After reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance this was hard to get into. The way in which it is written is a bit off putting and hard to wrap your head around. When I read sections 1-3 I was focused mostly on how hard it was to read and not so much on what he was saying. Having now read 4-6 I can start to pay attention to the meaning of the text.
There were several things that I felt tied back to Zen. In 4 Augustine says this: "How can we love anything but the beautiful? What, then, is a beautiful thing or beauty itself? What entices and satisfies us in what we love? Can anything compel us that is not beautiful and fitting?"
This sounds like the idea of Quality in Zen. A beautiful thing has quality right?
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