"While I am thinking about it there is a very good book on Buddhism recently
out called 'Buddhism, Plain and Simple', by Steve Hagen and published by Tuttle
Publishing. I recommend you get it because it shows the similarities, between
the MOQ and Zen Buddhism more clearly than any other I have seen."
Pirsig to McWatt, May 6th 1998.
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"We can't comprehend Reality with our intellects. We can't pull it into a
static view of some thing. All our explanations are necessarily provisional.
They're just rigid frames of what is actually motion and fluidity. In other
words, if you think of how Reality is, you can be sure that's how it isn't.
Reality simply cannot be put into conceptual form --- not even through analogy,
for there's nothing like it. Reality simply doesn't fit into concepts at all.
(Hagen, Steve, ‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, p.71)
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RMP:
... Remember that the central reality of the MOQ is not an object or a subject
or anything else. It is understood by direct experience only and not by
reasoning of any kind...
DG:
Direct experience does not mean direct experience per se but rather experience
directly perceived. It may just be a matter of semantics but I have always
argued there is no such thing as direct experience. Now I sense I have been
looking at the question backwards, so to speak.
RMP:
Yes
(LILA's CHILD)
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