[MD] relatively static

[Jan Anders Andersson]

But the point, Marsha, with using a concept, a static pattern about stability is to point at something that does NOT change.

You seem to call for something stable and unchanged about your own view when you say; "I have pointed out many times", don't you? Or are you able to change your own opinion, too?

Or why should you burn the clay?

J A


14 apr 2013 kl. 08.43 skrev MarshaV:

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> Greetings,
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> Dynamic Quality is indivisible, undefinable and unknowable - unpatterned.  There is nothing differentiable within Dynamic Quality to be changing; it is static patterns that change.   
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> "It’s fairly obvious from reading Pirsig’s texts that SOM is perceived by him as an example of ignorant thinking. Briefly, this is due to such systems ignoring the reality of Dynamic Quality. Why this is particularly ignorant is explained by the ‘Three Aspects’ of the Cittamatra school of Mahayana Buddhism.  Williams (1988, p.83) states that the First Aspect refers to the falsifying activity of language which implies independent and permanent existence to things. As Hagen -202- (1997, p.30) notes, one of the most fundamental truths noted by the Buddha is that all aspects of our experience are in constant flux and change. According to the Buddha, when a person ignores this truth they subject themselves to dukkha."
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> -202- Pirsig (1998b) notes that Hagen‘s text Buddhism: Plain & Simple ‘…shows the similarities, between the MOQ and Zen Buddhism more clearly than any other I have seen.’ "
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>  (McWatts, MoQ Textbook) 
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> Marsha:
> I have pointed out many times, it is not anti-intellectual or a contradiction to understand that patterns may maintain a static, stable identity at the same time as they and their context are undergoing constant change. Think of the Ship of Theseus, or a parade (Hume) where everyone drops out but is replaced so that the parade is maintained, or the body with its cells constantly being replaced.  Things can change - flow - and yet have permanence; think of a river.
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> Marsha
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