[MD] fugue as a static pattern of value

[MarshaV]

Hi Michael,

Is there danger of a pattern becoming an inherently existing entity?  No...  The fundamental nature of static quality is Dynamic Quality.  Or form is emptiness, emptiness is form.  Or nirvana is samsara.  I might say that Dynamic Quality runs through the veins of all that is language and all that is not language.  

I love language.  Does a dog have Buddha nature? Yes, because all things have Buddha nature. No, because all things have no nature.  Don't you just love it?  Doesn't it make your heart beat fast?   

I don't much care for your example of 'woman penetrating the barrier.'  It sounds like too much male storytelling (fantasy).  Roman centurion?  I find when it comes to interpreting women, men are quite clueless, though I do thank you for trying, and I will admit I am unsure of your exact meaning in offering the example.


Marsha
 
 
 
On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:38 AM, "Michael R. Brown" <mrb at fuguewriter.com> wrote:

> Hi M. -
> 
> There's always the danger of ossification.
> 
> A New Age system I like - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Michael_Teachings - says "As soon as a religion is written down, it dies."
> 
> I know Pirsig isn't (explicitly) trying for a new religion.
> 
> Yet out of the archeology of dead traces, new life comes.
> 
> I think his moment with the plant and the lady watering it is immortal. We reach it *through* the static letters on pages. D.H. Lawrence has a moment like that in "The Rainbow." Ursula, his 1910s New Woman heroine, is bored stuff studying Latin. Then, all of the sudden, she feels the blood going through the veins of a Roman centurion. She's penetrated the barrier.
> 
> Impossible without the "dead language"!
> 
> 
> MRB
> 
> 
> On 10/24/2012 8:23 AM, MarshaV wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> My memory is not as accurate as yours, the quote actually reads:
>> 
>>     "He disliked dogs, ..." (ZAMM, Chapter 7)
>> 
>> How strange it must be to have your likes and dislikes made static by being a comment made in a book published in 1974.  It might be that in 2012, RMP loves dogs, and like Schopenhauer is particularly fond of poodles.
>>  Marsha
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