Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 01
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 8 Apr 1987 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 14min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 23min. Quality: good, but the first few seconds, during Osho arriving, no sound. A slight constant audio-noise, video-noise at bottom of screen (under revision). |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA201 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Of the famous philosophers
- You have served the people and the people's superstitions, all you famous philosophers! -- you have not served truth! And it is precisely for that reason that they paid you reverence....
- And your heart always said to itself: 'I came from the people: God's voice, too, came to me from them.'
- You have always been obstinate and cunning, like the ass, as the people's advocate....
- Ah, for me to learn to believe in your 'genuineness', you would first have to break your will to venerate.
- Genuine -- that is what I call him who goes into God-forsaken deserts and has broken his venerating heart....
- ... But in the towns dwell the well-fed famous philosophers -- the draught animals.
- For they always, as asses, pull -- the people's cart!...
- You are still of the people even in your virtue, of the people with their purblind eyes -- of the people who do not know what spirit is!
- Spirit is the life that itself strikes into life: through its own torment it increases its own knowledge -- did you know that before?
- And this is the spirit's happiness: to be anointed and by tears consecrated as a sacrificial beast -- did you know that before?
- And the blindness of the blind man and his seeking and groping shall yet bear witness to the power of the sun into which he gazed -- did you know that before?
- And the enlightened man shall learn to build with mountains! It is a small thing for the spirit to move mountains -- did you know that before?
- You know only the sparks of the spirit: but you do not see the anvil which the spirit is, nor the ferocity of its hammer!
- In truth, you do not know the spirit's pride! But even less could you endure the spirit's modesty, if it should ever deign to speak!...
- You are no eagles: so neither do you know the spirit's joy in terror. And he who is not a bird shall not make his home above abysses.
- You are tepid: but all deep knowledge flows cold. The innermost wells of the spirit are ice-cold: a refreshment to hot hands and handlers.
- You stand there respectable and stiff and with a straight back, you famous philosophers! -- no strong wind or will propels you.
- Have you never seen a sail faring over the sea, rounded and swelling and shuddering before the impetuosity of the wind?
- Like a sail, shuddering before the impetuosity of the spirit, my wisdom fares over the sea -- my untamed wisdom!
- But you servants of the people, you famous philosophers -- how could you fare with me?
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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