When I first showed my teenage son a diagram of my MoQ wimple model, his first response was, why is it important? How can you showing me this model improve my life? (or words to that effect).
Good questions and difficult to answer unless we use the MoQ wimple model as a model of awareness, and see that the answer is really so simple as to be of child-like understanding. By putting our whole attention into whatever it is we happen to be doing, we put quality into whatever we do. While that may sound simple and it really is, it goes against our seemingly natural tendencies to gravitate to others of our kind and mimic them, as well as repeating our own past comfortable behaviour patterns until they become canalized.
Once a canal or a chreode is formed, it's very difficult to break out of it...'in a rut' is a classic example of chreode formation. The Japanese version of Buddhism seems to operate by using this phenomena of chreode formation to its advantage, rather than trying to overcome it. It instills a rigorous set of behaviour patterns designed to allow quality to flow into the individual with as little 'thinking' involved as possible.
In the U.S. zen seems to have changed into something that suits the American way of life in a more fitting way than the rigorously observed customs in Japan, much as zen has changed as it has moved west across the Asian continent. But one thing hasn't changed about zen, and that is the fact that you cannot study it, you can only practice. And at the core of zen is the practice of zazen.
Now, why am I suddenly talking about zen in an MoQ wimple model description? Because, for me, zen is the way to actualize quality in my everyday life. Everything I do, I attempt to put my entire attention into it, and in doing so, find that it becomes easier over time to just eat, just work, just write, just sit, all chreode formations with quality in mind. By emptying my mind, using the practice of zazen at least one time every day, I open up pathways for new patterns to arise and for my attention to be aware of them.
Everything I have learned from years of practice resonates with the teachings of the MoQ. It took a while for me to see how, and now that I do I can attempt to share these insights with others. I might also add that the daily practice of zazen is a wonderful way to reduce stress, which is the single, most major contributor to ill health in the world today.