Nicholas Szekeres (nszekeres@hotmail.com)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:44:40 +0100
i have been reading the ls for the past couple of days and i have never
heard such a bunch of crap in a long time. the buddha simply held up a
flower.
>Reply-To: lilasqd@hkg.com
>Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 10:02:15 +0000
>From: Nick Adams <Nick@SiliconSalon.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of <lilasqd@mail.hkg.com>
>Subject: LS Re: Explain the Dynamic-Static split
>
>Dear lila squad,
>
>Several attempts to check-in have been thwarted, the most recent being
a
>local power outage in the middle of composing a post, such is life in
>the epi-centre of Silicon Valley....
>
>>From the beginning I've had trouble with using the term "split" since
I do not see Dynamic and Static Quality as being split per se but rather
that they work with one another....
>
>Also, "permanence" seems too absolute a term in describing Static
>Quality....
>
>So.....
>
>I prefer "Stability" to permanence and by this I mean, by way of
>example, the example of mountain climbing given in ZMM....where the
>climber needs to make sure that his base camp is together before
>attempting to scale the peaks....ie in order to achieve Dynamic Quality
>Static Quality must be in place, they are not mutually exclusive....or
>"split"
>
>P. expands on this in lila when he he did the etymology of "arete"
>coming up with that beautiful string of language that describes
>arithmetic.....
>
>If you remember he hit on a string of words: rote, routine, ritual that
>at first made him feel like he had backed himself into a corner moving
>him away from his idea of Quality and placing himself back in the realm
>of Victorian "virtue."
>
>He then describes the ritual practise of Zen monks, who do not fight
>Static Quality, but rather embrace it, body and soul....it is by this
>embrace of Static Quality, by doing the same thing over and over and
>over by rote that the monk is able imbue himself with Static Quality
>thus allowing Dynamic Quality to emerge......
>
>And his description of that earth-shatttering piece of music that one
>hears on the radio....yes it has a Dynamic effect on the listener,
which
>eventually fades into Static Quality....
>
>however....
>
>It must also be considered that for this piece of music to emerge
>Dynamically there must be a Static element in place as well....
>
>ie the musician must go through, in some cases, years of dedicated
>routine to produce such a piece of Dynamic music, it don't come from
>nowhere....
>
>Same goes for the listener, there must be an element of Static Quality
>in place so that this Dynamic piece of music can be recognized as
>Dynamic, otherwise it's just noise.....
>
>And I'd like to re-iterate my example of viewing the World Wide Web as
a
>single page.....
>
>The Web, seen this way is a Static element, all in one piece, and the
>interaction it creates becomes Dynamic, which in turn becomes Static,
>which in turn becomes Dynamic.....
>
>So....in brief.....
>
>I see Static as a stable pattern and Dynamic growing out of that
>stability into something better which in turn becomes Static, which
lays
>the groundwork for the Dynamic to emerge....
>
>endlessly....
>
>oh, never mind, the quote from the Dao in ZMM does a better job of it
>than
>I can....
>
>Regards,
>
>Nick
>
>
>
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