"Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals".

There isn't any other test. That is what Phædrus, the poor surgeon, was trying to do. You're completely in contact with it all. The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them.

Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Although the book was written several decades ago, this observation is extremely relevant today, as people spend so much time looking down at their cellphones that they never remember to look up from them. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. It is also a developed reference from a Bible quotation, "Judge not, lest ye be judged"; do not look for change to come in the world into a vacuum.

If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live .

Boredom means you're off the Quality track, you're not seeing thing freshly, you've lost your "beginner's mind.". The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other.

Find the quotes you need in Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, sortable by theme, character, or chapter. What we have here is a conflict of visions of reality.

Notes & Quotes: Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss, M.D. Intermittent [setbacks] become gumption traps when they fool you into thinking you've really got the machine fixed.
You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance pt. That's why we get stuck.

He’s likely to miss a beautiful passage of sunlight through the trees.

Pay attention to adequate lighting. But when you try to say what the quality is, apart from the things that have it, it all goes poof! Yes or no confirms or denies a hypothesis.

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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.”, “Quality...you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is.

What we call workability of the machine is just an objectification of this peace of mind. ', and 'The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. He was after something and he used the knife because that was the only tool he had. To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. If you haven’t got it, there’s no way the motorcycle can possibly be fixed.
That’s the way John sees it. When beginning a repair job you can list everything you're going to do on little slips of paper which you then organize into proper sequence.

Suppose a child is born devoid of all senses; he has no sight, no hearing, no touch, no smell, no taste -- nothing. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors. chapter, The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire.

When the world is seen not as a duality of mind and matter but as a trinity of quality, mind, and matter, then the art of motorcycle maintenance and other arts take on a dimension of meaning they never had. Quotes from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

If no one knows what it is, then for all practical purposes it doesn’t exist at all.

An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. Gandhi once said, "Be the change you wish to see in the world", and this quote is expressing the same sentiment, but in a more formal and step-by-step way. “The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. It’s all a ghost, and in antiquity was so recognized as a ghost, the whole blessed world we live in.…Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.”, “Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire.

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

But if you can’t say what Quality is, how do you know what it is, or how do you know that it even exists? This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct. Not pristine "virtue." Now, with the definition blocked, the classic mind was forced to view Quality as the romantic did, undistorted by thought structures. But that’s self-contradictory. In the process of examining the train and subdividing it into parts we've inadvertently stopped it, so that it really isn't a train we are examining.

It’s bound to happen. Welcome back. It’s this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.”. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)".