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Robert M. Pirsig, Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ Dies at 88

By Paul Vitello — 2017

Robert M. Pirsig, whose “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” a dense and discursive novel of ideas, became an unlikely publishing phenomenon in the mid-1970s and a touchstone in the waning days of the counterculture, died on Monday at his home in South Berwick, Me. He was 88.

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An Introduction to Zen

The word “Zen” is tossed around so carelessly in the commercial world, the human potential world, the world of design, and in popular culture in general, that for someone new to it as an authentic spiritual tradition, it has become too vague to have much meaning.

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What is Zen Buddhism?

Zen is the Japanese name for a Buddhist tradition practiced by millions of people across the world. Historically, Zen practice originated in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and later came to in the West.

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At the core of the Zen Buddhist tradition is a formal practice called zazen, which is the name for Zen meditation or sitting Zen.

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Zen and the Beat Way

Well, in the same way, all sorts of things that we believe to be real--time, past and future, for instance--exist only conventionally. A person who lives for the future, who (like most of us) makes his happiness dependent upon what is coming in the future, is living within an illusion. - Alan Watts

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Alan Watts
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Every Day Is a Good Day

Today does not become yesterday, and Dōgen-zenji states that today does not become tomorrow. Each day is its own past and future and has its own absolute value.

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Shunryu Suzuki
2015
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From a Lecture by Suzuki Roshi

Buddha’s teaching put the emphasis on selflessness. Buddhism is not a special cultural heritage.

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Suzuki Lecture: May 5, 1970

We practice zazen because that is the only way to go beyond thinking mind—emotional activity.

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Shunryu Suzuki
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The Waterfall

When you can sit with your whole body and mind, and with the oneness of your mind and body under the control of the universal mind, you can easily attain this kind of right understanding. Your everyday life will be renewed without being attached to an old erroneous interpretation of life.

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Shunryu Suzuki
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Five Lessons on Life from Zen Buddhist Master Shunryu Suzuki

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki

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2020
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Things as It Is

Our effort in Zen is to observe everything as-it-is. Yet even though we say so, we are not necessarily observing everything as-it-is.

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Shunryu Suzuki
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