All: The other day I happened across what appears to be a contradiction in the MOQ as presented in Lila. In chapter 7 Pirsig says, "The world is primarily a moral order" and supports his contention by describing all the moral choices toward betterness that were made during the course of evolution. But then in chapter 11 he wrote: "He let himself get caught in the kind of 'picking and choosing' situation that Zen avoids and now he was stuck."
If Zen is the key to understanding reality and if reality is best understood as "picking and choosing" among values, a process that Zen avoids, a contradiction arises. I wonder if someone has an explanation for this apparent incongruity. Regards, Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
