Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 20
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 17 Apr 1987 pm |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 46min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 57min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA220 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. During leaving (video from 1:47:50) Osho is leading a Stop! Meditation.
- The sutra
- The convalescent
- One morning not long after his return to his cave, Zarathustra passes through a period of seven days when he is as dead. When he finally comes to himself, he finds he is surrounded by fruits and sweet-smelling herbs brought to him by his animals. On seeing him awake, his animals ask Zarathustra if he would not now step out into the world which is waiting for him: 'The wind is laden with heavy fragrance that longs for you and all the brooks would like to run after you,' they tell him....
- For behold, o Zarathustra! New lyres are needed for your new songs.
- Sing and bubble over, o Zarathustra, heal your soul with new songs, so that you may bear your great destiny, that was never yet the destiny of any man!
- For your animals well know, o Zarathustra, who you are and must become: behold, you are the teacher of the eternal recurrence, that is now your destiny!
- That you have to be the first to teach this doctrine -- how should this great destiny not also be your greatest danger!
- Behold, we know what you teach: that all things recur eternally and we ourselves with them, and that we have already existed an infinite number of times before and all things with us.
- You teach that there is a great year of becoming, a colossus of a year: this year must, like an hour-glass, turn itself over again and again, so that it may run down and run out anew: so that all these years resemble one another, in the greatest things and in the smallest, so that we ourselves resemble ourselves in each great year, in the greatest things and in the smallest.
- And if you should die now, o Zarathustra: behold, we know too what you would then say to yourself -- but your animals ask you not to die yet!
- You would say -- and without trembling, but rather gasping for happiness: for a great weight and oppression would have been lifted from you, most patient of men!
- '"Now I die and decay," you would say, "and in an instant I shall be nothingness. Souls are as mortal as bodies.
- But the complex of causes in which I am entangled will recur -- it will create me again! I myself am part of these causes of the eternal recurrence.
- I shall return, with this sun, with this earth, with this eagle, with this serpent -- not to a new life or a better life or a similar life:
- I shall return eternally to this identical and self-same life, in the greatest things and in the smallest, to teach once more the eternal recurrence of all things, to speak once more the teaching of the great noontide of earth and man, to tell man of the superman once more.
- I spoke my teaching, I broke upon my teaching: thus my eternal fate will have it -- as prophet do I perish!
- Now the hour has come when he who is going down shall bless himself. Thus -- ends Zarathustra's down-going."'
- When the animals had spoken these words they fell silent and expected that Zarathustra would say something to them: but Zarathustra did not hear that they were silent. On the contrary, he lay still with closed eyes like a sleeper, although he was not asleep: for he was conversing with his soul. The serpent and the eagle, however, when they found him thus silent, respected the great stillness around him and discreetly withdrew.
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