What is the significance of the word 'God' in spiritual discourse?
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"God' is not a person or a supreme engineer; it is a beautiful code-word for the totality of existence, innocent and free from the dogma that has dirtied it."
According to Osho, 'God' is a neutral, beautiful code-word meaning 'that which is'—the whole, the totality of existence—not a person or supreme engineer. Its misuse by priests and ideologies dirtied it, but the word itself is innocent. Both theist and atheist miss this. Free it from dogma and let it point to all that is.
‘God’ just means everything that exists right now, not a person in the sky.
Why this matters practically
- Avoid fights over labels; look directly at reality.
- Loosen dogmatic conditioning and relate to life as a whole.
- Use language as a pointer, not a prison, in spiritual practice.
- Loosen dogmatic conditioning and relate to life as a whole.
- Use language as a pointer, not a prison, in spiritual practice.
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