[MD] a view

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
I was thinking about the word 'kill' earlier.  I do think that 'kill' 
is a bit strong.  It seems they die a natural death when you don't 
lift them into awareness; they just kind of dissolve.  No act of 
violence required.

[Arlo]
My question continues to be why we should not let social patterns 
"dissolve" to serve morality? Do you think that preserving biological 
and social patterns is a message only to the western world? What 
about Bo's favorite "social" culture, the Muslims? In order to follow 
Dynamic Quality, don't you think that they would need to "dissolve" 
their social patterns? Why not us? If the West needs to "dissolve" 
its intellectual patterns in order for morality to be served, does 
that mean things like fundamentalist religions do NOT stand in the way of this?

Just so you know  where I am coming from, I think Pirsig's attempt to 
"translate" that verse into MOQ-speak is interesting but ultimately 
problematic. When discussing the morality of the hippies, he makes a 
more internally consistent statement that following DQ means 
"dissolving" both intellectual and social patterns, and I'd argue 
that the Zenist would say dissolving static biological patterns as 
well. Meaning, getting to that Zero-Point of preconceptual awareness 
means challenging or "dissolving" all static barriers to "something new".

As such, it is not uniquely "intellect" that gums up the works, its 
an adherence to static patterns per se; be they social, intellectual 
or even biological. Any static pattern can be a prison if given power 
to blind people to new things, not *just* those abhorrent 
intellectual patterns. And escape (pursuing DQ) comes from an 
abandonment to ALL static patterns, at least temporarily, to see if 
something better can be found.

We can demonize "intellect" until we are blue in the face, but all 
that serves is championing stupidity.