{"id":71,"date":"2018-08-14T16:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/?p=71"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:37:23","slug":"notes-from-precept-tuesday-4-12-16-zen-readings-chapters-20-21-22-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/14\/notes-from-precept-tuesday-4-12-16-zen-readings-chapters-20-21-22-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Precept, Tuesday 4\/12\/16- Zen Readings (Chapters 20, 21, 22, 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u>Over-arching theme for these chapters:\u00a0<\/u>narrator has found that quality is very important, at the top of the hierarchy of thought. Trying to reconcile quality with other areas of thought (art, science, religion).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u>Chapter 20<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 Motorcycle reference- the romantic view of motorcycles is that your motorcycle is working now, the classical view of motorcycles is maintaining your motorcycle to make sure it keeps working in the future. I.e. checking the oil to make sure you have enough oil, you might lose oil by leaking (English vehicles like ours leak oil). Oil might also vaporize in high temperatures, maybe because you have bad rings (you will see blue exhaust).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 The first chart: romantic versus classical quality teaching, discrepancy between what Phaedrus taught and what he should have taught.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 The second chart: moves into romantic (pre-intellectual) and classical (intellectual divided into objective, subjective) reality. Difference between first chart and second chart- quality becomes the top of the hierarchy in the second chart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 The Tao: quality is synonymous with God, replaces word \u201ctao\u201d with quality, and it helps him make sense of quality. Quality is the origin of all Eastern and Western religion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 Purpose of chapter: quality as the parent of mind and matter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u>Chapter 21<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 Author wants to connect the ideas of art, science, religion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u>Chapter 22<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 Talking about the harmonious conception of the universe in science and in facts<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 Generalize\/simplify things to where you can make predictions<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 Discussion of geometry: Euclid and parallel lines which never cross, Cartesian coordinates are an idealization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 The curvature of space time: think of laser beams in straight lines, when it travels near a massive object, laser will bend around it (general relativity= no difference between gravity and acceleration, aka principle of equivalence).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 The point is that Euclidian geometry is not what astronomers use, there are curvatures and not strange lines. Scientists cherry-pick their facts; they not the truth, but they are a means to comprehend the world, and sometimes they are wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 Romanic quality: a pre-intellectual disposition to certain facts which are seen as more \u201cinteresting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 Quality is still very important to the sciences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u>Chapter 23<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o \u00a0\u00a0 Dream sequence: narrator in a sarcophagus, can\u2019t talk to Chris. This is the point at which we learn, concretely, that Phaedrus was \u201ckilled\u201d by shock therapy, and what is left of Phaedrus is the narrator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><u>Lab from Tuesday, 4\/12\/16<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wheels: put the ball bearing in and then took them out and then put them back in (gumption trap).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fasteners: re-assemble and re-install Japanese carburetor on the yellow bike; need to test it out.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Electrical: got the lamp working, hooked up generator to battery with a larger clip; need to work on the distributor.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Engine (top): re-assemble the engine head, attach piston, put on cylinder, and adjust valves (used the racing cam, they need to use the stock cam), marks were not lined up on the timing gear; need to take apart and fix it.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Engine (bottom): working on the case, plug up the engine, putting fasteners back in; need to get John to make sure it\u2019s tight enough.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frame: attach the back fender to the frame with the clip assembly and backing plate, cleaned chain adjuster to get ready for the back wheel.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fork: putting the fork together, one bush would not fit in the tube (bushel), had to get Al to help trim it down to get it fixed; need to pull it out and fix the bush, then get the forks together.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clutch: working on transmission, clutch is ready to go on as soon as the transmission is finished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over-arching theme for these chapters:\u00a0narrator has found that quality is very important, at the top of the hierarchy of thought. Trying to reconcile quality with other areas of thought (art, science, religion). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Chapter 20 o \u00a0\u00a0 Motorcycle reference- the romantic view of motorcycles is that your motorcycle is working now, the classical view of motorcycles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/14\/notes-from-precept-tuesday-4-12-16-zen-readings-chapters-20-21-22-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Notes from Precept, Tuesday 4\/12\/16- Zen Readings (Chapters 20, 21, 22, 23)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}