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Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance
By, Robert M. Pirsig
Values
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance- An Inquiry into Values
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is
the self-told story of a middle-aged man and his son, Chris, who go on a
motorcycling trip accompanied by an adult
couple.
It incorporates a parallel presentation of trip details
and an ongoing retrospective concerning dramatic events from the Narrator's past, creating
rich symbolism and including numerous
analogies reinforcing the overall theme of coming to
terms with the mysteries of why we exist and how best
to live.
The Jist
Inspirational in a no frills way Abstract
Philosophical Metaphorical
About Motorcycle
Maintenance
About Zen
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Do you find yourself at the Crossroads of life?
Then Ride yourself through this book!
ZAMM
Zen ‘Medication’ in Japanese
The Path to Truth
Rejects
Worship of Deities
Reading of Scriptures
Performance of Rituals
Practitioners
Wait for Flashes of Intuitive Knowledge
When the Self is Quiet and Free of
Desire and Distraction
Achieved
We think of quality as a measure of a product or a
person.
We feel the right to make Judgments about it because it is clear when something is of
quality or is not.
The Narrator
Suddenly has a dream while explaining about
Quality!
RobertPirsig /Pheadrus
Crew of Young People
Fixing
Butcher it!
they
RobertPirsig /Pheadrus
Learns a Lesson
The Narrator
Attitude Technological Problem
Not simply rational knowledge of how a thing works
and
Quality
Rational Way Happens
Care Does not Care ~
That can enrich your
life
A machine
That can Explode ~
I’m Angry
You will not Succeed in Tuning the Machine or Finding the
Problem!
Sense of Mind
&
You come to see that a machine is just the Physical Expression of a set
of Ideas.
‘Objects’ begin to come Alive! When?
Thus, Quality is appreciated not as a thing, but as the
That Drives
the
Universe Force
RobertPirsig /Pheadrus
The Narrator Notes
"Obviously some things are better than others.”
"Obviously some things are better than others.” But what’s the ‘Better-ness’ ?
What we call Quality, or 'better-ness', is the same as the Eastern concept of
'Tao‘.
The universal power or essence which can never be identified as such, but whose presence or absence makes
something good.
RobertPirsig /Pheadrus
The Narrator adds
In our world, quality had become just an idle
attribute!
When in fact, it was "the parent, the source of all subjects and objects."
~ ~
An Optional Extra?
The Idea of Squareness
Square!
They leave behind a slower America where people wave and have time to chat, and start
to see ego-driven people driving along
with grim expressions.
This makes people feel that important things are
happening somewhere else.
Gumption
-Zest for Life!
The Gumption-Filling Process See Hear
Feel
Universe
RobertPirsig /Pheadrus
The Narrator adds
Technology = Art
Notes: The ugliness of modern technology stems from the uncaring attitude of
the producers . The importance of self-culture for
establishing any kind of Quality in life.
Value Free Science is an Evil that has to go.
Who is this Phaedrus?
Pirsig
Pirsig
The name that
the narrator
gives to his
former
personality!
Phaedrus was a character
in one of the Dialogues of Plato
(the great fourth-century B.C.
Greek philosopher). In the
dialogue called “Phaedrus,”
the title character relentlessly
questions the philosopher
Socrates on the nature of
rhetoric, madness, love, and
truth—the same issues the
narrator of Motorcycle
Maintenance is tackling.
Phaedrus also means “wolf ” in Greek,
and the narrator often compares
Phaedrus’s existence to that of a wolf:
isolated, aggressive, persistent.
Final Thoughts...
Society
Hippies
Abstract Art
Beat Novels
Final Thoughts...
Then maybe it could save itself from the dullness of its mental structures!
Society
ZAMM
Thanking You,
Soumya Mukherjee
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward
from there.”
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