Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 16

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event type discourse
date & time 15 Apr 1987 pm
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 42min. Quality: good.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise.
online video
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle ZARA216
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. During leaving (video from 1:43:07) Osho is leading a Stop! Meditation.
The sutra
Of the spirit of gravity part 2
Man is difficult to discover, most of all to himself; the spirit often tells lies about the soul....
But he has discovered himself who says: This is my good and evil: he has silenced thereby the mole and dwarf who says: 'Good for all, evil for all.'
Truly, I dislike also those who call everything good and this world the best of all. I call such people the all-contented.
All-contentedness that knows how to taste everything: that is not the best taste! I honour the obstinate, fastidious tongues and stomachs that have learned to say 'I' and 'yes' and 'no'....
Deep yellow and burning red: that is to my taste -- it mixes blood with all colors. But he who whitewashes his house betrays to me a whitewashed soul....
I also call wretched those who always have to wait -- they offend my taste: all tax-collectors and shopkeepers and kings and other keepers of lands and shops.
Truly, I too have learned to wait, I have learned it from the very heart, but only to wait for myself. And above all I have learned to stand and to walk and to run and to jump and to climb and to dance.
This, however, is my teaching: he who wants to learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and to walk and to run and to climb and to dance -- you cannot learn to fly by flying!...
I came to my truth by diverse paths and in diverse ways: it was not upon a single ladder that I climbed to the height where my eyes survey my distances.
And I have asked the way only unwillingly -- that has always offended my taste! I have rather questioned and attempted the ways themselves.
All my progress has been an attempting and a questioning -- and truly, one has to learn how to answer such questioning! That however -- is to my taste:
Not good taste, not bad taste, but my taste, which I no longer conceal and of which I am no longer ashamed.
'This -- is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way -- does not exist!
... Thus spake Zarathustra.


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