Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 14
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 14 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 59min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA214 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. During leaving (video from 1:48:42) Osho is leading a Stop! Meditation.
- The sutra
- Of the three evil things
- ... I will now place the three most evil things upon the scales and weigh them well and humanly....
- Sensual pleasure, lust for power, selfishness: these three have hitherto been cursed the most and held in the worst and most unjust repute -- these three will I weigh well and humanly....
- Sensual pleasure: a sweet poison only to the withered, but to the lion-willed the great restorative and reverently-preserved wine of wines.
- Sensual pleasure: the great symbolic happiness of a higher happiness and highest hope....
- To many that are stranger to one another than man and woman: and who has fully conceived how strange man and woman are to one another!...
- Lust for power: the scourge of fire of the hardest-hearted; the cruel torment reserved by the cruelest for himself; the dark flame of living bonfires....
- Lust for power: before its glance man crawls and bends and toils and becomes lower than the swine or the snake -- until at last the cry of the great contempt burst from him....
- Lust for power: which, however, rises enticingly even to the pure and the solitary and up to self-sufficient heights, glowing like a love that paints purple delights enticingly on earthly heavens.
- Lust for power: but who shall call it lust, when the height longs to stoop down after power! Truly, there is no sickness and lust in such a longing and descent!
- That the lonely height may not always be solitary and sufficient to itself; that the mountain may descend to the valley and the wind of the heights to the lowlands -- oh who shall find the rightful baptismal and virtuous name for such a longing! 'Bestowing virtue' -- that is the name Zarathustra once gave the unnameable.
- And then it also happened -- and truly, it happened for the first time! -- that his teaching glorified selfishness, the sound, healthy selfishness that issues from a mighty soul -- from a mighty soul, to which pertains the exalted body, the beautiful, victorious, refreshing body, around which everything becomes a mirror....
- It banishes from itself all that is cowardly; it says: bad -- that is to say, cowardly!...
- Timid mistrustfulness seems base to it, as do all who desire oaths....
- Entirely hateful and loathsome to it is he who will never defend himself, who swallows down poisonous spittle and evil looks, the too-patient man who puts up with everything, is content with everything: for that is the nature of slaves.
- Whether one be servile before gods and divine kicks, or before men and the silly opinions of men: it spits at slaves of all kinds, this glorious selfishness!...
- ... To ill-use selfishness -- precisely that has been virtue and called virtue. And 'selfless' -- that is what, with good reason, all these world-weary cowards... wished to be!
- But now the day, the transformation, the sword of judgment, the great noontide comes to them all: then many things shall be revealed!
- And he who declares the ego healthy and holy and selfishness glorious -- truly, he, a prophet, declares too what he knows: 'Behold, it comes, it is near, the great noontide!'
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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