[MD] MOQ Recursion

[Mary]

Hi Platt,

> Hi Mary,
> 
> Right you are. Pirsig agrees. The MOQ uses SOM intellect "to make
> itself
> known," but the "central reality of the MOQ is not an object or subject
> or
> anything else. It is understood by direct experience only and not by
> reasoning
> of any kind." SOM intellect "doesn't tell us anything about the essence
> of the
> MOQ." (LS,132)
> 
> Thus, quagmires like recursion that spring from the limitations of SOM
> are
> irrelevant to understanding the MOQ. Rather, the essence of the MOQ is
> apprehended this way:
> 
> "Like the empty sky it has no boundaries
> Yet it is right here ever serene and clear.
> When you seek to attain it, you cannot see it.
> You cannot take hold of it.
> But neither can  you lose it.
> 
>                           -- Yung-chia
> 

What you say here and quote here is very lovely.  It is true that recursion
is a problem if you are trying to shoehorn Value, Morals, and Quality into
concepts, but as you say, all this dissolves when we see the _inadequacy_ of
the intellect to comprehend.

Best,
Mary