The Independent - London, December 8th, 2006
"The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower."
Robert Pirsig's essay centres on a motorcycle trip Phaedrus takes with his son, Chris, across the US. Phaedrus constantly questions what is good, what is real and what is moral. In other words, how can one distinguish good from bad?
The reader takes a tour of Greek philosophy, the steppes of ...
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