Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 08
event type | discourse |
date & time | 11 Apr 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good, but a constant noise and questions are inferior (under revision). Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 3min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | ZARA208 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. During leaving (video from 1:51:50) Osho is leading a Stop! Meditation.
- The sutra
- The wanderer
- Zarathustra speaks to himself:
- I am a wanderer and a mountain-climber... I do not like the plains and it seems I cannot sit still for long.
- And whatever may yet come to me as fate and experience -- a wandering and a mountain-climbing will be in it: in the final analysis one experiences only oneself.
- The time has passed when accidents could befall me; and what could still come to me that was not already my own?
- It is returning, at last it is coming home to me -- my own self and those parts of it that have long been abroad and scattered among all things and accidents.
- And I know one thing more: I stand now before my last summit and before the deed that has been deferred the longest. Alas, I have to climb my most difficult path! Alas, I have started upon my loneliest wandering!
- But a man of my sort does not avoid such an hour: the hour that says to him: 'Only now do you read your path of greatness! Summit and abyss -- they are now united in one!
- You are treading your path of greatness: now what was formerly your ultimate danger has become your ultimate refuge!...
- You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: impossibility.
- And when all footholds disappear, you must know how to climb upon your own head: how could you climb upward otherwise?
- Upon your own head and beyond your own heart! Now the gentlest part of you must become the hardest....
- In order to see much one must learn to look away from oneself -- every mountain-climber needs this hardness.
- But he who, seeking enlightenment, is over-eager with his eyes, how could he see more of a thing than its foreground!
- You, however, o Zarathustra, have wanted to behold the ground of things and their background: so you must climb above yourself -- up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you!'
- Yes! To look down upon myself and even upon my stars: that alone would I call my summit, that has remained for me as my ultimate summit!...
- Man, however, is the most courageous animal: with his courage he has overcome every animal. With a triumphant shout he has even overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the deepest pain.
- Courage also destroys giddiness at abysses: and where does man not stand at an abyss? Is seeing itself not -- seeing abysses?
- Courage is the best destroyer: courage also destroys pity. Pity, however, is the deepest abyss: as deeply as man looks into life, so deeply does he look also into suffering.
- Courage, however, is the best destroyer, courage that attacks: it destroys even death, for it says: 'Was that life? Well then! Once more!'
- But there is a great triumphant shout in such a saying. He who has ears to hear, let him hear....
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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