Thanks Platt, again you have a perfect quote to share.
I have no idea if this will make any sense to Bo (or IOW, if it was him who
didn't understand my points or vice versa).
Andrea
Platt Holden ha scritto:
> Hi Bo, Andrea:
>
> Regarding your debate about whether SOM's "Spirit" is the same as
> MOQ's "Dynamic Quality," I wonder how you interpret the following
> exchange reported by Jason Nelson in a post to the MD on 26 April,
> 1999:
>
> JASON:
> The following comments where made by Pirsig in the letter in
> response to my question of, "If certain religious questions could be
> proven true would those religious elements be at a higher level than
> quality itself."
>
> "Dear Jason Nelson,
> Thank you for your good letter. To answer your question, those aspects
> of religion which could be considered "dynamic right dharma" are at a
> higher level than intellectual truths, including the truths of the
> Metaphysical of Quality itself. The trouble is that religion always also
> means a set of static intellectual truths and a static social organization
> containing a lot of static biological people who own a lot of static
> inorganic property. These static patterns are so strong that the dynamic
> right dharma is all but lost."
>
> As a reminder, Pirsig describes dharma in Chap. 30: "Dharma is
> Quality itself, the principle of "rightness" which gives structure and
> purpose to the evolution of all life and to the evolving understanding of
> the universe which life has created." This comes close to "Holy Spirit"
> as I understand the word to mean in the Christian religion.
>
> Do this help clarify the debate or confuse matters more?
>
> Platt
>
>
>
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