[MD] Boromir's Journey

[gav]

hiya,

steve: Faith: The notion that the world as it is now is perfect and that
changing it would only ruin it.

gav: i disagree here. i would say that faith is implicitly aware that you can't ruin perfection - you can only peturb it. 

the notion (of faith) is entirely self-referential: faith is faith in oneself



What do you think?

Best,
Steve


Pirsig to  McWatt, January 14th 1994
"The Sioux concept of self and higher self is one I hadn’t heard of. At
first sight it seems like a striking confirmation of the universality of
mystic understanding. In Zen Buddhism ‘Big-Self’ and ‘small-self’ are
fundamental teaching concepts. The small-self, the static patterns of ego,
is attracted by the ‘perfume’ of the ‘Big-Self’ which it senses is around
but cannot find or even identify. (There is a Hindu parable in which a small
fish says, ‘Mother, I have searched everywhere, but I cannot find this thing
they call water’). Through suppression of the small-self by meditation or
fasting or vision quests or other disciplines, the Big-Self can be revealed
in a moment sometimes called 180 degrees enlightenment. Then a long
discipline is undertaken by which the Big-Self takes over and dissolves the
small-self into a 360 degrees enlightenment or full Buddhahood."
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