[MD] The Quality of Free Will

[MarshaV]

Did the Wright brother pursue flight because of suffering?  I don't think so...   


On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:46 AM, MarshaV wrote:

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> J-A,
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> On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Jan-Anders Andersson wrote:
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>> Hi Marsha
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>> Before you dive into the deep. Have you ever read this? It's an excerpt from a letter written by RMP to Anthony McWatt, March 23, 1997:
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>> " ... 
>> The MOQ is in agreement with the Buddhist law of Dependent Origination and regards this law as an excellent explanation of how Dynamic Quality becomes static patterns of quality. The Buddhists however, say that the source of patterns is ignorance, whereas the MOQ says the source of the patterns is the "nothingness" of Dynamic Quality. It seems to me that this is self-contradictionary for the Buddhists to say that that the world is all nothingness and then in almost in the same breath say that everything we know arises from something that is not nothingness. This separates nothingness and not-nothingness into a deadly dualism. When it is said that the static patterns arise from Dynamic Quality the non-dualistic view of the world so characteristic of Buddhism is preserved.
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>> The MOQ says, as does Buddhism, that the best place on the wheel of karma is the hub and not the rim where one is thrown about by the gyration of everyday life. But the MOQ sees the wheel of karma as attached to a cart that is going somewhere - from quantum forces through inorganic forces and biological patterns and social patterns to the intellectual patterns that percieve the quantum forces. In the sixth century B.C. in India there was no evidence of this kind of evolutionary progress, and Buddhism, accordingly, does not pay attention to it. Today it's not possible to be so uninformed. The suffering which the Buddhists regard as only that which is to be escaped, is seen by the MOQ as merely the negative side of the progression toward Quality (or, just as accurately, the expansion of quality.) Without the suffering to propel it, the cart would not move forward at all.
>> ..."
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