[MD] Returning to Quality

[Andre]

Hello MOQ'rs:
This is from the forword to Dainin Katagiri Roshi's "Returning to 
Silence". I have bracketted certain names and words.

"I am honored to introduce [Pirsig's] deep and beautiful [ZMM and LILA] 
books. It took me a long time to read [them]. I still have not read 
every word. [They are not  books] to 'get through'. [They are books] to 
live in. Many books are read in pausing from life, when you take some 
time off, when you escape, put everything on hold. [These book are 
such]; when you live in [them] you are more outside it, more in life. 
Read [them] a little and keep [them] near your places. Let [them] be a 
friend. Let [them] help you keep the trivia in perspective.
 From the very beginning the [books] corners you. [Phaedrus]plainly 
tells us: 'The opportunity to experience real [Quality] occurs when we 
have been driven into a corner and simply cannot move an inch.'And he 
advises wisely that it only takes transcending desire (the quieting of 
values are the most difficult, see ZMM) to turn despair at being 
cornered into real [Quality], Buddha [Quality], the total manifestation 
of our whole personality.

What [books]. What great [gifts]. To open to us our corner. To show us 
how, being absolutely trapped is the total freedom of being with all 
beings. [Phaedrus] can do this because he speaks without budging from 
such a corner, he speaks in the totality of such [Quality]. He and the 
corner and his words and the [Quality] are among the dimensions of the 
books. Its covers opens and its inconceivability is accessed in our eye 
and brain and heart, and our mind and the book and [Phaedrus], and 
boundless crying and laughing Buddhas are all together in the bliss 
dimensions'.

Perhaps I am exaggerating a bit but it captures the 'spirit' of the MOQ 
quite well imho.

Andre.