From: Joe (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 19:54:24 GMT
On 22 Dec 2003 6:36 AM Khoo writes:
Enlightenment may not come too on this mailing list - but just as you,
Platt, Bo and Mark, myself and everyone else signed on, there is a keen
interest to find out what Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality could be and how
it could be acheived. However, each and every discussant or lurker is only
able to appreciate the Metaphysics of Quality at their own level of
understanding and preparedness. If only someone would write an "MOQ for
Dummies".
But every now and then we are afforded our occasional metaphysical insights,
flashes of dharmakaya light which Pirsig refers to in Lila Chap 26: " It
signals a Dynamic intrusion upon a static situation...When there is a
letting go of static patterns the light occurs. ... The light would occur
during the breakup of the static patterns of the person's intellect as it
returned into the pure Dynamic Quality from which it emerged in infancy."
Hi Khoo and all,
joe: i am reading WITNESS the autobiography of John G. Bennett. His
description of a 'dharmakaya light' experience:
"I was traveling alone to Paris by the Golden Arrow. I had finished lunch
an hour or so beyond Calais, and was drinking coffee. As I put my cup down
my attention was deawn to my breathing, and in the brief instant when the
flow of breath changed from inspiration to expiration, I became aware of
Eternity. This was the first time in my life that I lived through a
timeless event: though it is common enough between sleeping and waking to
have long and vivid dreams that occupy seconds and seem to last for hours.
This was not at all like a dream--there were no visions, no images, nothing
happened, not even a thought. It was a state of pure cognition, a luminous
certainty. The central truth was the imperishability of the will. Body
perishes, and all the functioins that depend upon the body turn into dreams
and eventually fade away. Even my very self, my own existence and the
feeling of 'I' that accompanies it, could endure only for a time. But my
will was out of time and space, and nothing could destroy it." (p. 276
paperback edition).
I accept that enlightenment is possible. The MoQ describes this
possibility. The state of pure cognition of DQ is a wonder. Bennett uses
'will' as SQ. Can the cognition of 'organic', 'social', 'intellectual'
orders be a act of pure cognition, and, therefore, impossible to describe
without a reference to SQ?
I am left considering that conscious cannot evolve from the non-conscious,
the organic from the inorganic, the social from the organic, and the
intellectual from the social. Who needs descriptions anyway?
Joe
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