[MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

[plattholden at gmail.com]

All:

The other day I happened across what appears to be a contradiction in 
the MOQ as presented in Lila. In chapter 7 Pirsig says, "The world is 
primarily a moral order" and supports his contention by describing all the 
moral choices toward betterness that were made during the course of 
evolution. But then in chapter 11 he wrote: "He let himself get caught in 
the kind of 'picking and choosing' situation that Zen avoids and now he 
was stuck."

If Zen is the key to understanding reality and if reality is best understood 
as "picking and choosing" among values, a process that Zen avoids, a 
contradiction arises.

I wonder if someone has an explanation for this apparent incongruity. 

Regards,
Platt