maples‚ and the Sage Hill Kroger‚ a tiny home sets itself apart from all the other American cottages with a big sign: “Atlanta Soto Zen Center.” What an ancient eastern tradition is doing in the sleepy town of Druid Hills is beyond me—but once I stepped inside‚ location seemed remarkably insignificant. The Atlanta Soto Zen Center prides itself on its tiny temple that offers Zen Buddhism instruction to all residents of the metro-Atlanta area‚ and seizes the opportunity of the vast wilderness that is available
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I’m a hopeless romantic‚ if I have to say the least about me. Robert M. Pirsig‚ in his Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‚ classifies people into two types: romantics and classics. I’m the romantic. In the bluntest of terms‚ romantics are creative thinkers and classics are logical thinkers. Of course both types would have interchangeable qualities‚ but on a macro level‚ romantics dream up while classics drill down. Now that I’ve established a basic‚ arguable nonetheless‚ definition of the
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Comparison of Christianity and Taoism through the concept of Zen By Joe Sowatzke For Dr. B. David Burke HUM 202.100 Philosophy of Religion Elgin Community College December 8‚ 2011 Within our westernized culture‚ it is easy to think that a culture other than ours is completely different‚ especially when it comes to religion. However‚ there can be key similarities between two presumably different religions. For example Judaism and Islam have many key similarities seeing is
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cleaning. Between rounds‚ I have free time—then I read or write. One night last winter at 2:30 in the morning‚ I was fighting sleep. I stared at the wall clock. The second hand clicked forward like slow drips from a faucet. I was reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. My eyes kept losing focus. The book lay open in front of me—Pirsig on a motorcycle trip. Troubled thoughts bubbled.
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in high school and was recruited to North Dakota University to play basketball after graduation. While attending the college‚ Phil helped his team win third-and fourth-place finishes in the NCAA Division II championships. Jackson was known as the “Zen Master” to the game of basketball. In 1967‚ Phil Jackson was drafted
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Natalia Cooper Mrs. McGreevy Period 5 7 January 2014 TOK Winter Break Assignments Chapter 10: To me what is appealing about science is that it provides insight and a chance of understanding the world in which I live – however the detail in which Phaedrus studies each hypothesis and how his curiosity and list of hypotheses to test grows is what I do not like about science. I am not a rather curious or imaginative person and I see no purpose in studying the world in such depth…some of the complicated
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I used to think that I knew what quality was. But after reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‚ I realized I hadn’t even scratched the surface as to what quality really is. As Pirsig has said‚ quality cannot even be defined since it precedes every intellectual construction of it. Although this may be true‚ I will attempt to do so for the sake of this paper‚ both in terms of romantic and classical viewpoints. In reading my paper‚ I hope people can better understand where they stand on the
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are key principles in Zen Buddhism. These themes include: the importance of balance‚ the disapproval of logical thinking‚ and enlightenment. Salinger was questioning his religious views after the war. He turned to Zen Buddhism as his new perspective on life. You can tell his stories were influenced by his religion because most of the common themes throughout Nine Stories‚ a short story cycle‚ represent Zen ways of thinking. If a reader did not have a basic understanding of Zen Buddhism they may have
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part voyage of self-discovery could‚ on the face of it be said to have been conceived and executed pretty much along the lines of Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 1 However there are a number of subtle differences in style and approach‚ which I believe distances this book somewhat from Mr. Pirsig’s seminal work. Whilst Zen catalogues one man’s personal odyssey both literally and philosophically‚ Miss Pierson’s journey not only encompasses those liberally sampled intellectual
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On The Catcher in the Rye : An American Koan Joseph Dewey America‚ it appears‚ is in the uneasy twilight of the Age of the Novel. Even the most ardent readers—and the most dedicated English teachers—acknowledge that. Given the sheer reach that visual tech- nologies have achieved in just fifty years—film‚ advertising‚ televi- sion‚ video games‚ and‚ supremely‚ the Internet—the act (and art) of reading the printed word has been gracelessly shuffled off to the mar- gins. Americans are now pixel-fed
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