[FRIAM] "ZAMM"

Thu Aug 19 09:12:27 EDT 2021

It's available on Amazon as paperback, hardcover and ebook:
https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Anniversary-ebook/dp/B0063HC7EQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=zen+and+the+art+of+motorcycle+maintenance&qid=1629378375&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

I read the book eons ago and I remember very little details, just that I
enjoyed it very much. I'm looking forward to rereading it.

Pieter

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 14:52, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

> Searching "Zen and the art of" as a title in the Boston Public Library
> yields 101 results.  There are two ecopies of ZAMM with 18 holds queued,
> could take as much as 18 weeks to reach the head of the queue.
>
> Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery has this comment from a library
> patron:
>
> First I ever saw this zen classic was over at my uncle's house in
> Pacifica, California. He left a closet full of his books after he passed
> from exposure in the Santa Cruz Mountains. After John Lennon was
> assassinated (not long before Ronald Reagan--former governor of
> California---was to be inaugurated), I tried to recuperate partially there.
> The cover of the book looked nothing like the library's copy, but the real
> gen still waits within, for those with open minds. Can you clear that busy
> mind, with all its preoccupations and agendas, and simply concentrate on
> taking the bow string into your thumb and finger, and release the arrow, at
> the exact perfect time, but not using your conscious mind? "There followed
> weeks and months of fruitless practice. I could take my standard again and
> again from the way the Master shot, see with my own eyes the nature of the
> correct loose; but not a single one succeeded."//// Rest in Peace, George
> Simon; Rest in Peace, John Winston Ono Lennon." Hoyen of Gosozen (died
> 1140) says, 'Here is a man who, turning the emptiness of space into a sheet
> of paper, the waves of the ocean into an inkwell, and Mount Sumeru into a
> brush, writes these five characters: SO-SHI-SAI-RAI-I. To such, i spread my
> zagu and make my profound bow.' "
>
> -- rec --
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:57 PM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There's been some publicity lately about enticing young people away from
>> a tech or finance future--substituting, instead, the possibility of
>> becoming a skilled plumber or electrician, or better yet an ecological
>> farmer.  Those are the jobs we'll perhaps need in the near future as we
>> attempt to survive on a transformed planet.  Pirsig lives as a guide to our
>> fragile future.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 9:32 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> When will you be back here?
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Frank C. Wimberly
>>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>>
>>> 505 670-9918
>>> Santa Fe, NM
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:17 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> No.  Actually I hadn’t thought of that.  Too far east for those sorts
>>>> of thoughts, right now.  Let’s see what David supposes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> N
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nick Thompson
>>>>
>>>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2021 11:03 PM
>>>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>>>> friam at redfish.com>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] "ZAMM"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> David can answer for himself.  I think you want to lead a seminar.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Frank C. Wimberly
>>>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>>>
>>>> 505 670-9918
>>>> Santa Fe, NM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:01 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Gary,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It would be great to hear from somebody reading it for the first time.
>>>> I am, I think, the only person to have read *Go Set a Watchman *and *To
>>>> Kill a Mockingbird* in the order in which they were written, not the
>>>> order in which they were published.  I thought it gave me a unique
>>>> perspective.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nick Thompson
>>>>
>>>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Gary Schiltz
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2021 10:53 PM
>>>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>>>> friam at redfish.com>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] "ZAMM"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It’s one I’ve always intended to read, but somehow never got around to
>>>> it. I’d be interested, but need to read it soon.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 8:46 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Colleagues,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if Pirsig’s *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance *was a
>>>> thing for any of you, and if you would be interested in pursuing a thread
>>>> about it and, if so, if you would be willing to get it down off your shelf
>>>> and flip through it, looking for the parts you loved and the parts you
>>>> hated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> N
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nick Thompson
>>>>
>>>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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