Talk:Zen in the Art of Archery

message: :Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Its title is a play on words of Zen in the Art of Archery.
It would really enrigh this article to describe any further ways these works are related, as I know there is more than just the title. --DanielCD 20:57, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article claims that this book "inspired a series of other titles". I think it's more likely that it inspired one title, namely "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", which achieving far greater reknown than this one, led to the hundreds of others. I bet most writers of "Zen and the Art..."-titled books have never even heard of this one. (I am a huge fan of ZAMM but never knew about this book until now.) -- 05:09, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  It should probably be properly referenced if this book or any others did in fact inspire ZAMM but the whole section on influences is unreferenced and speculative. Attempts by some editors to clean it up, only made it more indecisive and I marked it as needing citations, but after looking at the discussion and edit history it looks like the whole section might need to be removed until some kind of references are provide to show it is anything more than coincidence. -- 109.77.128.95 (talk) 14:34, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences 

message: The author was a Nazi sympathizer, apparently. Is this relevant?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.82.70.58 (talk) 06:27, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Nazi Affiliations

message: I was not so bold as to add it myself (as I'm still relatively new to editing Wikipedia articles), but Herrigel claimed on multiple occasions to have been significantly influenced by particular tenets of mysticism, particularly as defined by William James. Should this be included in the article, or is it too difficult to qualify "significant influence," even if it comes from the author himself? Fred.Pendleton (talk) 06:44, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Mysticism

message: the author has preserved the originality of the experience and stated it unbiased.
the commentry on it,where the author proposes his own narrative is well defined.
the book is good on content,as the author himself bring out the doubts that any
student new to this art has...it should be read as a student under a master and a person 
describing an experience he went through rather than an authority on it.
59.162.89.186 (talk) 10:06, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  thanks to herrigel for his effort 

message: Can I find out who wrote the Book section? I'd like to credit him/her in a reference I'm making to the article and that section specifically.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.94.91.16 (talk) 16:04, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book 

message: I guess ZAMM is a (well-known?) acronym for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? This is never explained in the article. I would fix it, but since I'm not sure that is actually what is meant, that might just muddle the waters.
In fact, that whole section (influences) screams speculation and original research. Do we have any sources for the claims, or are we just guessing? 130.243.96.164 (talk) 08:49, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  ZAMM?