect is not so
busy with itself, this dharmakaya light will have an
opening and from the pre-intellectual into the
intellectual from the formless into the form taking
place on the intellectual level we can notice a
pattern that occurs over and over again put into
Pirsigian terms it is DQ interacting with SQ and a
creative process occurs as the dharmakaya light
penetrates from this asking of: What is Quality?.
     In other places around the world this question
can be said using other words.  Some may say What is
Christ?  What is Buddha?  What is the Great Mystery?

     In other words, all of this above would have been
more simply enacted as 'I don't know'.

SA

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