All 8 Uses of
trinity
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Although there's no logical objection to a metaphysical trinity, a three-headed reality, such trinities are not common or popular.†
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- He was heard along the corridors and up and down the stairs of Montana Hall singing softly to himself, almost under his breath, "Holy, holy, holy —blessed Trinity."†
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- He knew the metaphysical trinity of subject, object and Quality would sooner or later have to be interrelated but he was in no hurry about it.†
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- Although there's no logical objection to a metaphysical trinity, a three-headed reality, such trinities are not common or popular.†
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- Believe me, when the world is seen not as a duality of mind and matter but as a trinity of quality, mind, and matter, then the art of motorcycle maintenance and other arts take on a dimension of meaning they never had.†
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- Now, armed with his new time-interrelated metaphysical trinity, he had that romantic-classic Quality split, the one which had threatened to ruin him, completely stopped.†
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- He then proceeded in terms of the trinity to answer the question, Why does everybody see Quality differently?†
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- He was no longer talking about a metaphysical trinity but an absolute monism.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(trinity as in: the Christian trinity) Christian description of three simultaneous forms of God: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit (that provides strength and guidance to Christians)
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(2)
(trinity as in: trinity of ideas) three people or things considered as a unit
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus