I’m a hopeless romantic‚ if I have to say the least about me. Robert M. Pirsig‚ in his Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‚ classifies people into two types: romantics and classics. I’m the romantic. In the bluntest of terms‚ romantics are creative thinkers and classics are logical thinkers. Of course both types would have interchangeable qualities‚ but on a macro level‚ romantics dream up while classics drill down. Now that I’ve established a basic‚ arguable nonetheless‚ definition of the
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cleaning. Between rounds‚ I have free time—then I read or write. One night last winter at 2:30 in the morning‚ I was fighting sleep. I stared at the wall clock. The second hand clicked forward like slow drips from a faucet. I was reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. My eyes kept losing focus. The book lay open in front of me—Pirsig on a motorcycle trip. Troubled thoughts bubbled.
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in high school and was recruited to North Dakota University to play basketball after graduation. While attending the college‚ Phil helped his team win third-and fourth-place finishes in the NCAA Division II championships. Jackson was known as the “Zen Master” to the game of basketball. In 1967‚ Phil Jackson was drafted
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Natalia Cooper Mrs. McGreevy Period 5 7 January 2014 TOK Winter Break Assignments Chapter 10: To me what is appealing about science is that it provides insight and a chance of understanding the world in which I live – however the detail in which Phaedrus studies each hypothesis and how his curiosity and list of hypotheses to test grows is what I do not like about science. I am not a rather curious or imaginative person and I see no purpose in studying the world in such depth…some of the complicated
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Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a 17-day motorcycle journey across the United States done by the author (though he is not identified in the book) and his son Chris‚ joined for nine days by John and Sylvia Sutherland‚ a befriended couple. During this novel‚ I also went on a journey filled with a countless number of insightful‚ philosophical discussions the author stirs up. This story makes you think and ponder questions just as the main character is doing. The story
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I used to think that I knew what quality was. But after reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‚ I realized I hadn’t even scratched the surface as to what quality really is. As Pirsig has said‚ quality cannot even be defined since it precedes every intellectual construction of it. Although this may be true‚ I will attempt to do so for the sake of this paper‚ both in terms of romantic and classical viewpoints. In reading my paper‚ I hope people can better understand where they stand on the
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are key principles in Zen Buddhism. These themes include: the importance of balance‚ the disapproval of logical thinking‚ and enlightenment. Salinger was questioning his religious views after the war. He turned to Zen Buddhism as his new perspective on life. You can tell his stories were influenced by his religion because most of the common themes throughout Nine Stories‚ a short story cycle‚ represent Zen ways of thinking. If a reader did not have a basic understanding of Zen Buddhism they may have
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Role Zen Buddhism plays in shaping the art of Japan Japan was not a Buddhist place until it was imported from China through the Korean peninsula in the 6th century. Monks and lay Buddhist were instrumental in the practice of the new religion from mainland Asia to the Island of Japan. However‚ this new found religion had different practices and paths in the Japanese culture. Zen Buddhism‚ even though‚ had Chinese origin‚ had a new development in Japan in which there was a belief that enlightenment
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Zen and the Art of Organizational Maintenance Ronald E. Purser San Francisco State University rpurser@sfsu.edu ABSTRACT This paper draws from the “Zen arts” as a means for reimagining management as a mindful practice known as “organizational maintenance.” Zen Buddhism has had a profound influence on Japanese arts— such as calligraphy‚ sumi-e drawing‚ the tea ceremony‚ landscape garden design‚ archery‚ and Haiku poetry. The Zen aesthetic‚ often referred to as wabi sabi‚ and its associated notions
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THE RING AND THE GRUDGE: SUBVERSION OF CULTURE THROUGH EMPTINESS AND LONELINESS THE Onryō’S QUEST TO DESTROY THE BOURGEOISIE MINDSET Connor B. Malander Department of History History 505 December 8‚ 2010 THE RING AND THE GRUDGE: SUBVERSION OF CULTURE THROUGH EMPTINESS AND LONELINESS THE Onryō’S QUEST TO DESTROY THE BOURGEOISIE Hollywood; thoughts of the movie star and the next big feature film come to mind at the mention of it‚ but rarely does it evoke feelings of fear. The horror
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