(June 23, 2011 at 10:59 am)Anymouse Wrote:(June 23, 2011 at 10:48 am)Nick_A Wrote: The trouble is that science cannot measure the quality of the moment since it is dualistic and measures in the domain between before and after. Appreciating the quality of the moment is the realm of consciousness which we lack as residents of Plato's cave. Many in thewse times have never even considered what the quality of the moment means.
"Quality of the moment?" I have never considered what this means, because when I do, my head hurts.
It's not even subjective, it's just non-sensical. Like "the flavour of blue" or the "taste of baroque music."
James.
I agree. You haven't thought and your head hurts. I'm concerned with those who are willing to think for the sake of understanding even at the risk of a headache. They have experienced the relative conscious quality of the moment in themselves. One moment they have a higher perspective analagous to that of the forest. At the next they are fighting amongst trees having lost a conscious perspective and lowered the quality of the moment.
A person seeking to sustain a higher perspective, a higher quality of the moment, wonders why they continually lose conscious self awareness, become caught up in negative emotions and experience dulled senses as well. You are not concerned with these things so you are better off just taking two excedrins and not concerning yourself with it.
