Phaedrus Passages Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintennance
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Zen and the Fine art of Motorbike Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values past Robert M. Pirsig216,160 ratings, three.77 average rating, ix,545 reviews
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"You lot are never dedicated to something you have consummate conviction in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sunday is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to ascent tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it'southward always considering these dogmas or goals are in incertitude."
― Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"We're in such a bustle most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless solar day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years afterwards where all the fourth dimension went and distressing that it'southward all gone. "
― Zen and the Art of Motorbike Maintenance: An Enquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorbike Maintenance: An Enquiry Into Values
"In a car you're always in a compartment, and considering you lot're used to information technology you don't realize that through that machine window everything you see is merely more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
On a wheel the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with information technology all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorbike because it is a organization is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects but, no alter is possible. The truthful organization, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn downwardly but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality volition simply produce some other mill. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, and so those patterns volition repeat themselves in the succeeding government. In that location's then much talk well-nigh the system. And so little agreement."
― Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton." ...and what that means is that that law of gravity exists nowhere except in people's heads! It 's a ghost!"
Mind has no thing or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. numbers exist only in the mind. I don't get upset when scientists say that ghosts be in the mind. it'south that only that gets me. science is just in your mind also, it'southward just that that doesn't make it bad. or ghosts either."
Laws of nature are human inventions, similar ghosts. Police force of logic, of mathematics are as well human inventions, like ghosts."
...nosotros see what we see considering these ghosts prove it to u.s.a., ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. Ane of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past."
― Zen and the Art of Motorbike Maintenance: An Enquiry Into Values
Mind has no thing or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. numbers exist only in the mind. I don't get upset when scientists say that ghosts be in the mind. it'south that only that gets me. science is just in your mind also, it'southward just that that doesn't make it bad. or ghosts either."
Laws of nature are human inventions, similar ghosts. Police force of logic, of mathematics are as well human inventions, like ghosts."
...nosotros see what we see considering these ghosts prove it to u.s.a., ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. Ane of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past."
― Zen and the Art of Motorbike Maintenance: An Enquiry Into Values
"The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission every bit he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower. To recall otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"To the untrained heart ego-climbing and selfless climbing may announced identical. Both kinds of climbers place one pes in front of the other. Both breathe in and out at the aforementioned rate. Both end when tired. Both go forwards when rested. Simply what a difference! The ego-climber is like an instrument that's out of aligning. He puts his human foot downwards an instant too soon or too belatedly. He's probable to miss a beautiful passage of sunlight through the trees. He goes on when the sloppiness of his step shows he's tired. He rests at odd times. He looks up the trail trying to come across what's alee even when he knows what's alee considering he but looked a second before. He goes as well fast or too slow for the atmospheric condition and when he talks his talk is forever about somewhere else, something else. He's here but he's non hither. He rejects the here, he'southward unhappy with it, wants to exist further up the trail but when he gets at that place will be just as unhappy because then *information technology* will exist "here". What he's looking for, what he wants, is all effectually him, simply he doesn't want that because information technology *is* all around him. Every step'southward an endeavour, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere well-nigh every bit important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are non fought over them because verbalized statements near reality are never presumed to be reality itself."
― Zen and the Fine art of Motorbike Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Fine art of Motorbike Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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