Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 18

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event type discourse
date & time 16 Apr 1987 pm
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 50min. Quality: good.
Live music after the discourse.
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video Available, duration 2h 1min. Quality: good.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle ZARA218
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. During leaving (video from 1:52:35) Osho is leading a Stop! Meditation.
The sutra
Of old and new law-tables part 2
When water is planked over so that it can be walked upon, when gangway and railings span the stream: truly, he is not believed who says: 'Everything is in flux.'
On the contrary, even simpletons contradict him. 'What?' say the simpletons, 'everything in flux? But there are planks and railings over the stream!
Over the stream everything is firmly fixed, all the values of things, the bridges, concepts, all "good" and "evil": all are firmly fixed!'
But when hard winter comes, the animal-tamer of streams, then even the cleverest learn mistrust; and truly, not only the simpletons say then: 'Is not everything meant to -- stand still?'
'Fundamentally, everything stands still' -- that is a proper winter doctrine, a fine thing for unfruitful seasons, a fine consolation for hibernators and stay-at-homes.
'Fundamentally, everything stands still' -- the thawing wind, however, preaches to the contrary!...
O my brothers, is everything not now in flux? Have not all railings and gangways fallen into the water and come to nothing? Who can still cling to 'good' and 'evil'?...
'You shall not steal! You shall not kill' -- such words were once called holy; in their presence people bowed their knees and their heads and removed their shoes.
But I ask you: Where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been?
Is there not in all life itself -- stealing and killing? And when such words were called holy was not truth itself -- killed?
Or was it a sermon of death that called holy that which contradicted and opposed all life? -- o my brothers, shatter, shatter the old law-tables!...
... Thus spake Zarathustra.


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