Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi:@bmacDonald94 Pirsig's a fascinating fellow. This quote of his blew my mind when I first read it:
"I just sat there cross-legged in the room for three days. All sorts of volitions started to go away. My wife started getting upset at me sitting there, got a little insulting. Pain disappeared, cigarettes burned down in my fingers ... This is described in the psychiatric canon as catatonic schizophrenia. It is cited in the Zen Buddhist canon as hard enlightenment. I have never insisted on either."
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