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-- this is this, that is that -- and they go on and on. They are not in search of the organic unity of life, they are not in search of the ultimate principle of life that runs in the trees and the mountains and the stars and the animals and the birds and men and women. They are not in search of that unifying factor. That unifying factor is what religions have called the truth, what Buddha has called NIRVANA, what Jesus has called the kingdom of God.
You will not find, Wolfgang, any wisdom, any love in philosophy. Yes, you will find all kinds of beautiful answers, you will find all kinds of parrot-like information, facts, you will become very efficient in repeating them, in quoting them, but you will only be becoming a computer. That can be done better by a computer than by you.
Find out something within you which a computer cannot do and you will have found the right direction for your innermost being, for your freedom. That is the whole effort of Zen, that's what we are trying to do here. The computer cannot love; it can say "I love you," but you know that it is a computer. It can make all the gestures of love, but if suddenly the electricity goes..."Grrr, grrr, grrr," or if the battery runs out, first you have to replace the battery, then it will say "I love you."
But people are foolish and people are trying all kinds of things to make man more like a robot.
Just the other day I was reading this item in a newspaper: "Mundane Mating," Toronto, 25 February:
Men and women in future will have robot sexual partners, and erotic technology will offer them their hearts' desires: stimulants, aphrodisiacs, and chemical orgasms.
Sexologists concluded during a seminar here that men and women will still mate, but during well-defined periods. Some said that women will want the "profound and basic experience" of pregnancy without giving birth.
One sexologist said that sexual relations with robots will help to "supplement or enrich fantasy life and contribute to the establishment of a milieu which fosters rather than arrests sexual growth and development."
It is going to happen! In a way it has already happened. For thousands
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