The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there
Robert M. Pirsig
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.
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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
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Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty..
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There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere.
To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.
The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really isemotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty.
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