Re: LS Righteousmess (ever jealous of your dog?)

From: Robert Stillwell (Stills@Bigfoot.com)
Date: Thu Jun 17 1999 - 02:33:42 BST


To Bo and to all!

Bo said:
It is the Intellectual level and its cohabitation with Society that is - and have
been - the problem for as long as history goes.

I had a similar thought to this a few week's ago. I've always been perplexed why
the MOQ levels seemed to *explain* everything I had learned from Eastern philosophy
about being in the moment, not living in fear, and so forth. The MOQ
categorization-into-levels approach seemed fundamentally different. To me, it
brought back the "objective", disconnected, false sense of confidence that Pisig
associated with SO thinking. "I do this because it is more dynamic / a higher
level" seemed to replace "I do this because I am very experienced, sensitive to the
situation, knowlegable and am following my intuition."

An answer hit me. Yes, it is our fears, insecurities and insensitivities that cause
us to do wrong when we otherwise know better. Yet, what causes our fears -- other
people or society!!! That is the link between the levels and Eastern philosophy.
I've never heard:

a) A man being insecure when others noticed his dog was faster than him.
b) A woman being jealous because a bird had a prettier voice.
c) A boy hating the television set because everyone liked it more than him.

These are silly examples but I am very serious! Take away other people and 98% of
our insecurities/insensitivties are gone. Pirisigism would, for example,
categorize the mean things we do to be popular as the social level fighting the
intellectual level. Isn't it more meaningful to categorize it as fear? Our mental
*comparisions* to other people make us insensitive to reality.

Our remedy is to teach sensitivity, introspection, meditation. To foster
unconditional love so that we are not obsessed with thoughts of others. These
things are the catalyst for righteousness -- not teaching levels.

Do I have something here?

MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org



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