[MD] Contradiction and incoherence

[MarshaV]

This quote seems so appropriate for Subject: title.


"From the static point of view the whole escape into Dynamic Quality seems like a death experience. It's a movement from something to nothing. How can 'nothing' be any different from death? Since a Dynamic understanding doesn't make the static distinctions necessary to answer that question, the question goes unanswered. All the Buddha could say was, 'See for yourself.' 

"When early Western investigators first read the Buddhist texts they too interpreted nirvana as some kind of suicide. There's a famous poem that goes: 

"While living, 
Be a dead man. 
Be completely dead, 
And then do as you please. 

"And all will be well. It sounds like something from a Hollywood horror-film but it's about nirvana. The Metaphysics of Quality translates it: 

"While sustaining biological and social patterns 
Kill all intellectual patterns. 
Kill them completely And then follow Dynamic Quality 
And morality will be served."

     (LILA, Chapter 32)