Doug Renselle (renselle@on-net.net)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 20:01:26 +0100
Hi Platt and TLS,
Platt Holden wrote:
>
> Hi Diana and LS:
>
...
> If life is "migration toward Dynamic Quality," and if the "only
> perceived
> good" of Dynamic Quality is freedom, it follows that life is a
> migration
> toward freedom. Without this migration propelled by the energy of the
> "free
> force of life," static patterns "simply die of old age."
>
> To say "The highest good is the correct balance of Dynamic and static"
> is
> to imply that the highest good is some sort of static condition. To
> say the
> highest good in the MoQ is Quality itself is a tautology. Pirsig tells
> us
> what the highest good is in Chapter 15. "From the cells' point of view
> sex
> is pure Dynamic Quality, the highest good of all."
>
> I think we should reinstate the original Evolution principle. The
> objection
> raised about pure freedom being pure chaos doesn't hold up because
> chaos is
> simply a word we use to describe experience we cannot comprehend. In
> chaos
> theory we've discovered an underlying order in much of what we
> previously
> thought was unbridled freedom. Anyway, Pirsig says flatly in Chapter
> 11,
> "Dynamic Quality is not structured and yet it is not chaotic." In the
> principles, at least, we ought to go by what Pirsig says.
>
Platt,
Are you saying ultimate reality is pure DQ?
The violin metaphor is a good one to use here: DQ + SQ in balance to
make beautiful music in the hands of another metaphor of DQ + SQ called
Homo sapiens. The frame by itself is too static. The strings in a pile
on the floor are too chaotic or too free/unconfined. Together we have
the potential for harmony.
Mtty, Platt,
Doug Renselle.
> Platt
>
> Catch 32: We cannot really describe reality in words because the words
> we
> use to describe reality are part of the reality we're trying to
> describe.
> (Thanks Martin!)
>
-- "Don't throw away those Mu answers. . .They're the ones you GROW on!"By Robert M. Pirsig, in 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,' p. 290, Bantam (paperback), 28th edition, 1982.
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