Westland@netcomuk.co.uk
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 05:03:19 +0100
Hi, I've been lurking now for quite a while mainly because I feel so
out of my depth in such deep philosophical company but I thought I'd
take a plunge into the water anyway.
What I feel about Pirsigs MOQ is basically ( and this will be a short
one) is that the subject versus object argument is reconciled by
QUALITY. Its what the Buddha called the middle way, to find it one has
to go to both extremes...subject (quality) and Object (quantity). what
Pirsig meant by QUALITY is the middle way of these two extremes. His
quality was a bringing together a synthesis of the two. You can't have
one without the other, if you do it creates an imbalance, you have to
reconcile these opposites with a third. They appear as opposites but
are not......a coin has two sides ...these appear as opposites but the
coin actually reconciles the two. I hope I'm making sense, I do feel
completely out of my depth, but this is what Zen meant to me. Thank
you Julie.
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