tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137233562011-09-15T22:54:47.101-07:00"Zen and the art of.." is one of the great, thought provoking books I ever read. And re-read. It's worth being a life time reference manual. In this blog are the excerpts, painstakingly typed from the book. Thanks to Robert M.Pirsig, the author. Their interactive site : http://www.moq.orgBorrowed Wisdomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15291397321945101606noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13723356.post-1118937892196742062005-06-16T08:55:00.000-07:002005-06-16T09:04:52.200-07:00Cliches 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.<br />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.<br /><br />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.<br />( page :16 ; zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance )<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13723356-111893789219674206?l=chautauqua-zen.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Borrowed Wisdomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15291397321945101606noreply@blogger.com5