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.
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.