Hi Marsha, Not sure it was "hyper-rational" parental influence specifically, he was already dissatisfied with "science" and looking for something - but Pirsig does strongly emphasise that he gave up any Eastern interest after this earlier unsatisfactory experience. "Gave up" - his words.
It was only after the "seed crystal" in Bozeman, that the story started to fall into place, and the rest is history. Ian On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:48 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > When RMP fled India and the University of Benares, he was twenty-three > years-old. That was at the beginning of his journey, long before his > awakening and while he was still under the influence of a hyper-rational > reality gifted to him by his father. imho That he later helped establish a > Zen Center points to a reconsidering of Eastern philosophy. > > > > 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/md/archives.html 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/md/archives.html
