Zarathustra A God That Can Dance ~ 16

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event type discourse
date & time 4 Apr 1987 am
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 0min. Quality: good.
Live music after the discourse.
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video Available, duration 2h 10min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise, music during Osho arriving is not good (under revision).
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shorttitle ZARA116
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synopsis
Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
The sutra
Of voluntary death
Many die too late and some die too early. Still the doctrine sounds strange: 'Die at the right time.'
Die at the right time: thus Zarathustra teaches.
To be sure, he who never lived at the right time could hardly die at the right time! Better if he were never to be born! -- thus I advise the superfluous.
But even the superfluous make a great thing of their dying; yes, even the hollowest nut wants to be cracked.
Everyone treats death as an important matter: but as yet death is not a festival. As yet, men have not learned to consecrate the fairest festivals.
I shall show you the consummating death, which shall be a spur and a promise to the living.
The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly....
To die thus is the best death; but the second best is: to die in battle and to squander a great soul.
But equally hateful to the fighter as to the victor is your grinning death, which comes creeping up like a thief -- and yet comes as master.
I commend to you my sort of death, voluntary death that comes to me because I wish it.
And when shall I wish it? -- he who has a goal and an heir wants death at the time most favorable to his goal and his heir....
Many a one grows too old even for his truths and victories; a toothless mouth has no longer the right to every truth.
And everyone who wants glory must take leave of honour in good time and practise the difficult art of -- going at the right time....
I wish preachers of speedy death would come! They would be the fitting storm and shakers of the trees of life! But I hear preached only slow death and patience with all 'earthly things'.
If one only remained in the desert and far from the good and just! Perhaps he would have learned to live and learned to love the earth -- and laughter as well!...
That your death may not be a blasphemy against man and the earth, my friends; that is what I beg from the honey of your soul.
In your death, your spirit and your virtue should still glow like a sunset glow around the earth: otherwise yours is a bad death.
Thus I want to die myself, that you friends may love the earth more for my sake; and I want to become earth again, that I may have peace in her who bore me.
Truly, Zarathustra had a goal, he threw his ball: now may you friends be the heirs of my goal, I throw the golden ball to you.
But best of all I like to see you, too, throwing on the golden ball, my friends! So I shall stay on earth a little longer: forgive me for it!
... Thus spake Zarathustra.


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