[MD] Awareness and consciousness in the MOQ

[MarshaV]

Hi dmb,

On Apr 21, 2012, at 5:25 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Marsha:
> ....Your DEMAND for conceptual clarity and logical coherence is pretty amusing in a discussion of a metaphysics where the author, himself, states that the MoQ "is essentially a contradiction in terms, a logical absurdity.".   And presenting a quote by the Dalai Lama doesn't miraculously make you an expert in conceptual clarity and logical coherence.  I'd say you're more experienced in whining, sighing, talk of impatience and ad hominem attacks.   Such is your intellectual competence.
> 
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> dmb replied:
> The MOQ is a contradiction because Metaphysics demands conceptual clarity and logical coherence whereas Quality (DQ) is pre-intellectual experience. But I'm not asking for a definition of DQ and Pirsig's remarks are not relevant to my complaints, which are about your denigration of intellectual quality (see above) in general and more particularly your foggy and contradictory claims about the self (no self). 
> 


Marsha:
But I was wondering why someone who is so prone to whining, sighing, impatience and ad hominem attacks would not think such a complaint quite amusing.  And I did ask where your understanding of mindfulness came from?  Experience?  




Marsha