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arms, and then another laig, and then over on one side Jake's head, and I says, "By crickey! Something musta happened to Jake!"'
That's what has happened to humanity. Something has happened. Man has been cut into parts. There are now specialists: somebody takes care of the eyes and somebody takes care of the heart and somebody takes care of the head and somebody takes care of something else. Man is divided.
Zen says man is a total organism.
In modern science a new concept is becoming very prevalent -- they call it androgeny. Buckminster Fuller has defined androgeny as the characteristic of a whole system, an organism. An organism has something which is not just the sum total of its parts. It is called synergetic -- that is, more than the simple sum of its parts. When these parts are united in a functioning whole, in a working order, a synergetic dividend appears -- the 'tick'. You can open a clock and you separate everything -- the tick disappears. You put the parts together again in a functioning order -- the tick appears again. The tick is something very new. No single part can be made responsible for it; no single part had it. It is the whole that ticks.
That tick is the soul. You take my hand away, you take my leg away, you take my head away, and the tick disappears. The tick is the very soul. But the tick remains only in an organic unity.
God is the tick of this whole existence. You cannot find God by dissecting, God can be found only in a poetic vision of unity. God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it -- only a poetic approach, a very passive, a very loving approach, can. When you fall en rapport with existence, when you are no more separate as a seeker, when you are no more separate as a watcher, when you are no more separate as an observer, when you are lost into it, utterly lost it is there, the tick.
The third thing: Zen is not science but magic. But it is not the magic of the magicians, it is magic as a way to look into life. Science is intellectual. It is an effort to destroy the mystery of life. It kills the wonder. It is against the miraculous. Zen is all
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