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To: NEWwoman

There was once a book that compared Motorcycle Maintenance with the Zen Religion. I seem to be able to find many more Biblical themes than “Zen” themes. :-)

But maybe that’s just me.


9 posted on 08/18/2019 9:54:00 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site

It’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig . One of my favorite books. He passed away in 2017. But he was an English professor at my alma mater - Montana State University.

One thing that stood out for me was his search for Quality. Could not define it or nail it down to a set of rules. Went nuts trying to do that. Then he had his epiphany. Quality is the Buddha. Or in the West, God is Good.

That was an ah-hah moment for me. We know what quality is when we experience it, but our words cannot define exactly what it is. Quality is an attribute of God. Like Love, Truth, Beauty... Us finite beings cannot contain the infinite.


11 posted on 08/18/2019 2:10:27 PM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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