Summary Of Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance By Robert M Pirsig

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Total Pages : 17 pages
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Download or read book Summary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig written by QuickRead and published by QuickRead.com. This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Inquiry Into Values. You may be asking yourself, “What do Zen and motorcycle maintenance have in common?” Well, you’d be surprised! While Zen typically deals with meditative and spiritual practices, motorcycle maintenance deals with nuts, bolts, and greasy parts. However, if you want to live a balanced life, you’ll need to embrace both. Motorcycle maintenance describes those who are classically minded, those who enjoy science and look at the world more rationally. On the other hand, Zen describes those who think romantically, those who enjoy the arts and experience the world through emotions. They see the world as a whole while ignoring the details. You may find that you already identify yourself as one or the other, right? According to Pirsig, however, balance and quality come from balancing the two mindsets. In fact, many problems and conflicts arise when classically minded people can’t understand the romantic mode of thought and vice versa. So how can we combine the two and learn from one another? Well, you can begin by following Pirsig on a motorcycle as he tells the story of how a single road trip led to enlightenment. As you read, you’ll learn why romantics avoid fixing things, you’ll become introduced to Phaedrus and his search for Quality, and how Quality can lead to a balanced, harmonious life. Do you want more free book summaries like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. DISCLAIMER: This book summary is meant as a preview and not a replacement for the original work. If you like this summary please consider purchasing the original book to get the full experience as the original author intended it to be. If you are the original author of any book on QuickRead and want us to remove it, please contact us at [email protected].

Author : Robert Pirsig
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307764214
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lila written by Robert Pirsig and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.

Author : Mark Richardson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373150
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen and Now written by Mark Richardson and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Zen and Now is the story of a story that will appeal to the 5 million readers of the original and serve as an initiation to a whole new generation. Since its original publication in 1968, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values has touched whole generations of readers with its serious attempt to define “quality” in a world that seems indifferent to the responsibilities that quality brings. Mark Richardson expands that journey with an investigation of his own – to find the enigmatic author of Zen and the Art, ask him a few questions, and place his classic book in context. The result manages to be a biography of Pirsig himself – in the discovery of an unknown life of madness, murder and eventual resolution – and a splendid meditation on creativity and problem-solving, sanity and insanity.

Author : Ron Di Santo
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688060692
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance written by Ron Di Santo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1990-11-19 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was first published in 1974, it caused a literary sensation. An entire generation was profoundly affected by the story of the narrator, his son, Chris, and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California. A combination of philosophical speculation and psychological tension, the book is a complex story of relationships, values, madness, and, eventually, enlightenment. Ron Di Santo and Tom Steele have spent years investigating the background and underlying symbolism of Pirsig’s work. Together, and with the approval of Robert Pirsig, they have written a fascinating reference/companion to the original. Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance serves as a metaphorical backpack of supplies for the reader’s journey through the original work. With the background material, insights, and perspectives the authors provide, Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is destined to become required reading for new fans of the book as well as those who have returned to it over the years.

Author : Robert M. Pirsig
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006308466X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Quality written by Robert M. Pirsig and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: “Quality” “The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment." —Robert M. Pirsig, 1962 More than a decade before the release of the book that would make him famous, Robert M. Pirsig had already caught hold of the central theme that would animate Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: “Quality,” a concept loosely likened to “excellence,” “rightness,” or “fitness” that Pirsig saw as kindred to the Buddhist ideas of “dharma” or the “Tao.” As he later wrote in Zen, “Quality is the Buddha.” Though he was revered by fans who considered him a guru, the famously private Pirsig published only two books and consented to few interviews and almost no public appearances in later decades. Yet he wrote and thought almost continually, refining his “Metaphysics of Quality” until his death in 2017. Now, for the first time, readers will be granted access to five decades of Pirsig’s personal writings in this posthumous collection that illuminates the evolution of his thinking to an unprecedented degree. Skillfully edited and introduced by Wendy K. Pirsig, Robert’s wife of four decades, the collection includes previously unpublished texts, speeches, letters, interviews, and private notes, as well as key excerpts from Zen and the Art of the Motorcycle Maintenance and his second book, Lila. Since its publication in 1974, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has established itself as a modern classic of popular philosophy; selling millions of copies and inspiring a generation, while serving as a perennial touchstone for the generations that follow. On Quality is a remarkable contribution to our understanding of one of the most influential thinkers and writers of our time.

Author : D. Granger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137122528
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living written by D. Granger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the writings of philosopher and educator, John Dewey, in order to develop an expansive vision of aesthetic education and everyday poetics of living. Robert Pirsig's best-selling book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , provides concrete exemplifications of this compelling yet unconventional vision.

Author : Eugen Herrigel
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780140190748
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen in the Art of Archery written by Eugen Herrigel and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 1985 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account. This book is the result of the author's six year quest to learn archery in the hands of Japanese Zen masters. It is an honest account of one man's journey to complete abandonment of 'the self' and the Western principles that we use to define ourselves. Professor Herrigel imparts knowledge from his experiences and guides the reader through physical and spiritual lessons in a clear and insightful way. Mastering archery is not the key to achieving Zen, and this is not a practical guide to archery. It is more a guide to Zen principles and learning and perfect for practitioners and non-practitioners alike.

Author : Elspeth Beard
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 178243805X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lone Rider written by Elspeth Beard and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three, Elspeth Beard left behind her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her motorbike. This is the story of a unique and life-changing adventure.

Author : Emily Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019883540X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Travel written by Emily Thomas and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we think more deeply about our travels? This was the question that inspired Emily Thomas' journey into the philosophy of travel. Part philosophical ramble, part travelogue, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery, when philosophers first started taking travel seriously. It meanders forward to consider Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness. On our travels with Thomas, we discover the dark side of maps, how the philosophy of space fuelled mountain tourism, and why you should wash underwear in woodland cabins... We also confront profound issues, such as the ethics of 'doom tourism' (travel to 'doomed' glaciers and coral reefs), and the effect of space travel on human significance in a leviathan universe. The first ever exploration of the places where history and philosophy meet, this book will reshape your understanding of travel.

Author : Alexander Cooper
Publisher : BookSummaryGr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance written by Alexander Cooper and published by BookSummaryGr. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was published in 1974. Told through the frame of a long motorcycle trip across America, the book explores life and how to best live it. The world of ideas takes center stage, providing both the conflict and resolution for living such a balanced approach to life. Perspectives from Eastern and Western philosophy and religion are referenced, highlighted, and explored, and through this exploration, the narrator addresses the pivotal question of how to pursue technology in a way that enriches human life as opposed to degrading it. Told through first person narrative, the book parallels the motorcycle trip and all of its accompanying trials and tribulations with the ideas, trials, and tribulations of the narrator’s own past life, ideas which come into contact with the present. In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the two protagonists are actually one person. The narrator is a lightly fictionalized version of the author, Robert Pirsig, who is taking a motorcycle trip with his son and another couple. The narrator speaks in the first person and uses the present tense. Phaedrus is the name of the narrator's alter ego. His story is told in the third person and the past tense. (In some editions of the book, the Phaedrus sections use a different font from the narrator's.) As the narrator describes him, Phaedrus is the person he used to be before suffering a mental breakdown in mid-career. By the book's end, the two characters begin to merge into a single individual. The motorcycle trip starts in Minneapolis, Minnesota and concludes near San Francisco, CA. The narrator and his son, Chris, are accompanied by a couple, the Sutherlands. As a contrast to the narrator, John and Sylvia Sutherland represent people who are uncomfortable with technology. They feel oppressed by it and use motorcycle trips to escape. At the same time, however, they are dependent on technology. This conflict hints at a larger conflict in society and life. The narrator aims to explore this conflict with technology and get to its root. The group travels together to Bozeman, Montana, which is an important location related to the narrator's teaching career and unusual past. At this point in the book, the Sutherlands return home, and the narrator and his son continue the trip after undertaking a hiking expedition in the mountains outside Bozeman. The hiking trip includes significant explorations of the inner world of spiritual development and of the narrator's difficult relationship with his son, thus fleshing out the narrator’s past ideas and helping incorporate them into his present. Throughout his travels, the narrator weaves together observations about life, diving into the struggles and backstory of a shadowy character called Phaedrus. These are, of course, mixed with the day-to-day details of the trip, showing a resonance between the two “worlds” being presented as ideas and thoughts build upon one another. Phaedrus is introduced with reluctance, and there is a mystery surrounding his relationship to the narrator. As the book unfolds, however, this mystery is resolved, and readers learn that Phaedrus is the name that the narrator has given to himself to represent his life before his nervous breakdown and shock therapy. This therapy resulted in a new personality. Here is a Preview of What You Will Get: ⁃ A Full Book Summary ⁃ An Analysis ⁃ Fun quizzes ⁃ Quiz Answers ⁃ Etc Get a copy of this summary and learn about the book.