"Everything is changing if you look at life. If you watch life, then Heraclitus is right: you cannot step in the same river twice, because the river is constantly flowing, changing. Old Heraclitus says: The only thing that never changes is change. Only change is constant, otherwise everything is changing.
In fact, life is not a noun but a verb. If one day we want to be really scientific about our language, we will have to drop all nouns. A really scientific language will consist only of verbs. You see these trees all around and you think, "Beautiful trees!" But to call a tree 'a tree' is not true, because a tree is not something static - it is a movement. By the time you utter the word 'tree' it has changed. It is no more the same tree about which you were talking One dead leaf has fallen, a new leaf is just growing, a bud is opening. The tree is growing higher - each moment! Otherwise how is it going to grow?
To be exactly true about it, it is better to call it 'treeing' rather than 'a tree'. But we even call a river 'a river' - a river is a rivering. It is a constant change! Life is not really life but only living - there is no life as such but only living. Our languages give us a very wrong notion of the world. There is nothing like love, but loving.
Always remember... we have to use nouns because otherwise it will be very difficult to explain things to each other. For centuries we have used nouns. But whenever you use the word 'love', remember it is 'loving' - it is a process. It is not a thing, constant."
Osho ,
The Fish in the Sea is not Thirsty #9
Thursday 30 July 2009
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