Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 16
event type | discourse |
date & time | 15 Apr 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 42min. Quality: inferior (under revision). Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | ZARA216 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. During leaving (video from 1:43:07) Osho is leading a Stop! Meditation.
- The sutra
- Of the spirit of gravity part 2
- Man is difficult to discover, most of all to himself; the spirit often tells lies about the soul....
- But he has discovered himself who says: This is my good and evil: he has silenced thereby the mole and dwarf who says: 'Good for all, evil for all.'
- Truly, I dislike also those who call everything good and this world the best of all. I call such people the all-contented.
- All-contentedness that knows how to taste everything: that is not the best taste! I honour the obstinate, fastidious tongues and stomachs that have learned to say 'I' and 'yes' and 'no'....
- Deep yellow and burning red: that is to my taste -- it mixes blood with all colors. But he who whitewashes his house betrays to me a whitewashed soul....
- I also call wretched those who always have to wait -- they offend my taste: all tax-collectors and shopkeepers and kings and other keepers of lands and shops.
- Truly, I too have learned to wait, I have learned it from the very heart, but only to wait for myself. And above all I have learned to stand and to walk and to run and to jump and to climb and to dance.
- This, however, is my teaching: he who wants to learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and to walk and to run and to climb and to dance -- you cannot learn to fly by flying!...
- I came to my truth by diverse paths and in diverse ways: it was not upon a single ladder that I climbed to the height where my eyes survey my distances.
- And I have asked the way only unwillingly -- that has always offended my taste! I have rather questioned and attempted the ways themselves.
- All my progress has been an attempting and a questioning -- and truly, one has to learn how to answer such questioning! That however -- is to my taste:
- Not good taste, not bad taste, but my taste, which I no longer conceal and of which I am no longer ashamed.
- 'This -- is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way -- does not exist!
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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