From: john williams (ducati900@bigpond.com)
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 22:50:03 GMT
Hi Mari,
Mari: i'm going to re-read the "C/R" part of ZMM today. In the mean time i
> want to ask you this: you said: "I am
> > definitely here because of how the book made me feel"
> Mari asks: What is the feeling?
You don't know how much trouble I'm going to have giving a short answer to
this.I feel the need to qualify the feeling. I am of the generation that
grew up after the cold war had started and lived through adolescents to
adulthood with that dread.I greeted Gorbachov with joy and relief, this
lasted exactly one day! The dread of nuclear holocaust was replaced with the
realisation that we were going to total the planet anyway. I have been
looking for a way to make a difference. I had been aware of ZMM since it had
been released (all bike mags carried publicity for the book because it had
motorcycle in the title). The book was bought for me as a gift in 1992 and
when I started reading it-as a motorcyclist- it grabbed me-as a
motorcyclist. Here's a quote that resonates every time I tour on my bike,
even travelling with the family by car
"We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on
"good" rather than "time"
and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes".
This is true, it works, and makes life a much more pleasant experience. His
ideas on motorcycle maintenance also work. So when he started talking about
a system for improving the connection between technology and life I believe
that it could work. I believe that if we start thinking Quality and acting
Quality we will change the world. This is serious, I believe we're in the
pivotal 50 to 100 years for mankind, if we don't work it out we're a gonna.
So, the short answer is that it makes me feel positive and that I can make a
difference, and the way for us to make a difference is to get off our fat
arses and do something. What am I doing? well I've joined this discussion
and at the age of 40 I have enrolled in university to become a school
teacher.
When you say you've done "no reading" how is
> it that you go from "no reading" to ZMM? And what exactly is "fuzzy".? Do
> you think these are questions that will help you get to the meat of the
> matter and might eventually lead to some clarity for YOU?
I think the fact that I've done no reading might be a cause of the
fuzziness. But it's the fuzziness that brings me here. When Pirsig talks
about Plato and Zen I just have to take his word for it, that's a problem.
I have read, Lord of the rings, quite a few Australian novelists (that's
where I'm from) and the closest to philosophy I got before ZMM Was Douglas
Adams 5 book trilogy "The Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy". I'm a working
man who has had plenty of excuses not to read, as I have said in past posts
I will rectify this.
The best way I can describe the fuzziness is like coming up with the
solution to all the worlds ills after smoking some really good pot. It all
makes sense and will work and when you wake up the next day you can remember
you had a great idea but you can't remember what it was.
Mari: Well John, the lurkers need to come forth and the regulars need to
see
> the value of those who are less eloquent. Or not.
>
We need a two level conversation here, with interaction from both levels. I,
like you, believe there is a lot to be learnt from the regular posters but
we need some accessibility for lesser lights like myself.
Happy New Year
John from The Rock
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