[MD] Why are things called patterns?

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

> On Mar 18, 2012, at 5:16 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>> "Dynamic Quality is defined constantly by everyone. Consciousness can be described is a process of defining Dynamic Quality. But once the definitions emerge, they are static patterns and no longer apply to Dynamic Quality. So one can say correctly that Dynamic Quality is both infinitely definable and undefinable because definition never exhausts it."
>>    (Lila's Child)
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>> "Moreover, Nagarjuna (1966, p.251) shares Pirsig’s perception that the indeterminate (or Dynamic) is the fundamental nature of the conditioned (or static)..."
>>    (MoQ Textbook)
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>> "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.  Form is not other than emptiness; emptiness is not other than form."
>>     (Heart Sutra)
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>> Marsha:
>> Static quality is not other than Dynamic Quality; Dynamic Quality is not other than static quality.
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>>>>> Dan:
>>>>> Seeing static patterns of quality as ever-changing
>>>>> and impermanent seems to go against Robert Pirsig's notion that it is
>>>>> best to find a balance between Dynamic Quality and static quality.
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> Marsha:
> Dan, maybe this is RMP's notion of balance; to know sq/DQ as the same.

Dan:
"But once the definitions emerge, they are static patterns and no
longer apply to Dynamic Quality." [RMP]

So if static quality and Dynamic Quality are known as the same, why
does Robert Pirsig say once definitions emerge they do not apply to
Dynamic Quality? If they were known as the same, wouldn't the opposite
be said to be true?

Thank you,

Dan

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