[MD] kill all intellectual patterns

[Michael R. Brown]

It all comes from mistranslating "dukha"!

The Noble Truth, more accurately translated, is: life gets out of joint.


MRB

On 11/19/2012 12:01 AM, MarshaV wrote:
> "When early Western investigators first read the Buddhist texts they too interpreted nirvana as some kind of suicide. There's a famous poem that goes:
>
> While living,
> Be a dead man.
> Be completely dead,
> And then do as you please.
> And all will be well.
>
> "It sounds like something from a Hollywood horror-film but it's about nirvana. The Metaphysics of Quality translates it:
>
> While sustaining biological and social patterns
> Kill all intellectual patterns.
> Kill them completely
> And then follow Dynamic Quality
> And morality will be served.
>
> ...
>
> "When Phaedrus first went to India he'd wondered why, if this passage of enlightenment into pure Dynamic Quality was such a universal reality, did it only occur in certain parts of the world and not others? At the time he'd thought this was proof that the whole thing was just Oriental religious baloney, the equivalent of a magic land called 'heaven' that Westerners go to if they are good and get a ticket from the priests. Now he saw that enlightenment is distributed in all parts of the world just as the color yellow is distributed in all parts of the world, but some cultures accept it and others screen out recognition of it."
>
>             (LILA, Chapter 32)
>
>                              * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience but to bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing, static, intellectual attachments of the past. "
>
>             (LILA, Chapter 9)
>
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