Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

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Cliches and beatniks such as ' beatnik' and ' hippie' have been invented for anti-technologists, anti-system people, and will continue to be ! But one does not convert distinct individuals into 'mass people' by simply using a ' mass' word.
John and Sylvia are not mass people and neither are others - who are going their way. It's against ' being a mass person' that they seem to be revolting ! They believe , technology has got a lot to do with the forces that are trying to turn them into 'mass people' ( from assembly line of production), that they don't like it. So far, their resistance to technology is passive.

But their hatred of technology and flight from it, I think, is self defeating. Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite comfortably in the degital circuits of a computer , or gears of a motor cycle, as he does, on the top of the mountain or on the petals of a lotus.
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posted by Borrowed Wisdom @ 8:55 AM