Examining The Major Thread Topics => Quality, Reality, & Good Old Reality, That Are Found, In Robert Pirsig’s Book “Zen and the Art OF Motorcycle Maintenance”: By Henry S Gurr ZMMQ SiteMaster.

As You can see in the Photo Caption Copy Placed Below, The Original Idea to Study “At Depth”, Robert Pirsig’s 83 Uses Of the Word “Reality” in his Book “Zen and the Art OF Motorcycle Maintenance” , came in the process of writing up that very caption!

A Good Morning For Jogging.
.... “I get out of the sleeping bag. It’s cold and I get dressed quickly. Chris is asleep. I walk around him, climb over a fallen treetrunk and walk up the logging road. To warm myself I speed up to a jog and move up the road briskly.
.... Good, good, good, good, good. The word keeps time with the jogging. Some birds fly up from the shadowy hill into the sunlight and I watch them until they’re out of sight. Good, good, good, good, good. Crunchy gravel on the road. Good, good. Bright yellow sand in the sun. Good, good, good. .. These roads go on for miles sometimes. Good, good, good. Eventually I reach a point where I’m really winded. The road is higher now and I can see for miles over the forest. .. Good.” (Cont.Next Photo)

Dirt Logging Road, Forested Mountains, Lochsa River Canyon. ID.
....This whole passage emphasizes Quality of being alive “Good, good, good, good, good.” and implies essentially => The Narrator's continuous dependence on “Good old reality” . . .
....If fact as said in passage above, The Narrator uses the “reality” of “..speed up to a jog and move up the road briskly ” 'in the sun illuminated forest, to literally “dis-spell” any lingering dream.. “Good old reality”
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....DATE-LINE: June 24, 2021. by Henry Gurr.
EXAMINING MORE CLOSELY THE ZMM NARRATOR’S => “Good old reality”
....Somehow, from my many readings of ZMM, I got the idea that the phrase “Good old reality” (or equivalent), occurred many time in ZMM. So … in process of writing the captions (for above and previous photos) … I decided to find how many more, by > ZMM Full Text > Edit > Find > reality
....I was surprised to see ONLY the one “Good old reality” as already discussed!
EXPLANATION:
....But in the process of the above, my Edit > Find > I found 83 “reality” words, for each of which I took time to study what Author Robert Pirsig said in the surrounding paragraphs.
In Doing This => I Realized Three AHA Insights =>
....A) One of the Many Major Topic Threads In ZMM => Is Robert Pirsig covering a tremendous range of Philosophical Subjects, and in the process explains an understanding of => Just what “reality” is for us, and how we experience “reality”, how do we tell “reality” from dreams, and how we actually know what “reality” actually IS, through Robert Pirsig’s => The Action Of Quality!
....B) AND THEN I realized => I should suggest that you (Dear ZMM Enthusiast), should do as I did, so you can also see & appreciate This Major Thread in ZMM !!
....C) AND THEN I realized => This Whole “Reality” Topic Is Important Enough to have Its own ZMMQ Page Called =>
….“Examining The Major Thread Topics => “Quality, Reality” & “Good Old Reality”. That Are Found In Robert Pirsig’s Book “Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.
NOTE: This above mentioned page, is of course, what you are reading Right Now,

'ALL THIS “REALITY” '' INFORMATION, IS TO HELP YOU =>
.... UNDERSTAND A MAJOR TOPIC THREAD IN THE ZMM BOOK.
........ PLEASE TAKE TIME TO STUDY AND ENJOY '''
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....SIDE NOTE => In the ZMM Narrator’s above passage, we should notice, “Some birds fly up from the shadowy hill into the sunlight and I watch them until they’re out of sight.” ,
....Here, as in many other Photo Captions, we should notice several Master Motifs => a) “birds fly”, b) “from shadows into light”, and c) “watch till goes out of sight”
....As has been discussed previously in these Albums => This is Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us Metaphorically what happens to The Narrator’s communication with Chris. “It comes up “from the shadows into sunlight, but then, “goes out of sight”, after nothing has happen! Why?
(Photo = 110-1063cz.5 ...... ZMM Page = 246 ...... WayPt = 265i8. Photo at 268w 3003ft)
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....DATE-LINE: Feb 17, 2022. by Henry Gurr.
As I was working on the following Photo Caption, I suddenly realized => This following has good content for this Quality, Reality, & Good Old Reality, Special Studies Page, which you are reading Right Now,.
…NOTE: The whole caption is placed below, without any editing.

Plants Have a Hard Time Surviving Here.
…. “The metal of these wrenches is so cold it hurts the hands. But it’s a good hurt. It’s real, not imaginary, and it’s here, absolutely, in my hand. …….. .. In his pursuit of a concept of Quality, Phædrus kept seeing again and again little paths all leading toward some point off to one side. He thought he already knew about the general area they led to, ancient Greece, but now he wondered if he had overlooked something there.” …..[Here the Narrator relates (in two pages) 1) Discuss how “Sarah Vinke had put the idea of Quality in his head”. 2) What happened when he arrived at the University of Chicago and 3) How his PhD Thesis on Qualty can not have either Substantive or Objective about it, 4) Plus details about the U. Chicago’s “Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods” ] “…. On the machine now everything is done except the oil change. I wake Chris and we pack and go. He’s still sleepy but the cold air on the road wakes him up.” (Cont. Next) <br />
5.8 Miles North of La Pine, OR. In the Narrator’s passage above we note => “It’s real, not imaginary, and it’s here, absolutely, in my hand.” Here again we notice the Narrator’s dependence on “Good old reality.“ The same is absolutely true for all of us. However, like the air surrounding us, we seldom notice it!! This explains why the Narrator repeatedly reminds us of this fact which is an integral part of his Quality Philosophy.
…And as the ZMM Narrator, repeatedly reminds us => “…The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
…Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of structure.
…Value, is the predecessor of structure. It’s the preintellectual awareness that gives rise to it. Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it’s derived.”

This Whole “Reality” Topic Is Important Enough To Have Its Own ZMMQ Page =>
… In the above “ italiced” words from ZMM, notice the Narrator’s emphasis on “ Reality, ” Here, to be really sure you get full message, please > (10 each) > Do > Page Top > Edit > Find > real And read the surrounding text.
…From this you should see the importance of “ Real, Reality, & Good Old Reality. ”
… NOTE: From the above Henry Gurr realized he should create this ABOVE => Special Study of => “Author Robert Pirsig’s Major Thread Topic Quality, Reality, & Good Old Reality, as is written into Robert Pirsig’s book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.

(Photo = 113-1352cs ...... ZMM Page = 301...... WayPt = 358i15 ~4219. Photo at 363w 4578ft)

....DATE-LINE: March, 2024. by Henry Gurr.
,,,In going thru old emails, I found the following concerning ZMM book’s “cutting edge” , Suddenly I realized => The following has good content for this Quality, Reality, & Good Old Reality, Special Studies Page.
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ZMM Quotes Below Found By > Edit > Find > Cutting
…Each of these "cutting edge” passages, describes resulting actions, of our Problem Solving Brain as it is finding "What is best" Or “Quality, Value”, for which The J. J. Hopfield Neuron Network Model, is the best explanation! =>

"He simply meant that at the cutting edge of time, before an object can be distinguished, there must be a kind of nonintellectual awareness, which he called awareness of Quality.”

"Romantic reality is the cutting edge of experience. It’s the leading edge of the train of knowledge that keeps the whole train on the track.”

"The leading edge is where absolutely all the action is. The leading edge contains all the infinite possibilities of the future. It contains all the history of the past. Where else could they be contained?”

"The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.”

"Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of structure. Value is the predecessor of structure. It’s the preintellectual awareness that gives rise to it. Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it’s derived.”

'' "The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

"Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of structure. Value is the predecessor of structure. It’s the preintellectual awareness that gives rise to it. Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it’s derived.”

"What produces this involvement is, at the cutting edge of consciousness, an absence of any sense of separateness of subject and object. "Being with it," "being a natural," "taking hold"—there are a lot of idiomatic expressions for what I mean by this absence of subject-object duality ”
" because what I mean is so well understood as folklore, common sense, the everyday understanding of the shop. But in scientific parlance the words for this absence of subject-object duality are scarce because scientific minds have shut themselves off from consciousness of this kind of understanding in the assumption of the formal dualistic scientific outlook” .

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NOTE: If you have comments or suggestions, , please send Email to HenryG__usca.edu
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