Zen life is not to make himself but to grow that way. - Alan Watts

Wouldn't it be as farfetched to call birth the cause of death as to call the cat's head the cause of the tail? Lifting the neck of a bottle implies lifting the bottom as well, for the "two parts" come up at the same time. If I pick up an accordion by one end, the other will follow a little later, but the principle is the same. Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Actually, the world is not complex. It is the task of trying to figure it out with words or numbers that is complex.