[FRIAM] "ZAMM"

Thu Aug 19 10:38:54 EDT 2021

All or any, 

Already, I am struck by the range of “lessons” we saw in that book. 

Nicholas 

Nick Thompson

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021 8:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "ZAMM"

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.' "

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On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:57 PM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com> > wrote:

When will you be back here?

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140 Calle Ojo Feliz, 
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:17 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com <mailto: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

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> > On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 11:03 PM
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David can answer for himself.  I think you want to lead a seminar.

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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 <mailto: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

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> > On Behalf Of Gary Schiltz
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 10:53 PM
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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 <mailto: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 <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> 

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

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