[MD] Mind-body practice

[Dan Glover]

> From: Krimel at Krimel.com
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:29:04 -0500
> Subject: Re: [MD] Mind-body practice
>
> [Dan]
> I agree it's intellectually appealing to learn new ideas and to fill our
> days chasing empty concepts. I think the MOQ says that that takes us away
> from Dynamic Quality, however. It doesn't bring us closer. Perhaps that is
> what the literature on the Tao and Buddhism is telling you.
>
> [Krimel]
> Do tell. Where does Pirsig say that the pursuit of knowledge takes us away
> from Dynamic Quality?

"Thought is not a path to reality. It sets obstacles in that path because when you try to use thought to approach something that is prior to thought your thinking does not carry you toward that something. It carries you away from it. To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding."

"The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience but to bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing, static, intellectual attachments of the past."

"While sustaining biological and social patterns
Kill all intellectual patterns.
Kill them completely
And then follow Dynamic Quality
And morality will be served."

"Strictly speaking, the creation of any metaphysics is an immoral act since it's a lower form of evolution, intellect, trying to devour a higher mystic one."