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# Re: Quality vs. Quantity

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Quality vs. Quantity
- From: Newbieonekenhobby <newbieonekenhobby@...>
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 23:46:06 -0800 (PST)
- In-reply-to: <004601c3a70b$6c28fc10$10a17fd8@ownerbqacdlzy6>

    Dear Rawn,

    >> I suggest that you meditate upon the concept of
    defining a quality and its quantity.<<

    Yes :-) I intended to do so anyway :-)

    >>For example, 'red' is a *quality* of light. If it's
    a very pale red, then the *quantity* of red could be
    described as "low" or "small". <<

    I see. There is no difference, in fact, with the
    popular use : quality is an attribute of the thing
    described.
    It's just that the two terms were sometimes used for
    things which were not supposed to have either quantity
    or quality.

    >> In my earlier remarks about the difference between
    the eternal and the temporal, I spoke of *now* as a
    quality which manifests as different quantities. By
    "*now*", I mean the quality of immediacy of
    experience, sensation and awareness. Here in the
    temporal realm, that immediacy of experience is
    infinitely finite -- it has an infinitely finite
    duration -- and can thus be described as having a very
    (infinitely) small quantity. In the eternal realm
    however, that immediacy of experience is infinitely
    infinite -- it encompasses an infinite duration within
    itself -- and can thus be described as having an
    infinite quantity. In both cases, the *quality* is
    exactly the same, but the *quantity* of that quality
    differs.<<

    By *eternal realm*, do you mean the mental plane and
    above (not subject to space and time) ?. If yes, I
    believe I understand :-) I met that concept a few
    times in deep meditations some years ago. In those
    meditations, "length of time" and "notion of sequence"
    (+ attributes of the thing described I believe) were
    depicted by *spatial* dimensions.
    Funny how things change depending on the axis we add
    to the paradigm.

    Many thanks.
    NB

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