lied (vii)

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 for it: for the miraculous, for the mysterious.

The life mystery has not to be solved. Because it cannot be solved. 

It has to be lived. 

One has to move into it. Cherish it. 

It is a great joy that life is a mystery. 

It has to be celebrated.

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Zen is magic. 

It gives you the key to open the miraculous. 

And the miraculous is in you. 

And the key is also in you.

When you come to a Zen Master... 

he simply helps you to be silent. 

So that you can find yóur key... 

which you are carrying all along the way. 

And you can find yóur door - which is there - 

and you can enter into your ówn... 

innermost shrine.

~osho~

zen path of paradox (i)

(1977) - chapter 1