Pirsig's pearls

[greyl]

· Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a 30,000 page menu and no food.

· The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

· Traditional scientific method has always been, at the very best, 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

· Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?









· The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. And what is good, and what is not good, need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

I wore out three copies of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

[judeling]

2. I gave him a wireless mike for a lecture

it was the first time he ever had one. It was like a kid on Christmas morning. He spent at least the first fifteen minutes just having fun talking about it an basically running around the stage.
A lot of joy bottled in there.