Be a Verb, Not a Noun

OSHO





The atheist says there's no god, but when I say there's no god, and atheists like Charvaka, Karl Marx, Lenin and Epicurus say there's no god, there is a big difference between my statement and their statement.Because, I say at the same moment, that there is godliness.The world consists of verbs, not of nouns. You see the river.You call it a river -you have made it a noun. It is rivering. It will be more accurate to the existential to say that it is rivering, flowing. And everything is changing, flowing. The child is becoming a young man; the young man is becoming old; life is turning into death; death is turning into life. Everything is in continuity , continuous change; it is a continuum. There never comes a full stop. It comes only in language. In existence, there is no full stop.
When you say `god', you are using a noun, something static, dead. When I say `godliness', I'm using a word for something alive, flowing, moving. So, these points have to be clear to you.God -who is perfect, absolute, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent -is dead, cannot be alive, cannot breathe. I reject such a god, because with such a dead god, this whole universe will be dead.
Godliness is a totally different dimension. Then the greenness in the tree, then the flowering of the rose, then the bird in flight -all are part of it. Then god is not separate from the universe. Then the universe is vibrating, pulsating, breathing godliness.