[MD] The Nature of Quality(DQ/sq)

[John Carl]

Like DQ is the north pole, and sq is the needle, right?

John

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

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> My main point for posting these quotes was simply to present the fact that
> within the MoQ DQ (ultimate truth) is the fundamental nature of sq
> (conventional truth.)
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> As noted above, Pirsig uses the term ‘Dynamic Quality’ (to denote the
> continually changing flux of immediate reality) and ‘static quality’ (for
> any pattern that appears long enough to be abstracted from this flux).
> ‘Static quality’ refers to anything that can be conceptualised and is a
> synonym for the conditioned in Buddhist philosophy.
>
>         (McWatt,Anthony, 'MoQ Textbook)
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> On Oct 13, 2010, at 1:32 AM, MarshaV wrote:
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> > Below it state that the fundemental nature of static quality is Dynamic
> Quality:
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> > Moreover, Nagarjuna (1966, p.251) shares Pirsig’s perception that the
> indeterminate (or Dynamic) is the fundamental nature of the conditioned (or
> static):
> >
> >    In their ultimate nature things are devoid of conditionedness
> >    and contingency belongs to this level. This very truth is revealed
> >    by also saying that all things ultimately enter the indeterminate
> >    dharma or that within the heart of every conditioned entity (as its
> >    core, as its true essence, as its very real nature) there is the
> >    indeterminate dharma. While the one expresses the transcendence
> >    of the ultimate reality, the other speaks of its immanence. The one
> >    says that the ultimate reality is not an entity apart and wholly
> >    removed from the determinate, but is the real nature of the
> >    determinate itself.
> >
> > Nagarjuna and Pirsig also have a similar recognition of two types of
> truth; the ‘static’ conventional truth (sammuti-sacca) and the ‘Dynamic’
> ultimate truth (paramattha-sacca).
> >
> >         (Mcwatt,Anthony, 'MoQ Textbook)
> >
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