One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, messmakers.
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What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent fabulously more coherent when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world.... ... but showing that, of course, was a very big job.Robert M. Pirsig
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths..
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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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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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