Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 08

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event type discourse
date & time 11 Apr 1987 pm
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 2h 3min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise.
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle ZARA208
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. During leaving (video from 1:51:50) Osho is leading a Stop! Meditation.
The sutra
The wanderer
Zarathustra speaks to himself:
I am a wanderer and a mountain-climber... I do not like the plains and it seems I cannot sit still for long.
And whatever may yet come to me as fate and experience -- a wandering and a mountain-climbing will be in it: in the final analysis one experiences only oneself.
The time has passed when accidents could befall me; and what could still come to me that was not already my own?
It is returning, at last it is coming home to me -- my own self and those parts of it that have long been abroad and scattered among all things and accidents.
And I know one thing more: I stand now before my last summit and before the deed that has been deferred the longest. Alas, I have to climb my most difficult path! Alas, I have started upon my loneliest wandering!
But a man of my sort does not avoid such an hour: the hour that says to him: 'Only now do you read your path of greatness! Summit and abyss -- they are now united in one!
You are treading your path of greatness: now what was formerly your ultimate danger has become your ultimate refuge!...
You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: impossibility.
And when all footholds disappear, you must know how to climb upon your own head: how could you climb upward otherwise?
Upon your own head and beyond your own heart! Now the gentlest part of you must become the hardest....
In order to see much one must learn to look away from oneself -- every mountain-climber needs this hardness.
But he who, seeking enlightenment, is over-eager with his eyes, how could he see more of a thing than its foreground!
You, however, o Zarathustra, have wanted to behold the ground of things and their background: so you must climb above yourself -- up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you!'
Yes! To look down upon myself and even upon my stars: that alone would I call my summit, that has remained for me as my ultimate summit!...
Man, however, is the most courageous animal: with his courage he has overcome every animal. With a triumphant shout he has even overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the deepest pain.
Courage also destroys giddiness at abysses: and where does man not stand at an abyss? Is seeing itself not -- seeing abysses?
Courage is the best destroyer: courage also destroys pity. Pity, however, is the deepest abyss: as deeply as man looks into life, so deeply does he look also into suffering.
Courage, however, is the best destroyer, courage that attacks: it destroys even death, for it says: 'Was that life? Well then! Once more!'
But there is a great triumphant shout in such a saying. He who has ears to hear, let him hear....
... Thus spake Zarathustra.


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