Quotes on Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. Occasionally some students do arrive for an education but rote and mechanical nature of the institution soon converts them to a less idealic attitude

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

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.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.