“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
― Robert M. Pirsig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig

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Why have I never happened on this website before?

https://motorcyclestudies.org/

In particular:

CHROME AND BLACK AND DUSTY: ROBERT PIRSIG’S MOTORCYCLE HERITAGE
PAUL F. JOHNSTON

A long biographical piece with many photos.

https://motorcyclestudies.org/volume-17-2021/chrome-and-black-and-dusty-robert-pirsigs-motorcycle-heritage-paul-f-johnston/

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50 years since the publication of ZATAMM next year.

"In this post, I want to contextualize the importance of the discussion, by indicating why a richer understanding of Value and values matters for civil society and democracy. I also take the opportunity to note some curious parallels between Iain’s work and Robert Pirsig’s more generally, which is particularly apparent on the matter of perceiving value."

https://jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/values-are-what-command-our-allegiance?

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Quality – Pirsig in Person

"Wendy, wife of the late Robert Pirsig, shared an archive gem this weekend on his son Ted’s YouTube channel. An hour-long video of Bob’s talk to a Minneapolis College of Art audience about his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on 20th May 1974, then just a month or so after its publication and becoming a best seller."

http://www.psybertron.org/archives/16727

Thanks to Ian Glendinning
@psybertron for publishing the Youtube link

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"According to the Metaphysics of Quality these “human rights” have not just a sentimental basis, but a rational, metaphysical basis. They are essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a lower level of life.
They are for real."

Robert M Pirsig Lila 1992

"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?"

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

https://eachother.org.uk/11-times-the-european-court-of-human-rights-changed-our-lives-in-the-uk/

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Playing with ChatGPT

Q. Describe Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.

A. Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality, as presented in his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", is a philosophical concept that posits that quality is the fundamental reality of the universe. According to Pirsig, quality is not a property of objects, but rather a process of creation or "bringing-into-being".

Not a bad effort.

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“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”

― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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The section on 'Gumptionology' in

#ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance

should be required reading for any aspiring motorcycle mechanic.

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“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
― Robert M. Pirsig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig

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“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”

"Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not."

Robert M Pirsig

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"Reality isn't in the mind or in the external world, It's in the values that create both."

Robert M Pirsig

Letter, October 1998

From my wife's birthday present to me:

On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings

Robert M. Pirsig
Wendy K. Pirsig

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55742926-on-quality

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Ever more relevant in these days of social media. Went to see my sister for the first time in three years yesterday.
Tea and family history.

“We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. ”
― Robert M. Pirsig,

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Oh yes!
Also Lila.
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"-just stare at the machine. There’s nothing wrong with that. Just live with it for a while. Watch it the way you watch a line when fishing and before long, as sure as you live, you’ll get a little nibble, a little fact asking in a timid, humble way if you’re interested in it. That’s the way the world keeps on
happening. Be interested in it."

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Robert M. Pirsig

“In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance
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