[MD] The SOL-ution

[Heather Perella]

     [SA previously]
> > I thought the MoQ, the Q is Quality,
> > thus, Quality=Reality.

     [Bo]
> Yes that's the basic postulate, but if I may talk
> some more? I do not object to the Quality=Reality
postulate (even if
> I claim that the DQ/SQ divide is built into it)
Quality indicates an
> existence which is basically GOOD, while the the
metaphysical
> reality that preceded it - the SOM - indicated an
existence which
> is basically indifferent, quality a mere subjective
phenomenon.
> However, if/when SOM is stripped of its metaphysical
"M" and
> the remaining S/O split is kept as the 4th. static
level
> ... then the cake is eaten and kept.

     I agree with what you've been saying.  I remember
you mentioned how dq/sq is a meta-level on par with
meditation and Zen experience.  Is this correct?  For
the best way I've been able to explain my meditations
and Zen understandings is to just stick with dq/sq
language.  Once I get further into sq, then this is
where I believe Pirsig strengthens thought and static
patterns, where historically Zen, which does not
reject thought, has fallen into moments where
interpretation even by Eastern Asian Zen practitioners
has become a rejection of thought [from what I've read
from scholars from Eastern Asia (ex. Masao Abe) and
Zen masters (ex. Hui Neng the 6th Patriarch who
advocated against those that he knew practiced Zen as
being a blank mind and suppressed thought, which this
advocation is found in the Platform Sutra)].  Thus,
the MoQ has a good strong support in further defining
static patterns, yet, still has the static patterns
that are egoless thus still drip with dq for all is
quality.


thanks.

dog needs to go out,
SA    


 
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