[MD] aggregates of grasping

[MarshaV]

On Mar 6, 2012, at 3:35 AM, "Ham Priday" <hampday1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> I find it interesting that our beloved Marsha, who has consistently denied her selfness, now denies her ability to form opinions, as well.  After reviewing Mark's analysis of her March 4 dissertation on feelings and their ownership, Marsha responded:
> 
>> I don't know enough to form an opinion.  It is extremely interesting, though,
>> and I hope to learn more.
> 
> One can only wonder what all those quotes posted from the Vedanta and Buddhist scholars are intended to express if not her opinion.  Marsha has certainly formulated her own opinion of what a SOM pattern is, since "ever-changing, conditionally co-dependent and impermanent, static patterns of inorganic, biological, social and intellectual value" has become the mantra that identifies her.

Hello Ham,

You must have been reading my thoughts, for I have surely been thinking about you, and hoping you would find a way to do what you do so well.  

I would like to comment on the term "SOM pattern".  For the expression seems both true and false.  The mind does seem to have evolved to reify ALL useful experience into objects of conception & perception; it is a very insidious tendency.  I do believe my definition of static patterns helps to move one's ideas about "objects" from discrete, bounded, objective entities to ones of pragmatically formed, recursive, interdependent "patterns of value (processes)".

And, yes, I have found much useful detail presented by Vedanta and Buddhist scholars.  It often surprises me how clearly they present very difficult and strange (to the Western way of thinking) ideas. But always I believe one should continually check and verify.


Marsha