Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 15
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 15 Apr 1987, 8:00 |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 24min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 27min. Quality: good, but sound of Osho arriving is not good, a slight constant audio-noise, and noise during questions (under revision). |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA215 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Of the spirit of gravity part 1
- ... I am enemy to the spirit of gravity: and truly, mortal enemy, arch-enemy, born enemy!...
- I could sing a song about that -- and I will sing one, although I am alone in an empty house and have to sing it to my own ears.
- There are other singers, to be sure, whose voices are softened, whose hands are eloquent, whose eyes are expressive, whose hearts are awakened, only when the house is full: I am not one of them.
- He who will one day teach men to fly will have moved all boundary-stones; all boundary-stones will themselves fly into the air to him, he will baptize the earth anew -- as 'the weightless'.
- The ostrich runs faster than any horse, but even he sticks his head heavily into heavy earth: that is what the man who cannot yet fly is like.
- He calls earth and life heavy: and so will the spirit of gravity have it! But he who wants to become light and a bird must love himself -- thus do I teach.
- Not with the love of the sick and diseased, to be sure....
- One must learn to love oneself with a sound and healthy love, so that one may endure it with oneself and not go roaming about -- thus do I teach.
- Such roaming about calls itself 'love of one's neighbour': these words have been up to now the best for lying and dissembling, and especially for those who were oppressive to everybody.
- And truly, to learn to love oneself is no commandment for today or for tomorrow. Rather is this art the finest, subtlest, ultimate, and most patient of all....
- Almost in the cradle are we presented with heavy words and values: this dowry calls itself 'good' and 'evil'. For its sake we are forgiven for being alive.
- And we suffer little children to come to us, to prevent them in good time from loving themselves: the spirit of gravity is the cause of that.
- And we -- we bear loyally what we have been given upon hard shoulders over rugged mountains! And when we sweat we are told: 'Yes, life is hard to bear!'
- But only man is hard to bear! That is because he bears too many foreign things upon his shoulders. Like the camel, he kneels down and lets himself be well laden....
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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