This paper argues that""contrary to visions of computer code as a culture-less series of absolute and ideologically empty "signals"""a great deal of the basic, "hidden" language running our digital interfaces today emerged within an ideological and cultural construct with a genealogy reaching back to the first moments of cybernetic computationalism. Specifically, I show how the prestige of CSS ("Cascading Style Sheets") as the design code of choice for the architects of Web 2.0 (particularly in the wildly popular www.csszengarden.com and its accompanying design volume by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag) relies on the discursive influence of a "cybernetic zen" tradition with its roots in postwar comparativism, including writers like FSC Northrop (in The Meeting of East and West, 1946), Alan Watts (in The Way of Zen, 1958), and Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974). The characterization of HTML code as allowing only "rigidly enforced grids that impede the design process" in contrast to the "spontaneous and fluid" powers of the more "Zen" CSS is only the latest version of a post-industrial, orientalist discourse that brings together notions of Eastern mysticism and Western "machines of loving grace." It is not enough, in other words, to understand that the real heir to Ezra Pound's modernist orientalism (with its fascistic control of the aesthetic) is the contemporary hardware guru, Steve Jobs. One must also see that the coded, internal structures of our contemporary "Buddha Machines" are inscribed with highly cultural assumptions as well.