Lila
mohammad hadi izadi
Has anyone read Robert Pirsig's latest book (author of
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Lila?
Unlike his first book it got trashed by critics but
that's mostly because they didn't understand it.
Recently a friend gave it to me and I devoured it
and loved it yet he didn't have a clue as to what
it was about eventhough he is an M.D. and had
the highest M-CAT scores in the country. Am I alone
out there in thinking this is an exceptionally
important and valuable book?
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Anonymous
Sinenmaa Kati
izadi) writes:
>Am I alone out there in thinking this is an exceptionally
>important and valuable book?
No. Here and there are many people who are thinking like you. That book's
ideas are so frightening to men who deny their inner world that it takes
times to come to acceptable book widely. But be patient and spread the
information of Lila's contents and do not take it badly if our sisters
and brothers say against you opinion. Only you can grow your mind up.
And if you take the others opinion heavily then the others' opinion
fertilize you own physical mind. Rise you spiritual mind above all
material things. You are gods, is said in the Writings. God is spirit.
And only spiritual mind can grasp that evereyones has some value.
And only growing mind can become more and more conscious the
meaning of those spiritual values. And, when you are looking at
back to your way, then you can become to realize the fact that
inspite of that growing of your mind, there is yet one that is
left thoroughly unchanhing; it is your personality. And then you
think, how on urantia it is possible? I reveal it to you. The
personality can be immutable because it comes to man from God,
who itself is the allgiving Infinite Person. There is not any
other way to explain this truth.
M Barnard
>Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Lila?
>Unlike his first book it got trashed by critics but
>that's mostly because they didn't understand it.
>Recently a friend gave it to me and I devoured it
>and loved it yet he didn't have a clue as to what
>it was about eventhough he is an M.D. and had
>the highest M-CAT scores in the country. Am I alone
>out there in thinking this is an exceptionally
>important and valuable book
Having read both _Lila_ and _Zen..._, I can say that _Zen..._ was by far the
better "book." The story was gripping, the conflicts interesting and the
ideas more clearly expressed. In _Lila_, Persig spent a great deal more time
lecturing about the ideas and preaching.
What it comes down to for me is that _Zen_ can be read and enjoyed as fiction
much more easily than _Lila_.
This isn't to say that the ideas in _Lila_ aren't good, BTW.
M
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