Zen and the Art of: (substitute any verb)

Robert Pirsig, author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", has died.  He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, and suffered much while undergoing treatments available at that time: electroshock, harsh drugs. He himself regarded his catatonic schizophrenia as the state of Buddhist enlightenment.

“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,” he wrote. “To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha—which is to demean oneself.”