[MD] The MoQ and Politics? part 2 of 3

[MarshaV]

On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:58 AM, MarshaV wrote:

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> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:35 PM, John Carl wrote:
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>> Marsha:
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>> 
>>> There is a time when one's attention should be oriented toward external 
>>> duties, and there is a time when one's focus should be towards inner
>>> processes.  Society will constantly prescribe what the former should be,
>>> but for me the latter is to cultivate one's own understanding and virtue.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> See?  Flexible lines all over the place!  I see "one's own understanding" to
>> be in actuality, itself a social construct of aspects of the self that
>> you've gotten from readings or teachings.  In the end, there really is
>> nothing that comes entirely from within.  It's just which voices you heed in
>> the moment.
> 
> Marsha:
> Right - Quality (unpatterned/patterned).   
> 



John,

You are correct that most patterns that I cite come from external sources.  
When it comes to deconstructing the common-sense (spovs) view of reality, 
I have several sources, many hours of consideration and some first-hand 
unpatterened experiences.  I will list a few of the sources:  

Berger, Peter & Luckmann, Thomas, 'The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise 
      in the Sociology of Knowledge' 
Nietzsche, 'Human, All-Too-Human' (I think this is the correct book.) 
Pirsig, Robert, M., 'Lila'  
Nagarjuna, 'Mulamadhyamakakarika'  -  different translations & commentary 

I list the sources to illustrate that I've investigated this point-of-view from 
several different angles.  


Marsha







 
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