LS Re: Meditation


Magnus Berg (MagnusB@DataVis.se)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 04:21:35 +0100


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>First I think we should draw a parallel between Phaedrus' experience >with Quality in the bedless bedroom, staring at the wall for three days >and three nights, and a Buddhist monk's Enlightenment experience. This >parallel is illustrated in The Guidebook to Zen... quite well. Now, my >question: would this quiet meditation be a way of removing Dynamic >Quality or directly experiencing it? I use Dynamic Quality since the >experience seems to be far from Static Quality. Any thoughts? > I'd pick the latter. Without having read the Guide you mentioned, I'd say that it would be a case of "Ritual" Pirsig talks about. The staring would become so automatic and all conscious thought would halt. So, the only thing left would be dynamic Quality.

The only thing "removed" would be almost all levels of static Quality, at least the intellectual, social and bilogical levels.

> Magnus >

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