Best put, technology should be considered as a part of nature's psychic framework such as that appearing in the Japanese Tea ceremony. Daisetz Suzuki puts it best:

The tea-drinking that is known as cha-no-yu in Japanese and as 'tea ceremony' or 'tea cult' in the West is not just drinking tea, but involves all the activities leading to it, all the utensils used in it, the entire atmosphere surrounding the procedure, an, last of all, what is really the most important phase, the frame of mind or spirit which mysteriously grows out of the combination of these factors.

The tea-drinking, therefore, is not just drinking tea, but it is the art of cultivating what might be called 'psychosphere,' or the psychic atmosphere, or the innere field of consciousness. We may say that it is generated within oneself, while sitting in a small semi-dark room with a low ceiling, irregualrly constructed, from he handling of the tea bowl, which is crudely formed but eloquent with the personality of the maker, and from listening to the sound of the boiling water in the iron kettle over a charcoal fire (Suzuki, 1959, n.p.)

Technical writing itself is a lot of effort for little reward in the thanks department. This is because for the most part, technical writing

What we must remember as technical writers is that ôa person maintaining his own machine is at a big advantageàbecause intermittent bugs are best studied by extended use of the product. The early days of PC Computing were filled with stories of individual programmers making heroic efforts to create the products that shaped the industry. The care with which they brought those early products to market is reminiscent of the care taken by a dedicated biker tweaking his idle and polishing his chrome. While those days may be gone from this industry forever, Pirsig's lessons for improving the quality of the man-machine relationship still apply.ö (Anderson, 1999, p. 1).

Western thought sees and depicts nature in man-made terms and symmetries among super-imposed forms. Eastern thought accepts the object as is and presents it for what it is, not what it is thought to mean. In technical writing, we must strive to achieve more of an acceptance of the technology for what it is, not what it will mean to the user. We must not clutter the reader with terms, forms and symmetries. For instance, when discussing the chip set on a PC sound card, we must let the technological dialogue of gigahertz and megawatts be left to the appendix. Sounds exist in opposition to silence and the PC sound card must reflect this basic fact. We should let the sound card speak for itse