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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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.
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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What follows is based on actual occurences. However,it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual about motorcycles,either.
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