Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

That is impractical, but practicality isn’t the whole thing with gloves or with anything else.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite 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 or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha—which is to demean oneself.

But there are human forces stronger than logic. There always have been, and if they become strong enough in their hatred of technology that web can break.

You can prove the practicality of planned parenthood till you get tired of listening to yourself and it’s going to go nowhere because your antagonist isn’t buying the assumption that anything socially practical is good per se. Goodness for him has other sources which he values as much as or more than social practicality.

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.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.

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