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Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Chapter 1
Reflection on 2 passages
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Sevilla King

August 2022

Commentary on Chapter 8 of Lila - An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
I’ve lost the original transcript for chapter 8 commentary. However, since I recorded these videos over a year ago, my thoughts and feelings about Lila…
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Sevilla King

January 2022

Commentary on Chapter 7 of Lila - An Inquiry into Morals - by Robert M. Pirsig
Primarily what’s happening in this chapter are two things: One, he’s setting up how his philosophy is veering into understanding the social arena within…
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Sevilla King

October 2021

Comments on Rebel Wisdom’s Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Book Club with Jonathan Rowson
This was a wonderful book club. On top of it, this is the second case of Pirsig coming up on an influential channel in a short period of time, a few…
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Sevilla King

September 2021

Commentary of Chapter 6 of Lila - An Inquiry into Morals - by Robert M. Pirsig
This chapter is meant describe the experience of someone embedded in a traditional way of thinking, where mystical understanding is irrelevant and…
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Sevilla King
Commentary on Chapter 5 of Lila - An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
(Direct quotes from Lila in italics) This chapter begins with a statement that should clarify how Phaedrus, and by osmosis, Pirsig identifies Quality…
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Sevilla King

August 2021

Commentary on Chapter 4 of Lila - An Inquiry into Morals - by Robert M. Pirsig
(Italics indicate direct quotes from Lila) Ostensibly, much of this chapter is about what is wrong with the Anthropology, and more specifically, the…
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Sevilla King

July 2021

Lila - An Inquiry into Morals - by Robert M. Pirsig - Commentary on Chapter 3
Chapter 3 is interesting because it presumably lays out what is going to be Phaedrus’ theory of reality. There was not much for me in interpreting this…
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Sevilla King

June 2021

Lila - An Inquiry into Morals - by Robert M. Pirsig - Commentary on Chapter 2
When Phædrus awoke he saw through the hatch that the sky had become less black. Dawn was coming. Then he realized he wasn’t alone. In fact he was…
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Sevilla King
Lila - An Inquiry into Morals - Commentary on Chapter 1
Note: In my videos, you will notice that I pronounce Lila as LIE-LA, rather than LEE-LA. This is partially due to a Pirsig reference that Lila was…
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Sevilla King
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How to Find Quality News.
It’s pointless for me to make a video about how awful the media and how division situation is. That would just be more complaining. We know the…
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Sevilla King

May 2021

Reflections on Life through the lens of Pirsig
Welcome to A Quality Existence by me, Sevilla King. Drawing on the work of Pirsig and others to live richly...live with Quality...a Quality Existence…
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Sevilla King
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