[MD] Is thoroughly dynamic terrifying?

[gav]

returning to the thread title.....

i am speculating, mostly, but i think the answer is
no. 

....although there is a quote of emerson's which may
be salient and which captures how i felt recently one
morning in the back seat of a hired car with three
friends as we meandered through a valley drenched in
sunlight and buzzing with life:

"crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight
under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any
occurrence of special good fortune, i have a enjoyed a
perfect exhilaration. *i am glad to the brink of
fear*."

from the essay 'nature'.

this point seems to concord with the Taoist principle
of extreme yin producing yang, and vice versa. 
however the fear here, in my case anyway, was a fear
more of losing that feeling....of not expressing that
joy....of not riding the wave all the way....perhaps
it is also the fear induced by the ego upon awareness
of its immanent oblivion.

("fear is not real unless you want it to be"
 the howling bells)


....the goal of meditation is, ultimately, union with
the Dynamic source. this is often referred to as
'bliss' (hardly terrifying). 

in the MOQ, experience is ontologically prior to
matter. this is idealism. materialism always refers to
what is left in the wake of experience...mistaking the
products of mind for the causes of mind/experience.

but are all experiences equal? of course not. most
experience is conditioned - thorougly conditioned by
the  concepts of society and intellect....which is how
materialism seemed like it made any sense in the first
place.

slough off those concepts and we get closer and closer
to the dynamic (which can be said to be the absence of
the static). perhaps such a deep level of meditation
is possible that even time and space are sloughed off.


i think that the irruption of the dynamic into normal,
highly conditioned consciousness can seem scary. it
can also seem fucking amazing - ecstasy - because
everything is relative. context, mate, context.

 gradual union (ie yoga) with the source through
meditation etc i reckon is unlikely to be scary at
all. rather more and more peaceful, blissful.

in any case, experience ain't just experience. it
isn't enough to assert that anything experienced is
real and  anything not isn't. this is just a good
start. a philosophy of the good, a moral philosophy,
infers a movement towards particular types of
experience: a natural movement towards better and
better experiences.

because this movement is natural, is the way of the
universe, it must be *surrendered* to. it is by doing
nothing that everything is done (wu wei).

surely this is the most beautiful paradox for our
stressed out, exasperated world: stop trying!!!!!!!
give up!!!!! people of the world, relax!












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