[MD] Dewey's Zen

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Ant had said to David H.:
I've also qualified the above illustrations with the word "largely" as I think Dave Buchanan's comment (pasted below) that Dynamic Quality and static quality co-operate in every moment is an important qualification.  With the possible exception of some "meditative" states, experience will always be a mixture of the Dynamic and the static.  So while the average philosophy discussion will tend to be more Dynamic than a
philosophology class (the latter tending to devote a larger amount of time to 
established ideas and thinkers); both will be a mixture of Dynamic Quality and static quality patterns. 

Best wishes,

Anthony.

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David Buchanan stated March 28th:

The artful motorcycle mechanic, for example, cannot ride the Dynamic cutting edge of his repair work without also having a whole lot of static patterns under his belt. And this motorcycle is an analogy for any rational system. This is one of the points I was hoping to raise with this exercise, by the way.

One of the false impressions I've seen floating around way too much is that experience has to be just one or the other, has to be either Dynamic or static. I think instead that DQ and sq cooperate in every moment, like they are "married" to each. Static patterns are derived from and lead back to DQ or, as it's expressed above, static thinking couldn't even occur without DQ as it's felt and lived and that ongoing flux of experience is what the static patterns are about. You gotta have both, simultaneously, not one then the other or one to the exclusion of the other. 


Ron says:
I think that is what one aims for when one endeavors to "follow" Dynamic Quality, a carefully
blended harmony of those static patterns that encourage dynamic growth along with refining
that ability to accurately recognize those dynamic patterns which successfully provide that growth
by latching.
Having said that, I think to equate the following of Dynamic Quality with pursuing a "value-less"
state of "be-ing" is to miss the mark of what is aimed at. Yes, the "vacation" of an accumulation
of static patterns that leave one in a gumption trap, usually ones that have little consequence in
the now of experience is useful in that aim but it clearly isn't the destination point to rest at. The point
being, that by riding ourselves of those static patterns that destroy the will to act, we should not also
fall to the trap of eliminating that will to act altogether and call that "Good".
 

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