“The only Zen you find on top of
mountains is the Zen you bring there.”
-Robert M. Pirsig
We discussed this quote when we were discussing Christopher
McCandless. McCandless went out into the
Alaskan wilderness trying to find something.
Jon Krakauer, the author of Into the
Wild, was also trying to find something when he climbed the Devil’s Thumb
in Alaska. Both of these men had inner
problems that they were trying to heal in the Wilderness. In class we came up with a meaning of Zen as
inner peace. Going into the wilderness
can be an escape from your problems, but you can only heal these problems in
yourself. You can only bring the amount
of inner peace into the wilderness that you had before going.
why do you think they find the need to go out there?
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