Sunday, February 24, 2013

End of superiority, inferiority, and equality is end to suffering

“one who has truly penetrated this threefold conceit of superiority, inferiority, and equality is said to have put an end to suffering.”

- The Buddha (Source)

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Natural scenery in a camera

"This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it's gone."

- Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig 

On how a beautiful natural scenery cannot be completely captured in a camera.


Sunday, February 10, 2013

Maintaining Personality

"Each machine has its own, unique personality which probably could be defined as the intuitive sum total of everything you know and feel about it.  This personality constantly changes, usually for the worse, but sometimes surprisingly for the better, and it is this personality that is the real object of motorcycle maintenance. The new ones start out as good-looking strangers and, depending on how they are treated, degenerate rapidly into bad-acting grouches or even cripples, or else turn into healthy, good-natured, long-lasting friends."

- Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig


Saturday, February 09, 2013

If somene's ungrateful

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

- Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig