DQ is CHANGE
CHANGE is DEATH
DEATH is Holy
Holy is DQ
DQ is God.
Hi Squad,
PAST = STATIC(sq) = GOOD= LIFE= WOMAN
EVIL^
FUTURE= DYNAMIC(dq)= BETTER= DEATH= MAN
When 'Better' (in the above equation) look back at 'Good' it sees good as
Evil. That is about as real as evil ever gets. Evil is an ephemeral product
of time/quality/space evolution.
The big thing that Pirsig missed was the significance of the Yin/Yang symbol
to his search for a resolution of the split between subject and object.
WHY? Because the yin/yang symbol has a spot of black in the white half and a
spot of black in the white half.
SO WHAT? That means the black and white are seperate but interpenetrated
with each other. Now, if only we could show that subject and object are not
forever split into seperate realms, but are likewise interpenetrated with
each other. Along comes Pirsig with his idea that Quality is what produces
both subject and object.
SO WHAT DID HE MISS? He missed the chance to redefine the subject-object
split.
Classically defined: 'Mind' is split from 'Matter.'
And: 'True' reality is external to me and
objective.
Classically, I am forever split from objective reality unless I resort to
science.
Yet Pirsig uses madness as a vehicle to illumination. But he missed the clue
that lay between his own ears.
HIS BRAIN?
Yes. The Brain is itself interpenetrative. The right side controls the left
half of the body and vice versa. The centreline of the body is the true
location of the 'subject-object split.'
Get two pictures. One of a man standing. One of a woman. Slice both
pictures down the centreline of the body. Scrunch one half of each body into
a ball and discard in the bin. Keep the other half of the man and half of
the woman. Can you recreate the full man?
WITH A MIRROR?
Well done. You didn't have to reflect very long to come up with that idea.
"Reflect" ! Thinking is like looking in a miror. We can put a mirror up to
the half-man and it magically re-creates the other half. Suppose the mirror
was a mirror of transformation. Would the illusory half be the same or
better.
BETTER I SUPPOSE.
Yes. But this is the magic! If the ordinary half looks in the mirror at the
new better half then it will perceive the better half as it's reflection.
This interaction across the mirror is life/evolution. But have you heard the
term 'other half' before?
OTHER HALF MEANS SPOUSE?
How's the other half? How true is that phrase. Heathcliffe and Cathy from
Wuthering Heights are proof of the proposition by Jung that there is a woman
within the man and a man within the woman. The Anumus and Anima. So our
other half is a Yin/Yang relationship. An interpenetrated duality. We marry
as conscious individuals. Our anumis and anima marry unconsciously. The spot
of white in the black and the spot of black in the white. Yin and Yang
again. But what else does that symbol tell us?
TO DO WITH THE SPOTS? Yes. The spot is the microcosm. The whole symbol is
the macrocosm. The spot is the tiny human brain- like a box camera with
pinhole eyes running an internal movie of life. Man is the measure. The
symetrical split down the centre of our bodies is the clue to our origin.
HOW IS THAT?
We are mirror images of ourselves about a vertical line. "Let us create man
in our own image and likeness," as it says in the Bible. Quality is God
though Pirsig shies clear of baldly stating this in Lila.
The worn out mythos has not collapsed at all. It is doomed- certainly. But
it lives still, constrained only by available resources. The environment is
that resource.
More broadly, we can say that every morning we wake up to our own personal
worn out mythos. The challenge is to live each day in a "Now" that
dynamically overcomes our static past. If we all do that as a society- we
will have built heaven.
From: Clark <clark@netsites.net>
> My view of Dynamic Quality is that it came into existence at the time of
>the origin of the universe. The evolution of the universe is the result of
>the functioning of Dynamic Quality. As we know from Pirsig's ideas, every
>step in the development of the inorganic universe represents Value and
>Quality. There is no such thing as good or bad. all is good.
> This situation prevailed up until the development of human sentience. In
>your terms the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. I lumped the end of this
>period into the biological level to avoid long explanations but the dawn of
>sentience probably occurred toward the end of the biological level. As I
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