[MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

[Platt Holden]

Hi Khoo, > 
 
> My physical body may age and be at a certain chronological point.
> However
> my mind is eternally youthful, perpetually in the same state the day it
> saw through the shallow chronocentricity of the world and their attempts
> to enslave it to time. It as stayed as young as the day it broke free
> from the shackles of time.

I presume "mind" as you use it here means the same as Pirsig's pure 
experience prior to concepts. Also, it occurred to me while reading the 
above that if the mind is "eternally youthful" doesn't it follow that it    
survives the body's demise? Further, the concept of "breaking free" is the 
heart of DQ. All the great changes that enhanced the evolution of life 
involved "breaking free," whether in art, science or philosophy. Pirsig, 
for example, responding to DQ, freed morals form the shackles of society.  
 
> Religion likewise is a shackle on the mind. The Metaphysics of Quality
> as
> described by Pirsig can help you break that shackle. Religion is what
> ordinary mortals think they need to support their temporary existence
> here on Earth. If the ordinary mortal can attain the insight to grasp
> the
> MOQ, he or she achieves a permanence, and has no more need of religion;
> shedding it as if it were your old previous skin."

Lest we get too carried away with bashing religion, we should distinguish 
between religious institutions and the religious experience, as Pirsig 
does:

"The Metaphysics of Quality associates religious mysticism with Dynamic 
Quality but it would certainly be a mistake to think that the Metaphysics 
of Quality endorses the static beliefs of any particular religious sect. 
Phaedrus thought sectarian religion was a static social fallout from 
Dynamic Quality and that while some sects had fallen less than others, none 
of them told the whole truth." (Lila, 30)

Thanks, Khoo. Wish you had more time to contribute to the discussion here.
Your thoughts are always of the highest quality.

Platt