[MD] Taking off the glasses?

[Carl Thames]

Marsha:
> "While I am thinking about it there is a very good book on Buddhism 
> recently out called 'Buddhism, Plain and Simple', by Steve Hagen and 
> published by Tuttle Publishing. I recommend you get it because it shows 
> the similarities, between the MOQ and Zen Buddhism more clearly than any 
> other I have seen."
>
>    (Pirsig to McWatt, May 6th 1998.)

> "We can't comprehend Reality with our intellects.  We can't pull it into a 
> static view of some thing.  All our explanations are necessarily 
> provisional.  They're just rigid frames of what is actually motion and 
> fluidity.  In other words, if you think of how Reality is, you can be sure 
> that's how it isn't.  Reality simply cannot be put into conceptual 
> form --- not even through analogy, for there's nothing like it.  Reality 
> simply doesn't fit into concepts at all.
>
> (Hagen, Steve, ‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, p.71)

Isn't this what Pirsig worked out when he realized that "truth," like 
"beauty," were not fixed, static concepts but rather events?  That's what I 
bought away from ZMM so many years ago, and I haven't encountered anything 
since that would falsify the concepts.