[MD] Metaphysics: what it is good for?

[francisco albano]

  dmb:
Pirsig repeatedly issues the same sort of warning with respect to intellectual static patterns. Metaphysics is a 30,000 page menu but we ought not try to eat the menu. We don't mistake static intellectual portraits of DQ for DQ itself either. Static patterns of either kind can help evoke an experience of the "transcendent", if you're lucky, but the opposite effect is far more likely. A "transcendent" experience is more likely to shatter those fossilized, brittle and rigid truths of the past than affirm them.  
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>Paco:
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>I think that the key to experiencing  the "transcendent" (in ritual or in  free but disciplined form) is contemplative SILENCE. Static patterns, meditation, space, time, self are "noise", but valuable noise. When the noise fades, amazing surprise of "the transcendent", DQ, or whatever equivalent term is available, emerges. The experience may be sustained, or sustains itself only for a few brief moments because  the mind intrudes to define it. Whatever the the definition, it's noise again.  Ah, but the experience raises the Self  to high quality. If you're lucky.
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>May Yahweh bless you and keep you!
>May Yahweh let  his face shine on you, and be gracious to you!
>May Yahweh look kindly on you, and give you his peace!  (Num. 6:24-26)
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