Osho says, “An organism has something which is not just the sum total of its parts.”
In modern science a new concept is becoming very prevalent – they call it androgyny. Buckminster Fuller has defined androgyny 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.
Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol I, Ch 1
A quote published in The Book: An Introduction to the Teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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