From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 18:36:38 BST
PIRSIG:
You can't run away from yourself, away from your past. My family and friends are there and if I am to accomplish anything it will be there. I want to overcome the idea that the Midwest is a cultural desert, although it often is. Minnesotans will accept things from a native that they never would from an outsider. For instance, I have helped establish a Zen Center in Minneapolis and we have imported a great Zen Master. An outsider could never have done it."
While greatly encouraged by this first step in the cross-cultural fertilization of Minneapolis, Mr. Pirsig is sanguine about the immediate acceptance of his imported master.
"Why, in the Far East," he said with a smile, "the master is considered a living Buddha, but, in Minneapolis, they wonder why he doesn't have a job.
Mark Steven Heyman <markheyman@infoproconsulting.com> wrote:
Hi Scott,
Scott:
The problem is that you do not seem to realize that you are part of the
problem. As am I, and as are we all. But -- or so I flatter myself in so
thinking -- to recognize that one is part of the problem is the first step
in ceasing to be so.
msh 08-01-05:
Ok. Then what's the second step?
See, this is the kind of one-hand-clapping nonsense that leads to the
religion of do nothing and things will get better. I guess it works
great if you're in the boot with the iron heel, or if the heel comes
down in someone else's neighborhood. Now, imagine yourself beneath
the heel, then lecture us about what we should do.
I'm all ears.
Best,
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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