From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Oct 28 2004 - 07:29:52 BST
Hello Platt:
<snip
> > <Platt Said:>
> > "Pirsig describes faith as "a willingness to believe in falsehoods."
> >
> > He also says that it's "possible for more than one set of truths to
exist."
> >
> > So how does he distinguish a truth from a falsehood?
> >
> > If, as he said, one should choose truth on the basis of its quality,
like
> > choosing paintings in a gallery, then truth becomes a matter of personal
> > belief. And so, logically, do falsehoods.
> >
> > Perhaps someone will explain this apparent contradiction. Why is faith
in
> > what's true any different than faith in what's false?."
> >
mel:
I wonder if the answer to the apparent contradiction
is right in what you've shown above...
statement two: ...more than one set of truths...as it implies
as you've said "personal belief", but taken one step it may
be that it applies to personal experience. You have faith
in what you have experienced as real, as being true, and
likewise each of us assume truth to our own experience of
what is real in our lives.
So, the false part comes in the inability to share another's
"personal belief" as outgrowth of another's experience. If
we ungraciously press our belief in lieu of discovery on
another they are forced to bear a false "truth", because they
have not attained it.
put another way...a man who studies thought for decades
and finds a flash of sustained dynamic clarity, a flood of
quality in the structure of what he has prepared in his mind
and which prepared him in experience, then for him there is
immense high value. To a student decades later, the degraded
and burdened extract as taught in a university department may
be a low quality experience yielding naught.
Similarly a guest at Ryoanji may drop through the entire world
as everything becomes other than itself and undivided insight
in Dynamic Quality brings everything together into just what it is.
But to the woman in a Northeast dojo who feels violated by her
fellow travelers will find in the resulant tradition a sham of no
quality.
A holy man in a mosque may dissappear into surrender and
life bcomes purity, yet the later degraded madrasa of a distant
student twists impressionable youth into worshipers of
destruction, givers of pain.
Endless possible examples of one gets it and there is no
successful transfer to another's experience. The faith in one
does not yeild truth in another...following the empty form will
however bring falsehood.
just a thought.
thanks--mel
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