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space lizard
21-10-2008, 02:43 PM
HI,

Sometimes synchronicity strikes and you have not choice but to act upon it. Last week I was in a bookstore with my girlfriend and she picked up a book called "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenence". She's never read it, but recommended it to me as a must read piece of literature that she's heard refferenced many times. A few days later I picked up another book that I've owned for quite some time and the Zen Motorcycle book was mentioned. A while later I was speaking online (soccer website) about david icke and the guy I was speaking with mentioned the book. Next day I shot into the bookstore and picked it up.

It's a fictional story with loads of wisdom and deeper meaning, it made a big splash when released in the 1970's. If David Icke has not read this book I would highly recommend someone get a copy to him.

Here follows an extract....

Page 287.

Romantic reality is the cutting edge of experience. Its the leading edge of the train of knowledge that keeps the whole train on the track. Traditional knowledge is only the collective memory of where that leading edge has been. At the leading edge there are no subjects, no objects, only the track of Quality ahead, and if you have no formal way of evaluating, no way of acknowledging this Quality, then the entire train has no way of knowing where to go. You don't have pure reason - you have pure confusion. The leading edge is where absolutely all the action is. The leading edge contains all the infinite possibilities of the future. It contains all the history of the past. Where else could they be contained?

The past cannot remember the past. The future cannot generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

hunger
21-10-2008, 02:48 PM
Lila is also great! by the same author Robert M Pirsig :)

phonicboom
23-10-2008, 11:10 AM
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenence".

of all the books i've never read that must be high on the list of ones i truly should, thanks for the reminder :)

hopefully syncronicity drops it by very soon.

montag
23-10-2008, 11:24 AM
I haven't read the book myself, but a friend was reading it and showed me this quote from it..

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."

:)

lizzy
26-10-2008, 07:24 AM
one of the best books i ever read....;).30yrs ago !!..but Pirsig departs from Eastern thinking by arguing that reason and logic are just as important in seeking understanding.

phonicboom
26-10-2008, 12:58 PM
some quotes from the book as a PDF (http://www.alexandre.leroux.net/quotes/motorcycle.pdf), nice.

disorder2k8
26-10-2008, 01:21 PM
I can get hold of this book, my friend has a copy and recommends it.

phonicboom
26-10-2008, 01:41 PM
I can get hold of this book, my friend has a copy and recommends it.

as a pdf? i'm still looking....

disorder2k8
26-10-2008, 01:42 PM
No original hardcopy (i think paperback) version, I doubt he would want to sell it though, sorry:o

krakhead
26-10-2008, 01:45 PM
as a pdf? i'm still looking....

http://www.scribd.com/doc/5757211/Zen-and-the-Art-of-Motorcycle-Maintenance-By-Robert-M-Pirsig

devanshoom
29-10-2008, 07:11 PM
i tried reading that motorbike book when i was about 25 but it just did my head in....i think i was too young, and probably too dumb.

phonicboom
29-10-2008, 09:07 PM
http://www.scribd.com/doc/5757211/Zen-and-the-Art-of-Motorcycle-Maintenance-By-Robert-M-Pirsig

ah ha scribd, cheers.