“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.”

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 1

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American writer and philosopher 1928–2017

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