Hmm. One time I had a dream where I was swept up and away by a group of spirits. They took me to meet Bob Pirsig. And he didn't look, in my dream, as he does in the pictures–either this one, or other images on the internet. But he was speaking with a blond woman when I arrived (a place with cubicles, where he was seated and talking with the woman). So he excused himself ( couldn't really hear what they were saying), and came over and just said, “Hi.” No conversation. That was the whole thing. Then he went back to continue his conversation with the blond woman. This was before the book, Lila was published. Since reading that book, I've always thought the woman was Lila, or his meditation of Lila.
After thinking about it more, perhaps the person I met (and the dream did include an actual introduction-briefly) was “Bob Pirsig” but also the meditation of his main character from himself–in relation to and with Lila.
There have been more copies of Pirsig’s classic printed than the Koran, albeit not as many as the Bible. The essence of the difference between them, however, being that both the Bible & the Koran and all others of the same genre lay down a code of interpretation of life which prescribes to other third party viewpoints & perspectives; whereas ZEN&AofMM describes the first person perspective of the experience of Pirsig’s own journey to find the truth.
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what a beautiful soul :)
Hmm. One time I had a dream where I was swept up and away by a group of spirits. They took me to meet Bob Pirsig. And he didn't look, in my dream, as he does in the pictures–either this one, or other images on the internet. But he was speaking with a blond woman when I arrived (a place with cubicles, where he was seated and talking with the woman). So he excused himself ( couldn't really hear what they were saying), and came over and just said, “Hi.” No conversation. That was the whole thing. Then he went back to continue his conversation with the blond woman. This was before the book, Lila was published. Since reading that book, I've always thought the woman was Lila, or his meditation of Lila.
After thinking about it more, perhaps the person I met (and the dream did include an actual introduction-briefly) was “Bob Pirsig” but also the meditation of his main character from himself–in relation to and with Lila.
ONLY ”Pirsig's“ PHAEDRUS would know !
Whether HOMO SAPIENS realises it or not the species is faced with a …
CRISIS in politics, a CRISIS in religion and a CRISIS in science …
embodied so succinctly, in fact, by Pirsig’s journey to address his own personal crisis, which he wrote about in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
There have been more copies of Pirsig’s classic printed than the Koran, albeit not as many as the Bible. The essence of the difference between them, however, being that both the Bible & the Koran and all others of the same genre lay down a code of interpretation of life which prescribes to other third party viewpoints & perspectives; whereas ZEN&AofMM describes the first person perspective of the experience of Pirsig’s own journey to find the truth.
A truth which acknowledges that nature is in control of man & NOT man in control of nature.