[MD] SOM's defect comes home to roost

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 2 Dec 2009 at 18:11, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> [Platt]
> Perhaps you'll share with us your opinion of what constitutes "the 
> spirit of the MOQ." In my opinion it's "freedom
> 
> [Arlo]
> When they call it freedom, that's not right. "Freedom" doesn't mean 
> anything. Freedom's just an escape from something negative. The real 
> reason it's so hallowed is that when people talk about it they mean 
> Dynamic Quality.
> 
> Your "spirit" then, is one-half the puzzle. In my opinion, the 
> "spirit of the MOQ" is "harmony". Or perhaps "Zen". Or perhaps 
> "care". Or perhaps "art/artfulness".

No puzzle. DQ = freedom, a moral force, the source of all things. 

"Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of realty, the source 
of all things, completely simple and always new. It was the moral force 
that had motivated the brujo in Zuni. It contains no pattern of fixed 
rewards and punishments. Its only perceived good is freedom and its 
only perceived evil is static quality itself-any pattern of one-sided fixed 
values that tries to contain and kill the ongoing free force of life." (Lila,9)