Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 18
event type | discourse |
date & time | 16 Apr 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 50min. Quality: good, but a constant noise (under revision). 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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