Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 06

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event type discourse
date & time 10 Apr 1987 pm
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 55min. Quality: good.
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
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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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