Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 04
event type | discourse |
date & time | 9 Apr 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 2h 20min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 31min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise. Video of Osho leaving is not good. Incomplete: missing at the end Osho getting up out of his chair (under revision). |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | ZARA204 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. During leaving (video from 2:20:50) Osho is leading a Stop! Meditation.
- The sutra
- Of poets
- 'Since I have known the body better,' said Zarathustra to one of his disciples, 'the spirit has been only figuratively spirit to me; and all that is "intransitory" -- that too has been only an "image"'.
- 'I heard you say that once before,' answered the disciple, 'and then you added: "but the poets lie too much." Why did you say that the poets lie too much?'
- 'Why?' said Zarathustra. 'You ask why? I am not one of those who may be questioned about their why.
- Do my experiences date from yesterday? It is a long time since I experienced the reasons for my opinions.
- Should I not have to be a barrel of memory, if I wanted to carry my reasons, too, about with me?
- It is already too much for me to retain even my opinions; and many a bird has flown away....
- Yet what did Zarathustra once say to you? That the poets lie too much? -- but Zarathustra too is a poet.
- Do you now believe that he spoke the truth? Why do you believe it?'
- The disciple answered: 'I believe in Zarathustra.' But Zarathustra shook his head and smiled.
- Belief does not make me blessed (he said), least of all belief in myself.
- But granted that someone has said in all seriousness that the poets lie too much: he is right -- we do lie too much.
- We know too little and are bad learners: so we have to lie....
- And we believe in the people and its 'wisdom' as if there were a special secret entrance to knowledge which is blocked to him who has learned anything....
- Alas, there are so many things between heaven and earth of which only the poets have let themselves dream!
- And especially above heaven: for all gods are poets' images, poets' surreptitiousness!
- Truly it draws us ever upward -- that is, to cloudland: we set our motley puppets on the clouds and then call them gods and supermen....
- Alas, how weary I am of the unattainable that is supposed to be reality. Alas, how weary I am of the poets!...
- This speech makes Zarathustra's disciples angry and they are silent -- silent too is Zarathustra, until at length he sighs and says:
- I am of today and of the has-been... but there is something in me that is of tomorrow and of the day-after-tomorrow and of the shall-be.
- I have grown weary of the poets, the old and the new: they all seem to me superficial and shallow seas.
- They have not thought deeply enough: therefore their feeling -- has not plumbed the depths....
- The poet's spirit wants spectators, even if they are only buffaloes!
- But I have grown weary of this spirit: and I see the day coming when it will grow weary of itself.
- Already I have seen the poets transformed: I have seen them direct their glance upon themselves.
- I have seen penitents of the spirit appearing: they grew out of the poets.
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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