* Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974, paperpack, or hardback first edition ISBN 0-688-00230-7

Stephenson explores the GUI as a metaphor in terms of the increasing interposition of abstractions between humans and the actual workings of devices ( in a similar manner to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ) and explains the beauty hackers feel in good-quality tools.

Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).

In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he described the central character, thought to represent himself, as being far from a typical student ; he was interested in science as a goal in itself, rather than as a way to establish a career.

His difficult experiences as a student in a course taught by Richard McKeon were later described, thinly disguised, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and clinical depression as a result of an evaluation conducted by psychoanalysts, and was treated with ECT on numerous occasions, which he himself talks about in his autobiographical book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

In the years following the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance he has been solitary and reclusive.

In 1979, Pirsig's son Chris, who figured prominently in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, was stabbed to death during a mugging outside the San Francisco Zen Center.

Pirsig discusses this incident in an afterword to subsequent editions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing that he and his second wife, Kimball, decided not to abort the child she conceived in 1980, because he had come to believe that this unborn child was a continuation of the life pattern that Chris had occupied.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance develops Pirsig's interpretation of " Quality " and " the Good.

* Photographs from Pirsig's 1968 trip upon which Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is based

Manhattan, Next to Normal, Return to Oz, Private Practice, Ghost Whisperer, From Beyond, the novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Helen, Oz, Six Feet Under, House on Haunted Hill, Royal Pains, The Wolfman, Homeland, Wrong Turn 4, Constantine, Cold Case and Mad Men.

Highway 175 was mentioned as the next to last highway ridden in the classic book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.

* Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ( 1973 )

This popular view is likely the result of a single book Zen in the Art of Archery ( 1948 ) by the German author Eugen Herrigel.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( ZAMM ) is a 1974 philosophical novel, the first of Robert M. Pirsig's texts in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality.

The title is an apparent play on the title of the book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel.

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In contrast to this opinion, some of the Zen masters in Loori's book The Art of Just Sitting deride Yasutani's description, giving their own version as the right or correct way to do shikantaza.

Daruma: The Founder of Zen in Japanese Art and Popular Culture.

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ) is the second philosophical novel by Robert M. Pirsig, who is best known for his classic text, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

* Zen and the Art of Divebombing, or The Dark Side of the Tao by Kelley L. Ross, Ph. D.

The Thunderground Film production Zen and the Art of Yardsailing is a documentary film produced in 2004 that covered the aspects of find bargains as well as the cutthroat practices of professional resellers and the previously noted " early birds.

In the introduction to his translation which appeared in the Evergreen Review, Snyder wrote of Hanshan, " He and his sidekick Shih-te ( Jittoku in Japanese ) became great favorites with Zen painters of later days -- the scroll, the broom, the wild hair and laughter.

* Review of Zen at War by Fabio Rambelli, in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics

* Review of Zen at War by David Loy

* Review of Zen at War by Vladimir K, at the zensite. com

A closer look at modern Zen reveals many magical carryovers that are still part of popular Zen attitudes.

At the age of 16 he entered the monastery at Từ Hiếu Temple near Huế, Vietnam, where his primary teacher was Dhyana ( meditation Zen ) Master Thanh Quý Chân Thật.

The largest Zen group at this moment is the Kanzeon Sangha, led by Nico Tydeman under the supervision of the American Zen master Dennis Genpo Merzel, Roshi, a former student of Maezumi Roshi in Los Angeles.

Fonda has in the past practiced Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and more recently has engaged in meditation at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center.

* Zen at War

In 1217, two years after the death of contemporary Zen Buddhist Myōan Eisai, Dōgen went to study at Kennin-ji Temple ( 建仁寺 ), under Eisai's successor, Myōzen ( 明全 ).

Then, in 1225, he decided to visit a master named Rújìng ( 如淨 ; J. Nyōjo ), the thirteenth patriarch of the Cáodòng ( J. Sōtō ) lineage of Zen Buddhism, at Mount Tiāntóng ( 天童山 Tiāntóngshān ; J. Tendōzan ) in Níngbō.

From Chinese cultural influence, the Zen motif of the " gibbon grasping at the reflection of the moon in the water " became popular in Japanese art, as well, though gibbons have never occurred naturally in Japan.

" Such a penetrating -- and Zen -- mystical view, arrived at so long ago, will be hard to top ; in my own experiences with psychedelic drugs I have had precious tiny illumination compared with Erigena.

Haushofer may have been a short-term student of Gurdjieff, that he had studied Zen Buddhism, and that he had been initiated at the hands of Tibetan lamas, although these notions are debated.

Before taking one's seat, and after rising at the end of the period of zazen, Zen practitioners perform a gassho bow to their seat, and a second bow to fellow practitioners.

After hearing lectures by the Zen Buddhist scholar D. T. Suzuki at Columbia, she became interested in Asian thought, not as a religious discipline, but as a code of ethics, a practical how-to for getting through life.

Statistics published by the Sōtō school state that 80 percent of Sōtō laymen visit their temple only for reasons having to do with funerals and death, while only 17 percent visit for spiritual reasons and a mere 3 percent visit a Zen priest at a time of personal trouble or crisis.

Suzuki studied at Komazawa University, the Sōtō Zen university in Tokyo.

His father, Butsumon Sogaku Suzuki, was almost fifty at the time and was the head abbot of a small Soto Zen temple.

From 1925 to 1926 Suzuki did Zen training with Dojun Kato in Shizuoka at Kenko-in.

On April 10, 1930, at age 25, Suzuki graduated from Komazawa Daigakurin with a major in Zen and Buddhist philosophy, and a minor in English.

Upon graduation from Komazawa, So-on wanted Shunryu to continue his training at the well known Soto Zen temple Eihei-ji in Fukui Prefecture.

Eihei-ji is one of the largest Zen training facilities in Japan, and the abbot at this time was Gempo Kitano-roshi.

On May 23, 1959 Shunryu Suzuki arrived in San Francisco to attend to Soko-ji, at that time the sole Soto Zen temple in San Francisco.

The Zen Center flourished so that in 1966, at the behest and guidance of Suzuki, Zentatsu Richard Baker helped seal the purchase of Tassajara Hot Springs in Los Padres National Forest which they called Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

In the fall of 1969, they bought a building at 300 Page Street near San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood and turned it into a Zen temple.