Hello Dan; I agree with 95% of what you have written. Perfection is a process that is undergoing continuous improvement. It is not a static state or end game. Just because we believe we have achieved end game status does not give us reason can to fall asleep.
Perfection is a movement towards continuous improvement, its endless in all four areas of MOQ. There are no breaks, its endless, its progression is towards infinity. From: "Dan Glover" <daneglo...@gmail.com> To: "moq discuss" <moq_disc...@moqtalk.org> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 1:08:09 AM Subject: Re: [MD] The need for quality Wes, all, Right. The immortal lila is biological. Phaedrus recalls seeing Lila before only not Lila the single private person. What he remembers seeing is the lila who inhabits Lila for a while and then moves on. Biological cells are billions of years old while Lila has only been alive a short while. In comparison, yes, lila is immortal. I would hesitate to call that perfection, however, as you yourself say the eternal is continuously undergoing improvement. If lila is absolute perfection, then no improvement is possible. And yes, I believe Robert Pirsig said that he was aware of the li-la in Hindu philosophy but that is not why he named the character Lila. Thank you. On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:45 PM, WES STEWART <wes...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Thanks for the response Dan; > > ...and yes the Boat, and the Plastic Baby was Inorganic, Lila the Biological, > Rigel- Social and Pirsig the Intellectual. > > We can never be entirely certain of anything, however Lila is a a well known > and important term in Hindu philosophy. Robert Pirsig attended Banaras Hindu > University in India, to study Eastern philosophy and culture. > > This is from Lila Chapter 1. > > "There is Lila, this single private person who slept beside him now, who was > born and now lived and tossed in her dreams and will soon enough die and then > there is someone else—call her lila—who is immortal, who inhabits Lila for a > while and then moves on. The sleeping Lila he had just met tonight. But the > waking Lila, who never sleeps, had been watching him and he had been watching > her for a long time. " > > My interpretation of that, and it could be wrong, quality was reality itself, > as he writes about his MOQ. It appears he also believes that the "quality > that is our reality is an entity because he feels it had been watching him, > and he had been watching her for a long time. > > Immortal is an absolute, it is not subjective, it is a term that is well > defined, however as human beings we are like how Plato describes. We are > chained in a cave, with a bit of light entering, we are facing the walls and > we see only shadows. > > The entity Lila that Pirsig had been watching for a long time, was > perfection. Lila the eternal, is a system that is undergoing continuous > improvement, in all four areas of MOQ. Same as Jiro but only in one area; > sushi.. > > > > From: "Dan Glover" <daneglo...@gmail.com> > To: "moq discuss" <moq_disc...@moqtalk.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:55:10 AM > Subject: Re: [MD] The need for quality > > Wes, all, > > I believe when asked Robert Pirsig said how the name Lila came from > the distinct odor of the lilac bush and not from the Sanskrit word. I > am fairly certain the MOQ does not subscribe to any notion of absolute > reality (God, Creator) for that would connote an objective reality we > all agree upon, the antithesis of the notion of Quality. > > In ZMM, Pirsig writes: > > "Two weeks after the vacation was over, one evening after work, I > removed the carburetor to see what was wrong but still couldn’t find > anything. To clean off the grease before replacing it, I turned the > stopcock on the tank for a little gas. Nothing came out. The tank was > out of gas. I couldn’t believe it. I can still hardly believe it." > > So he did not tear the whole motorcycle apart. I wouldn't mind knowing > where you got the part about Chris saying so in front of an audience > if you could forward that. > > Now, so far as the character Lila goes, 'she' was Robert Pirsig. So > was Rigel. And Phaedrus. And the boat. The notion behind the > development of the characters in the novel Lila had to do with > explicating the four levels of the MOQ: the boat, inorganic, Lila, > biological, Rigel, social, Phaedrus, intellectual. > > That said, there is no divine absolute perfection in the MOQ. That > would presuppose the elimination of betterness. So to pursue such an > entity would appear to be only done in ignorance, which I am fairly > sure was not what Jiro or Pirsig were doing. > > Thanks. > -- http://www.danglover.com Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
