Squonk
Funny you should ask:
> In this sense, ZMM is a search for an Ox and Lila is a return to the market
> place?
because I had just finished rereading that section of the Guidebook to
ZaMM in an effort to resolve some issues with Bo.
My take would be close to yours in that ZaMM would represent the first
nine pictures with "Returning to the Source" analogous with the return
of Phaedrus at the end of Zen. Lila, I agree, is wholly about "Returning
to the Marketplace with Helping Hands" trying to help those ask for help
clarifying the philosophical elements of Zen.
When you say,
> Therefore you can only say Lila makes more sense if you accept its static
> sturcture. ZMM makes more sense if you wish to avoid structures.
my thinking is that both Zen Budhism and Pirsig's books suggest that one
cannot "avoid" the suffering of static patterns or structures, one must
live through and understand them prior to being able to transcend them.
Wilber's work suggests this is a common trait of all perennials
philosophies. Rarely does an individual make the journey from 1 to 10
without passing through 2,3,4,5,6,7,8, & 9 much as we all would like to
make such a jump.
3WD
PS: I reread an answer by Pirsig to an interview question where he
suggests we "back into the future" with the past arrayed in front of us
and it prompted a very early disussion where I had made this point about
DQ. If you redid the schematic this way it helps with that take:
Future
____^____relative direction of movement
DQ Present
v ----- direction of point of view
/ | | \
P B S I
Past
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