Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 06
event type | discourse |
date & time | 10 Apr 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 55min. Quality: good, but a constant noise (under revision). Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 5min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | ZARA206 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. During leaving (video from 1:55:53) Osho is leading a Stop! Meditation.
- The sutra
- Of manly prudence
- It is not the height, it is the abyss that is terrible!
- The abyss where the glance plunges downward and the hand grasps upward. There the heart grows giddy through its twofold will.
- Ah, friends, have you, too, divined my heart's twofold will?...
- My will clings to mankind, I bind myself to mankind with fetters, because I am drawn up to the superman: for my other will wants to draw me up to the superman.
- That my hand may not quite lose its belief in firmness: that is why I live blindly among men, as if I did not recognize them....
- This is my first manly prudence: I let myself be deceived so as not to be on guard against deceivers....
- This, however, is my second manly prudence: I am more considerate to the vain than to the proud.
- Is wounded vanity not the mother of all tragedies? But where pride is wounded there surely grows up something better than pride.
- If life is to be pleasant to watch, its play must be well acted: for that, however, good actors are needed.
- I found all vain people to be good actors: they act and desire that others shall want to watch them -- all their spirit is in this desire....
- This, however, is my third manly prudence: I do not let your timorousness spoil my pleasure at the sight of the wicked....
- Among men, too, there is a fine brood of the hot sun and much that is marvellous in the wicked.
- Indeed, as your wisest man did not seem so very wise to me, so I found that human wickedness, too, did not live up to its reputation....
- Truly, there is still a future, even for evil!...
- And truly, you good and just! There is much in you that is laughable and especially your fear of him who was formerly called the 'devil'!
- Your souls are so unfamiliar with what is great that the superman would be fearful to you in his goodness!...
- You highest men my eyes have encountered! This is my doubt of you and my secret laughter: I think you would call my superman -- a devil!
- Alas, I grew weary of these highest and best men: from their 'heights' I longed to go up, out, away to the superman!
- A horror overcame me when I saw these best men naked: then there grew for me the wings to soar away into distant futures....
- But I want to see you disguised, you neighbors and fellowmen, and well-dressed and vain and worthy as 'the good and just.'
- And I myself will sit among you disguised, so that I may misunderstand you and myself: that, in fact, is my last manly prudence.
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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