Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance This book in my view is an enjoyable read but annoyingly without footnotes/ references which makes philosophical analysis so much harder. I saw shades of Melville's Moby Dick, Heidegger’s Being and Time and postmodernism. The whole book on my view might be regarded as a response to the Koan albeit with some modifications: And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Do we ask anyone to tell us these things? Noting Koans are not necessarily meant to be solved as they cann be can be parodoxical statments that focus the mind in a non rational intutive mediative mode. They can provide one with the answer, over time, but the rtionale is to beak free from mundane anlytics and expernce enligtenment in the Zen Buddhist tradition. What I liked and my thoughts on his Odyssey. Possibly a candidate to become an enduring classic and embracing ethical values as is appropriate to our technological age. As he sees lacking a dynamic societa