34 : Dynamic Quality
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If you find yourself having a mental orgasm when you read today’s post, you’re doing it right.
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33 : Natural Mystic
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This anecdote about a Zuni Indian turns out to be a real lightbulb moment for comprehending the Metaphysics of Quality. Continued from previous post.
Read More32 : The First Division
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In any hierarchy of metaphysical classification the most important division is the first one, for this division dominates everything beneath it. If this first division is bad there is no way you can ever build a really good system of classification around it.
Read More23 : What is Metaphysics?
/These next few selections are from Robert Pirsig’s follow up to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance called Lila that came about about 15 years later. It took me a while to read this second book but when I did, I wish I’d read it earlier. We’re still laying down the foundation for our pyramid of philosophy, and these are some crucial limestone blocks. Into the Mystics we go.
Read MoreFour : The High Country of the Mind
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We’re going to make a summit attempt right here in the beginning so we can get a lay of the land and have a better sense of what reality looks like from a vantage point. These next couple posts also serve as a crash course in the history of western philosophy. We’ll start abstract and then get concrete, as best we can. This is the relationship between the High Country of the Mind and material reality that we’re starting to get used to.
Read MoreTwo : Chautauqua
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“What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. Now that we do have some time, and know it, I would like to use the time to talk in some depth about things that seem important.”
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