Many who hear about Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ask, even after reading the book,

What is ZMM Really About?

Although I am not an expert, below is my reply, to this question, originally from Ben Hughes, on Miles City Forums

by Henry S Gurr ZMMQ SiteMaster.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZMM) Is Really MANY Books!

… Thus, ZMM examines the issues of how we think, and how we come to know anything, and relates these issues to Peace of Mind. In other words, as you are doing any => Maintenance, Trouble-Shooting, and Fixing, ZMM will help you, as Mr Pirsig Says, achieve, An inner peace of mind. That’s what you are after!
… For “Peace of Mind” excerpts from ZMM that support my above statements, please scroll down to “Excerpts From ZMM Book, that Illustrate The Achieving of Good In Maintenance, Trouble-Shooting, & Fixing. ZMM helps with ANY Problem, Motorcycle, Computer, or Otherwise.”

Here Is The Testimony Of Computer Expert & Computer Book Author, Nicolai Langfeld. who says => “Another must for good DNS administration (or good anything for that matter) is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.”
… It doesn’t matter if you are a Beginner or an Expert: One of the best books to read for Computer Problem Analysis & Repair, or indeed ANY problematic situation, is Robert Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Since Motorcycles, Computers, & Any Physical Device Are Absolutely Rational Devices, this book has good and valid treatment of mechanical maintenance, and rational problem solving of motorcycles, computers, and otherwise. As any good mechanic will attest, ZMM also does an excellent job of illustrating (and guiding) the reader in good practical maintenance practices, as well as following rational principles. Ditto for Science and also Writing Composition (Rhetoric). As Pirsig says:

ZMM Combines These Many Individual "Books" (And A Virtually Endless Array Of Others) Into A Kind Of Matrix For Approaching The World And Living Life: Thus You Can See, Why Readers Say "ZMM Is Hard To 'Peg'".

By Henry S Gurr, ZMMQ SiteMaster.

ZMM forces any alert adult reader to think a great deal about his or her own self: about values, about life, and about the relationship between the two. Alert adult readers of ZMM find themselves faced with crucial questions: What am I doing in life? Why am I at this job or at this institution of higher learning? In general, ZMM supports the “student" whether he or she is in enrolled in the School of Hard Knocks or in a College or University. ZMM shows the “student" how vitally important it is to thoughtfully combine science and humanities and personal values in any endeavor.

The ideas in "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (ZMM) will offer any serious reader deep and revolutionary truths concerning the whole process of achieving and living a quality life. This book can, and has, changed lives; as is attested in many Amazon.com reviews. (See link below.)

In ZMM we are shown how best to work with (and within) our own God-given psychological and material resources. For example, the roles of analogy, metaphor, and the Flash of Insight are shown to be fundamental to human thinking and learning. Author Robert Pirsig points out how proper learning is often prevented by basic aspects of our present day culture, most especially in our schools and universities. Pirsig patiently instructs us how to learn carefully and improve our lives, despite the deficiencies of our individual upbringing and/or the society around us.

Written in a manner that is accessible and maintains interest, ZMM covers science, philosophy, scientific troubleshooting, problem-solving, the process of scientific discovery, the structure of science itself, and more. For this reason, ZMM is required reading in many university classes and was used as an auxiliary text for six years in both of my physics classes.

"Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Has an Impact Much Like the Ancient "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu.

Robert Pirsig's book, like Lao Tzu's, is a practical guide to life and living, ... a handbook to help "Westerners" apply Zen to their lives. Read the following paragraph from Gia-fu Feng and Jane English’s classic translation of the Tao Te Cheng meditatively; it also says what ZMM is all about.

"The philosophy of Lao Tsu is simple: Accept what is in front of you without wanting the situation to be other than it is. Study the natural order of things and work with it rather than against it, for to try to change what is only sets up resistance. Nature provides everything without requiring payment or thanks and also provides for all without discrimination — therefore let us present the same face to everyone and treat all men as equals, however they may behave. If we watch carefully, we will see that work proceeds more quickly and easily if we stop ‘trying,’ if we stop putting in so much extra effort, if we stop looking for results. In the clarity of a still and open mind, truth will be reflected. We will come to appreciate the original meaning of the word ‘understand’; which means ‘to stand under’. We serve whatever or whoever stands before us, without any thought for ourselves. Te — which may be translated as ‘virtue’ or ‘strength’ — lies always In Tao, or ‘natural law’. In other words: Simply be."

Other Ways To Understand What ZMM Author Robert Pirsig Has Written.
An excellent way to sample a variety of reader responses to ZMM is to go to Amazon.com book reviews (See link below). Scroll down part way to "Editorial Reviews" and then scroll to near the bottom for "Customer Reviews". (At the end of the "Customer Reviews" you can click to "See all 507 customer reviews" as of 22 Sept 2010.)

Excerpts From ZMM Book Illustrate The Achieving of Good In Maintenance, Trouble-Shooting, & Fixing. ZMM Helps With ANY Problem => Motorcycle, Computer, or Otherwise:”

In ZMM, the idea that Quality leads to ‘Peace of Mind’, is so important, that Mr. Pirsig repeats it twenty-seven times, in ZMM. As Pirsig writes =>

"Peace of mind isn’t at all superficial, really," I expound. "It’s the whole thing. That which produces it is good maintenance; that which disturbs it is poor maintenance. What we call workability of the machine is just an objectification of this peace of mind. The ultimate test’s always your own serenity. If you don’t have this when you start and maintain it while you’re working you’re likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself." …

“The difference between a good mechanic and a bad one, like the difference between a good mathematician and a bad one, is precisely this ability to select the good facts from the bad ones on the basis of Quality. He has to care! This is an ability about which formal traditional scientific method has nothing to say. It’s long past time to take a closer look at this qualitative preselection of facts [selecting good facts, by our mind] which has seemed so scrupulously ignored by those who make so much of these facts after they are "observed." I think that it will be found that a formal acknowledgment of the role of Quality in the scientific process doesn’t destroy the empirical vision at all. It expands it, strengthens it and brings it far closer to actual scientific practice.” …

“The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn’t any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it’s right. If it disturbs you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. The test of the machine’s always your own mind.
Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is. And when you presume there’s just one right way to do things, of course the instructions begin and end exclusively with the rotisserie. But if you have to choose among an infinite number of ways to put it together then the relation of the machine to you, and the relation of the machine and you to the rest of the world, has to be considered, because the selection from many choices, the art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That’s why you need the peace of mind." …

“You don’t have to go fishing, of course, to fix your motorcycle. A cup of coffee, a walk around the block, sometimes just putting off the job for five minutes of silence is enough. When you do you can almost feel yourself grow toward that inner peace of mind that reveals it all. That which turns its back on this inner calm and the Quality it reveals is bad maintenance. That which turns toward it is good. The forms of turning away and toward are infinite but the goal is always the same.
“I think that when this concept of peace of mind is introduced and made central to the act of technical work, a fusion of classic and romantic quality can take place at a basic level within a practical working context. I’ve said you can actually see this fusion in skilled mechanics and machinists of a certain sort, and you can see it in the work they do. To say that they are not artists is to misunderstand the nature of art. They have patience, care and attentiveness to what they’re doing, but more than this—there’s a kind of inner peace of mind that isn’t contrived but results from a kind of harmony with the work in which there’s no leader and no follower. The material and the craftsman’s thoughts change together in a progression of smooth, even changes until his mind is at rest at the exact instant the material is right.”…

“So the thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as in any other task, is to cultivate the peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done successfully then everything else follows naturally. Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. That was what it was about that wall in Korea. It was a material reflection of a spiritual reality.”…

You should remember that it’s peace of mind you’re after and not just a fixed machine…

Further Explanation of ”What Is ZMM Really About?”, Comes In Robert Pirsig’s SECOND Book LILA , where his Quality, is explained as two actions => Static Quality and Dynamic Quality

A) -Ryan George, ZMMQ Site Editor Explains => Static Quality and Dynamic Quality.
… In Pirisg’s first book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he uses a railroad analogy to describe Quality itself. Further, in his second book Lila, he separated Quality into two concepts, these being Static and Dynamic Quality. In this analogy, the entirety of the train is Quality, and the majority of it is Static, meaning things which have already occurred and are thus fixed. Dynamic Quality, on the other hand, is the process which pierces the future, and so is the very moving edge of the railroad engine. To put things into another perspective, Dynamic Quality is the process by which we generate new tools, philosophies, ideas, and books to help us, while Static Quality is the corpus of things which we have generated. The computer I am typing this on, and the one you are reading this on, are filled with lots of information: This is Static Quality, while by contrast, the process of invention is Dynamic: For example your mind, when it is CREATEING new ideas, for which you choose words, and typing them into a new sentence.
… Personally, I think a more fitting analogy would be to use a tree as an example, of Static Quality vs Dynamic Quality => . In this analogy, the whole of the tree’s woody growth can be seen as Static Quality, while the meristem – the area where, and so the process by which, new growth is added on – is Dynamic Quality (In trees, all growth occurs in regions called the meristem). Actively in creative process, right now! This is also a good example of Constructivism, as explained below.

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Sarah Passages by Robert Pirsig, In His Book =>

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance .

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B) My Explanation of Static Quality and Dynamic Quality, (& How These Come About), As Brain Processes In Our Own Mind According To My My Proto Theory of Mind.

By SiteMaster Henry Gurr

… Robert Pirsig and Sarah Jennings Vinke, were Professors of English & Rhetoric at Montana State University: The three passages above in italics, are Mr Pirsig’s report of what Sarah said about Quality.
… What did she really mean by this? As a Teaching Professor, Pirsig deeply pondered, and then fully investigated what Sarah herself meant by these words. His answer, became the Book. Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZMM).

But To Fully See What the Book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Is Really About, Requires Reading & Understanding => Static Quality and Dynamic Quality, => in Mr Pirsig’s SECOND Book LILA .
AND for you to see “What ZMM Is Really About”, you will have to eventually Realize that ZMM + LILA , are the beginnings of A Theory of How Our Mind Works!
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… Only after many readings of ZMM (and later LILA ) did I start to really understand ZMM and begin to see its importance. Only with more study, did I finally “see”, that Mr. Pirsig’s Quality (especially Dynamic Quality), was a VERY remarkable, important property (and accomplishment), of our own Human Mind. And from this I began to see that overall ZMM strongly supported my then developing Proto Theory of How Our Mind Works. =>The best explanation of how all this fits together is in Chapter 10 of The 2017 Biography of Sarah Vinke “The Divine Sarah” of the ZMM Book by James Essinger and Henry Gurr

The following are excerpts from where James (JE) and I (HG), conduct A Dialog On Quality: Worked into this Dialog, is just how Mr. Pirsig’s Static Quality and Dynamic Quality, operate (i.e. come about), in our own Mind, as delineated in my Proto Theory of Mind.

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HG -- With these three statements (see italics above, separated by the “oOOo”), Sarah herself started a new and expanded understanding and usage for the word Quality. It is this vastly expanded meaning that is used throughout the 2nd half of ZMM. Now after ZMM came out, readers asked a host of questions, which forced Pirsig to do a tremendous amount of further thinking. His answers were written into his Second book LILA .
… Now in LILA , Pirsig breaks Quality into two different parts. One of them he calls Static Quality, which is everything we know and feel and understand. In his Railroad Freight Train Analogy, he [Pirsig] calls this Static Quality, which is the contents of the railroad train on the track of Quality. He means by Static Quality, that which is fixed, it’s given, it’s here. Thus, Static Quality is essentially all of our knowledge, all of our thoughts right up to the split-second of the moment, called ‘right now’. So, Static Quality is what is in our minds, as well as all our history of our lives, and the history of our civilization.
… This means Static Quality is, for example, everything that’s in my mind, everything that I’ve read in books, all my knowledge, how to get up in the morning and brush my teeth and how to read a book, and Static Quality is everything that’s on my web pages. And for Pirsig in his analogy, the freight train analogy, Static Quality is the whole entire contents of the box-cars in the 120 car, two mile long, railroad train.

JE – So are you saying that Static Quality is what’s in your head?

HG – Yes, everything that’s in my head and everything I see around me. Now to make a restricted definition, Static Quality is everything that’s around me, that’s already in existence, that I’m aware of, or can be aware of. Now…

JE – I don’t really get this. If you’re saying that Quality is just thoughts in your head, I don’t see how that tallies with Sarah’s insistence on Quality as a particular positive attribute of something.

HG - It might become clearer if I explain what Dynamic Quality is according to Pirsig’s thinking. While Static Quality is everything that already exists in your mind. It’s already what’s in the freight train box cars; it already has happened. In contrast to Static Quality, Pirsig introduces Dynamic Quality, which is the action of our mind [Our Problem Solving Brain], finding and opening up the next split second of our life. Pirsig calls this ‘the cutting edge of reality’, which could also be called the cutting edge of new awareness, or the cutting edge of life’s next experience. In his railroad train analogy, Pirsig says of Dynamic Quality, ‘it’s the very front skin of the freight train locomotive’. Thus Dynamic Quality is that which is actively and always moving forward, just as the very front of the freight train engine is always cutting, Dynamically, into new territory. And just as soon as this cutting edge has happened, we now have into mind thoughts and memories. And these thoughts plus memories, are now Static Quality, because they now exist, in your mind. Static Quality is the very thing that builds into your memory & knowledge, a split-second after Dynamic Quality has caused its leading edge to go wherever it goes, as Pirsig says: ‘Following the (railroad] track of Quality’.

JE – I understand this but it seems a bit abstract to me. It doesn’t seem closely related to what you’ve described of Quality as being people’s way of using their brains to solve problems. Which, by the way, has always seemed to me, from the moment you mentioned it to me, a wise and interesting way of understanding Quality. I mean, I personally feel that this biography of Sarah needs to be very clear in what its concepts are and maybe really clearer, than Pirsig sometimes is. And basically what you say is that Quality is indeed people using their brains to solve problems and it’s the result of evolution giving people brains that allow them to solve problems.
… That struck me as being a very wise and useful and comprehensive way of understanding Quality, because it links very well to Pirsig’s ideas in the early chapters of ZMM exploring technology, about how understanding technology and making technology work to bring you benefits, is a really important thing to do.
… I think Pirsig’s view on technology was particularly accurate. He was writing in the late 1960s, and ZMM was published in 1974, which was close to a decade before the modern computer age really got going in the way we understand it. I mean the microchip hadn’t even been invented then. But Pirsig was saying basically that when you have powerful technology you have to know how to use it and know what to do, to make it give it its very best performance, and it seems to me that is exactly how we relate to computers today. And so I think Quality as a manifestation of how human beings use technology to solve their problems is a very, very, pertinent definition - OK, maybe not definition, we are supposed to avoid the word definition - but way of understanding Quality, and I’m really, I’m much more comfortable when Quality is spoken in those kind of terms than when it’s spoken of in more abstract terms that I don’t really understand.

HG – Yes, let me pick this up in the following way. Your meaning of quality, ‘quality of’, as relates to ‘product or service’, is just one meaning, and a very restricted one. But Sarah and Pirsig’s meaning vastly expands the meaning of Quality. Their Quality refers to a perception of an ‘immediate participatory relationship’, which is an action of our mind: Quality, especially Pirsig’s Dynamic Quality, is our brain’s ability to perceive problems and proceed to solve those problems: And this is another way to say what I said above about Pirsig’s Dynamic Quality, as ‘the cutting edge’. Now it’s important to see these two ways of describing, fit each other, and also fit with the achieving of ‘The Good’. Including as a by-product, good answers, and good results in the very second by second process of all of our lives: Thus Dynamic Quality includes, but also goes way beyond just quality technology products.
… [Sarah & Pirsig’s Quality, as shown in in my Proto Theory, are abilities of our Human Brain =>] Doing what our brains are designed by nature to do, our minds on-automatic, can solve problems and in the process, instantly recognize better and best solutions. Now it is important to see that, this solving problems is fully equivalent to Pirsig’s Dynamic Quality, as ‘the leading edge of reality’: And is indeed how I earnestly urge our readers to think about Quality in action. In summary: As I understand Pirsig in his book ZMM (augmented by LILA ): Quality, especially Dynamic Quality is our entire, holistic mind - body’s nearly automatic problem solving response to life coming at us, and it’s always dynamic, and is happening every split second. As Pirsig says in the quotation below, Quality is the cutting edge of creating our reality, itself:

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JE – OK, now I understand this.

HG – To take a concrete example: in this Dialog you are sometimes posing questions for me. Now in response [and this is the action of Dynamic Quality) I have to perceive your question. I have to prepare and formulate answers in my mind, then my audio system must change those apparent thoughts in my mind to English words, then English sentences. then these sentences must come out with a voice, in a clear enunciation, with clear, complete, direct answers which carry wholly my meaning, feeling, and understanding of what I want to say.
… Now, that’s Dynamic Quality. That’s my brain problem-solving, providing answers, on the fly, to what’s coming at me in this conversation. Saying it differently, I’m in a ‘go state’, ‘primed’ for high-quality action. An extreme version of this, can happen in a highly creative state called ‘flow’,
… So, now once these thoughts have come into my mind, these thoughts, plus everything that has happened before, in my whole entire life, by Pirsig’s statements, become Static Quality. This is how I understand Pirsig in ZMM and Lila. Just as soon as Dynamic Quality’s done its job, you now have in your mind ‘added contents’ to your Static Quality. [My Proto Theory, says that once the Optimal Problem Solution, Mentally Arrives into our Conscious Mind, it is also added to our memory. ]
… Here, I’m suddenly reminded of an example of Dynamic Quality in what Pirsig told his students about writing when he was a teacher at Montana State College =>.

HG – This is of course is what they should achieve, in any and every aspect of life.
Ultimately, this message is Pirsig’s overall goal in ZMM. In fact, in his public discussion Art and the Metaphysics of Quality, Pirsig says another example of Dynamic Quality:

JE – Yes, I understand that. And now I can relate to the idea of Static and Dynamic Quality in the following terms. The distinction between the two types of Quality works very well in the relation to the history of technology, because after all the issue of technology you could argue is simply the answers that we human beings have come up with to solve a particular problem. Which is at the heart of why the technology exists.
… This Dynamic Quality, to use the terms you use, is like the leading edge, basically the leading thinking edge, Pirsig’s ‘cutting edge of reality’, in the minds of the creators, of new technology solutions that are coming up. Now that makes sense to me.

HG – Now to Sarah Vinke’s use of the idea Quality and the word Quality, let me add-in some thoughts that build from Pirsig’s Railroad Train Analogy: Dynamic Quality is the cutting edge of ourselves, and our society, and indeed the whole universe. So, Quality, particularly Dynamic Quality, is the cutting edge of our whole reality, and that’s what Pirsig got a-hold of and worked on and worked on and worked on. And this cutting edge, called Dynamic Quality, is an automatic problem solving ability we have in ourselves, and it most certainly is an important part of our being. Pirsig says it’s the leading edge of the freight train engine, that opens up new territory, but just as soon as that territory is entered, just ever so slightly, the thickness of a coating of paint, it becomes Static Quality, in those boxcars following along on the track of Quality. For example, to the contents of those boxcars, are added our newly learned, skills and knowledge.

HG – This same conclusion, is also implied in all of ZMM, where Dynamic Quality is the cutting edge of reality’, and makes our reality (i.e. topic of Constructivism), ‘All of it. Every last bit of it.’ [ << Which in my Proto Theory, is another result of our Problem Solving Brain.]
… The first use of the concept of Constructivism was in psychology, people constructing in their own minds, what they think someone else is thinking. Then physicists adopted this term when they realized that students Constructed, in their own minds, physics. Physics teachers don’t teach Physics. Rather, the physics teacher must properly present the physics material to be learned in such a manner that their students can (on their own) build up accurate physics knowledge in their own mind. Not only must the student build a physical model of physics in their own mind, but also, at the same time, build an understanding of physics.
… This same idea (technically called Philosophic Constructivism) is important for ALL of us to understand. Along with our normal ongoing perception of the world around us, our brain is (automatically) forming memory traces of everything we see and think. Simultaneously, these on-going ‘perceptions and stored-memory-trace-content together actively (problem-solving brain again), combine to ‘construct’ our general mental model of the world around us. This ‘constructed general mental model of the world around us (then stored in memory),’ is the very ‘thing’ that, in the ongoing future, is turned around and used for decoding (second by second) our next perception.
… Now, the more I think about it, the more I realize that this truth applies to absolutely everything that comes into our mind. We construct the universe around us, from the get-go. It’s all constructed by and in our own human brain … in our own human mind. … This is how Pirsig puts it in ZMM =>

HG – Now, in our mind, how is this actually being done? We can best understand all this with the physics model of Princeton Physicist J J Hopfield: He created a Mathematical Theory, that showed for a biological brain, that Single, All At Once (such as a Flash of Insight), Optimal Solutions To Surrounding World Complex Input, is indeed possible, indeed likely. Thus Hopfield says essentially, that our human problem solving ability, (an action Pirsig calls Quality) is a natural property of our God given brain. From this we can see, that Pirsig’s Dynamic Quality, is an ability, really an intrinsic property, of our own physical-biological human mind. And from this naturally follows, that the Hopfield Theory strongly supports what Pirsig is saying and points to just how it is that our brain, as a physical system, can automatically discover good answers, i.e. good solutions, to what I would call ‘life’s problems coming at us’. (Pirsig calls this the result of Dynamic Quality) And these solutions (some of which are perceptions and insights) are to be understood as constructing, in our mind, the whole universe, as Pirsig says. ‘Every last bit of it.’ This quoted phrase is asserted four times in ZMM, so Pirsig surely must really mean this.

HG – From this our readers should go on to realize that Philosophic Constructivism is the general foundational undergirding of ZMM. This is most apparent when Pirsig uses the word ‘construct’, specifically with this meaning, NINE times in ZMM, quoting Albert Einstein and Henri’ Poincare’, along the way. [Construct or Constructivism is used with this meaning in my Proto Theory 67 times! ]
… And I believe Pirsig’s ‘create the world in which we live’ applies (at most) to the part of the universe that is created (brain constructivism), in … our own mind … which is all we can ever know. This again is Pirsig’s Dynamic Quality, constructing the universe, in our mind, as is all of our knowledge, which Pirsig calls Static Quality. In ZMM, Pirsig summarizes how important all this is =>

Some ZMM Readers Find ZMM Difficult. The Following TWO Links Offer My Guidance

A) My Reading ZMM with Enjoyment and Lack of Frustration Is Here.

B) My Own Suggestions As To What Causes Reader Extreme Dislike of ZMM Are Here.

Some of the 4-Star & 5-Star Amazon ZMM Reviewers offer guidance for enjoyable reading of ZMM. And they also offer their ideas about the causes of frustration in reading ZMM. These are collected and collated here. You may read more here => Amazon.com ZMM book "Editorial Reviews" and "Customer Reviews".

Resources For Further Reading:

What ZMM Is Really About, May Be Also Discerned By Looking For It, In My “Why Read Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance “ by Henry S Gurr, ZMMQ Sitemaster.
http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/WhyReadZMM

You May Also See Much of What ZMM Is Really About, By Reading-This-Into What 4-Star & 5-Star Amazon ZMM Reviewers say what they what they found in ZMM!
http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/index.php?n=Documents.ReadZmmBestWay

My Modest Collection of "Best Books Lists".
A way to gauge the relative importance of ZMM, is to see it’s rating compared to other books people have found valuable. At this link you will see that Robert Pirsig is listed right along with other authors of literary and philosophical classics. These authors include: Tolstoy, Melville, and J.R.R. Tolkien. See, for example, "Top 100 Novels" / "Best Spiritual Books of Century" / "Great Books" here:
http://web.usca.edu/math/faculty-sites/henry-gurr/ZMMFindSiteInfo.dot#BestBooks

10 Tips On How To Read Philosophy, OR Indeed ANY Book!
by Matt NelsonJuly 07, 2015.
https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/blog/10-tips-on-how-to-read-philosophy/4814/

Just In Case You Haven’t Already Figured, I Am Totally Convinced Of The importance & Long Term, Outstanding Worth of Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
My serious study of ZMM, goes Back To ~1987, and over the years my conviction has only increased!! This comes through my continued efforts to write-up these ZMMQ Pages, and more recently The Sarah Vinke Biography. But in addition, my conclusions become most especially firm, because, of how Pirsig’s ZMM Is strongly supported by many insightful authors, and How ZMM’s Static Quality and Dynamic Quality, Are Supported by Henry Gurr’s Proto Theory of How Our Mind Works: Our General Problem Solving Brain, Is Quality In Action, & Seeks Best:

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