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A GOD THAT CAN DANCE

Chapter 21: Of the compassionate

 

 

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BELOVED OSHO,

OF THE COMPASSIONATE

AS LONG AS MEN HAVE EXISTED, MAN HAS ENJOYED HIMSELF TOO LITTLE: THAT ALONE,

MY BROTHERS, IS OUR ORIGINAL SIN!

AND IF WE LEARN BETTER TO ENJOY OURSELVES, WE BEST UNLEARN HOW TO DO HARM

TO OTHERS AND TO CONTRIVE HARM.

THEREFORE I WASH MY HAND WHEN IT HAS HELPED A SUFFERER, THEREFORE I WIPE

MY SOUL CLEAN AS WELL.

FOR I SAWTHE SUFFERER SUFFER, AND BECAUSE I SAWIT IWAS ASHAMED ON ACCOUNT

OF HIS SHAME; AND WHEN I HELPED HIM, THEN I SORELY INJURED HIS PRIDE....

‘BE RESERVED IN ACCEPTING! HONOUR A MAN BY ACCEPTING FROM HIM!’ – THUS I

ADVISE THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE.

I, HOWEVER, AM A GIVER: I GIVE GLADLY AS A FRIEND TO FRIENDS. BUT STRANGERS

AND THE POOR MAY PLUCK THE FRUIT FROM MY TREE FOR THEMSELVES: IT CAUSES

LESS SHAME THAT WAY....

AND WE ARE THE MOST UNFAIR, NOT TOWARDS HIM WHOM WE DO NOT LIKE, BUT

TOWARDS HIM FOR WHOM WE FEEL NOTHING AT ALL.

BUT IF YOU HAVE A SUFFERING FRIEND, BE A RESTING-PLACE FOR HIS SUFFERING, BUT

A RESTING-PLACE LIKE A HARD BED, A CAMP-BED: THUS YOU WILL SERVE HIM BEST.

AND SHOULD YOUR FRIEND DO YOU A WRONG, THEN SAY: ‘I FORGIVE YOU WHAT YOU DID

TO ME; BUT THAT YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF – HOW COULD I FORGIVE THAT?’

THUS SPEAKS ALL GREAT LOVE: IT OVERCOMES EVEN FORGIVENESS AND PITY....

ALAS, WHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE THERE BEEN GREATER FOLLIES THAN WITH THE

COMPASSIONATE? AND WHAT IN THE WORLD HAS CAUSED MORE SUFFERING THAN THE

FOLLIES OF THE COMPASSIONATE?

WOE TO ALL LOVERS WHO CANNOT SURMOUNT PITY!

THUS SPOKE THE DEVIL TO ME ONCE: ‘EVEN GOD HAS HIS HELL: IT IS HIS LOVE FOR

MAN....’

SO BE WARNED AGAINST PITY: THENCE SHALL YET COME A HEAVY CLOUD FOR MAN!

TRULY, I UNDERSTAND WEATHER-SIGNS!

BUT MARK, TOO, THIS SAYING: ALL GREAT LOVE IS ABOVE PITY: FOR IT WANTS – TO

CREATE WHAT IS LOVED!

‘I OFFER MYSELF TO MY LOVE, AND MY NEIGHBOR AS MYSELF’ – THAT IS THE LANGUAGE

OF ALL CREATORS.

ALL CREATORS, HOWEVER, ARE HARD.

... THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA.

THE ORIGINAL SIN has been discussed almost by all religions. They all have different ideas about

it. The most prominent and prevalent is the Christian idea. According to Christianity, disobedience

is the original sin. The moment one decides that disobedience is the original sin, obedience

automatically becomes the greatest virtue. Obedience creates slaves. Obedience is a poison that

destroys all possibility of rebellion. Obedience is destructive, destructive of the very dignity of man.

The Christian story is beautiful, although an absolute lie. God, in the very beginning, had forbidden

man to eat from the trees of wisdom and of eternal life. The very idea seems to be absurd. On the

one hand God is the creator, the father, and on the other hand he is prohibiting his own children

from being wise and living eternally. There seems to be a great contradiction.

But the devil pursuades Eve to eat from the tree of wisdom, and his argument is absolutely rational,

human and tremendously significant. He says to Eve that if you don’t eat from the tree of wisdom

and from the tree of eternal life you will always remain animals; and God is afraid that if you eat from

the tree of wisdom and the tree of eternal life, you will become gods. He is jealous, jealous of his

own children. He is afraid. He does not want you to transcend your animal existence, he wants you

to remain ignorant, unconscious, dependent, while you have the potential of being equals of God.

His argument is so profound that it seems the Christian god is not behaving the way a god is

supposed to behave. On the contrary, the devil is behaving in a more divine way. In fact, the

word devil comes from a Sanskrit root which means divine. The word divine also comes from the

same root.

But Eve and Adam rebelled. And as God became aware that they had eaten the fruit of wisdom, he

immediately expelled them from the Garden of Eden, afraid that now they will eat from the other tree

which will make them eternal beings, immortal.

The story is significant in many ways, because the whole history of man is nothing but an enquiry

into gaining more and more wisdom, and an enquiry into finding the eternal sources of life.

All the religions have been trying to make it that man should not go against the commandments that

are coming from God, although the commandments are ugly. Man is expected to say yes in spite of

himself; only his obedience and faith are going to deliver him. This has made the whole of humanity

remain retarded, unevolved. Having all the treasures and yet living in misery, having all potential to

reach to the stars, but still crawling on the earth.

All the religions without exception have deprived man of his pride. And the moment man loses his

pride, his dignity, he loses his very soul; he falls below the human level of life to sub-human levels.

Zarathustra brings a new light as far as the original sin is concerned, and he seems to be the most

relevant and rational amongst all the other mystics of the world. What he says is so pure, so clear,

so undeniably true that it needs no argument to prove it; it is self-evident, it is self-luminous.

Says he, ”AS LONG AS MEN HAVE EXISTED, MAN HAS ENJOYED HIMSELF TOO LITTLE: THAT

ALONE, MY BROTHERS, IS OUR ORIGINAL SIN!” You have such an infinite capacity to enjoy the

whole rainbow of pleasures, happinesses, joys, and blessings. But all the religions have been telling

you: Renounce pleasures, renounce life, live as minimally as possible. Don’t live, just survive. And

this has become the way of their saints. This they call austerity, this they call discipline: to wash

away the original sin that Adam and Eve committed.

Zarathustra is exceptional, and can be understood only by very intelligent and very exceptional

people. That’s why there is not a great religion – as far as numbers are concerned – following

Zarathustra. There are millions of people who have not even heard his name, and he has given

greater original insights than anybody else.

Do you recognize the originality? He is saying the only original sin is that man has allowed himself

to enjoy too little! He has not lived totally, intensely, madly! He has not lived with his whole being, he

has not been orgasmic. And even if he has enjoyed a little bit, he has enjoyed it full of fear – he will

be punished for it. Torturing yourself is going to be rewarded in the other world; enjoying yourself

will lead you into an abysmal hell where you will be tortured eternally; forever and forever.

So even though man has enjoyed a little, there was fear; it was always half-hearted, he was never

total in it, he never got lost into it. The religions have not been able to take man away from pleasures

completely, but they have succeeded almost ninety-nine percent. And whatsoever has remained –

that one percent – they have poisoned it. You enjoyed, knowing perfectly well you are committing a

sin and you are paving a path towards hell.

And why does Zarathustra call it the original sin? Because a man who has not enjoyed at the

maximum, at the optimum, will not know what life is all about, will not know what is virtue,

will not know the significance and the beauty of existence. He will remain ignorant, he will

remain psychologically sick – because your whole nature is demanding pleasure and your mind,

contaminated by the priests, is holding you back.

Every man is in a strange tension. Nature wants to go in one direction and your religions want to

take you in the exact opposite direction. Your whole life becomes a fight with yourself. You become

your own enemy. And unless you know life in its heights – pleasures transforming into blissfulness,

enjoyment turning into ecstasies – you are committing an original sin against life itself.

AND IF WE LEARN BETTER TO ENJOY OURSELVES, WE BEST UNLEARN HOW TO DO HARM

TO OTHERS AND TO CONTRIVE HARM. Zarathustra comes to strange conclusions, from very

novel directions. Gautam Buddha says, ”Do not harm anybody. Do not hurt anybody, because that

is a sin.” Mahavira says, ”Violence of any kind is a sin.” Zarathustra comes to the same conclusion,

but his whole argument is more profound than Gautam Buddha and Mahavira.

AND IF WE LEARN BETTER TO ENJOY OURSELVES, WE BEST UNLEARN HOW TO DO HARM

TO OTHERS AND TO CONTRIVE HARM. I can say with absolute authority that once you are

blissful, you cannot harm anybody. Once you have known the eternity of life, and the joyous dance

of life, it is impossible for you to harm anyone – because there is no one other than you. We are not

separate islands; we are one continent, one single whole.

He is not making it a sin, he is not prohibiting you from harming others. He is simply saying, enjoy

yourself to the fullest and you will not harm others, because in your very enjoyment the idea of I and

thou disappears. There are no longer others; it is one life in millions of manifestations. In the trees,

in the animals, in human beings, in the stars – these are all manifestations of one life, one single life.

If we are harming anybody, we are harming ourselves. But this insight arises in you when you reach

to the highest peak of bliss. That’s why he says man’s original sin is: he has enjoyed himself too

little; and a man who has not enjoyed himself will not tolerate anybody else enjoying himself.

These are simple psychological facts. The man who is in pain, in anguish, in anxiety, in misery

cannot tolerate anybody else being blissful. It hurts. Why am I miserable and why are others not?

And if the whole of humanity is suffering, then to be blissful in this suffering humanity is to be

constantly in danger.

People would like to destroy you. You don’t belong to them, you are not miserable enough. You

are a stranger. Perhaps you are mad, because when the whole world is so miserable how can you

manage to laugh? How can you manage to dance and sing?

Just the other day Neelam brought many articles; a few for me, a few against me, a few neutral.

Every day she brings them. It is amazing. I don’t even read them. All over the world, in all the

languages people are taking so much trouble – writing for me, writing against me, writing neutrally,

being factual. In one article she simple read one line in it. Because I have been seeing them, she

feels embarrassed and hurt because people are writing absolute lies about me, not even a fragment

of truth in them. So she simply says, ”This is disgusting, nasty,” and throws it away. And before

throwing away that article, she said, ”This man is writing utter lies.”

One thing, in the beginning he says that I am the most disrespected and the most learned man of the

day. He will be shocked, whoever has written it, because I don’t want to be respected by sheep and

goats, by monkeys and donkeys, by pigs and pygmies. I have never in my life desired any respect.

I don’t consider the present humanity worthy enough to have its respect, it is enough to have its

disrespect. The men whom Zarathustra calls ”supermen” – perhaps they will be able to respect me

because they will be able to understand me. Even today there are a few people who understand

me; and then their respect is not only respect, it is love, it is devotion.

And as far as being the most learned, that man is absolutely wrong. I do not belong to the category

of the learned. My whole life has been based on a fundamental truth which can only be called

unlearning. Whatever the society has forced me to learn, through the schools and the colleges and

the universities, my work has been how to unlearn it; how to clean myself from all this junk, rubbish

and all kinds of crap. I am not a learned man. Perhaps I might be the most unlearned man in the

world. And I would hate to be respected by the present humanity – it does not have that intelligence,

nor has it that heart, nor has it that being.

Twenty-five centuries have passed and Zarathustra is not yet understood, is not even now loved and

respected. Perhaps the man who can love people like Zarathustra has yet to come. The clarity,

the intelligence, the silence which is needed to understand him is absolutely missing in present-day

human beings.

And the reason it is missing is that they have not allowed themselves to actualize all their potential.

They have not allowed themselves to go the way of nature, the way of the Tao, they have not allowed

themselves to flow with the stream. They have listened to wrong people, who have been teaching

them to swim upstream, in which they are going to be frustrated and they are going to be failures –

and then they become condemners. The moment a person fails in achieving his goal he becomes a

condemner. And because everybody has been told to make goals which are anti-life, anti-pleasure,

anti-nature – failure is absolutely certain.

These miserable people cannot understand a blissful man, and the man who has not known bliss

enjoys only one thing, the suffering of others. Every early morning he is waiting for the newspaper

just to know how many crimes have been committed, how many people have been murdered,

how many people have committed suicide. Because good news is no news, only something bad,

something disgusting is news. Anything natural is not news, howsoever beautiful it may be.

Just the opposite happens when you are blissful, you want everybody else to be blissful, too;

because your blissfulness becomes multiplied by everybody else being blissful too. Harming

anybody becomes simply impossible. It is not a discipline, it is not a vow that you have taken in

a temple according to any religion; it is a simple outcome of your own blissfulness; that you cannot

harm. You know life enjoys itself in being blissful, how can you destroy any other life? Just as you

enjoy, every form of life wants to enjoy.

Certainly, if everything around you is dancing and ecstatic, it is going to make your own ecstasy far

richer. The reward is here, now. Harming others becomes impossible, because it is harming your

own joy. And helping people to be blissful is not to be a service to them, but a service to yourself,

because their joy is going to enhance your joy. The more people are blissful in the world, the more

there is an atmosphere of celebration. In that atmosphere you can dance more easily, you can sing

more easily. This is a great contribution of Zarathustra.

THEREFORE I WASH MY HAND WHEN IT HAS HELPED A SUFFERER, THEREFORE I WIPE

MY SOUL CLEAN AS WELL.

FOR I SAWTHE SUFFERER SUFFER, AND BECAUSE I SAWIT IWAS ASHAMED ON ACCOUNT

OF HIS SHAME; AND WHEN I HELPED HIM, THEN I SORELY INJURED HIS PRIDE.

He is always original in seeing things. The same things have been seen by millions of people, but

Zarathustra finds an angle which is absolutely virgin. He is saying, ”Whenever I help somebody who

is suffering, I know I am hurting his pride, I know he is feeling shame that he is suffering. Because

of his shame I feel ashamed, and because I have helped him I have sorely injured his pride.”

Rather than expecting to have pleasures in heaven because I have helped somebody who is

suffering – opening an account in paradise, counting on one’s virtues – he says ”I wash my hand

because I have hurt somebody’s pride. I have seen him suffer, I have seen him naked, I have seen

his wounds which he was hiding. Although I have helped him – but what is my help? His pride is

hurt, and I have to wash my hands. I have to do something so that he does not feel ashamed, so he

does not feel that his pride has been hurt; on the contrary, he feels that he has obliged me, he has

given me an opportunity to help a brother. He is not obliged to me, I am obliged to him.”

‘BE RESERVED IN ACCEPTING! HONOUR A MAN BY ACCEPTING FROM HIM!’

Be reserved, be very, very careful and cautious in accepting.

HONOUR A MAN BY ACCEPTING FROM HIM. It may be a small thing, a roseflower, or just a good

morning, or a handshake, but accept it with such love, with such grace. He has honored you. Let

him feel that he has been accepted.

In this world millions of people are suffering because nobody accepts them. Everybody asks them,

”Are you worthy? Do you deserve?” Nobody accepts them as they are, and certainly, everybody is

whatever he is. It is not his fault existence needs him the way he is; he must be fulfilling a certain

need of which you are not aware. You are not aware of many mysteries of life, and if life is accepting

a man, who are you to reject him?

But all around the world people are suffering for a simple reason that they don’t have anything to

give, that nobody wants them as they are, that everybody demands them to be somebody else –

then they will be accepted. And nobody can be somebody else. In the very effort he becomes

crippled, in the very effort he becomes distorted, in the very effort he loses his natural grace and his

natural destiny, he goes astray. And this creates misery.

... THUS I ADVISE THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE.

I, HOWEVER, AM A GIVER: I GIVE GLADLY AS A FRIEND TO FRIENDS. BUT STRANGERS

AND THE POOR MAY PLUCK THE FRUIT FROM MY TREE FOR THEMSELVES: IT CAUSES

LESS SHAME THAT WAY. Do you see his insight? He says, ”I give to my friends, because it will not

hurt their pride. They will rejoice with me. I have accepted things from them; I have accepted them,

they will accept me. But to the poor, but to strangers, I would suggest it is better they PLUCK THE

FRUIT FROM MY TREE FOR THEMSELVES: IT CAUSES LESS SHAME THAT WAY. Their pride

will not be hurt, and they will not feel inferior to me. It is very difficult to find a man of deeper insight

into human psychology.

AND WE ARE THE MOST UNFAIR, NOT TOWARDS HIM WHOM WE DO NOT LIKE, BUT

TOWARDS HIM FOR WHOM WE FEEL NOTHING AT ALL. You can love someone, you can hate

someone, but don’t be neutral, don’t be indifferent. You can like, you can dislike – in either case you

are taking a standpoint. But don’t say, ”It does not matter to me.” The moment you become neutral

you are simply saying that whether that man exists or dies it makes no difference to you.

This is the greatest harm that you can do to somebody. Hate will not hurt so much. At least you hate,

there is a relationship. And hate can turn into love any moment, because love turns into hate – they

are convertible. Likings can become dislikings tomorrow and vice versa, but indifference remains

indifference.

Indifference is the worst kind of behavior a man can adopt. But watch yourself, how indifferent are

you? How many people do you love, how many people do you hate? How many people do you like,

how many people do you dislike? The number will be very small. And what about the millions to

whom you are simply indifferent? If in Ethiopia one thousand people die every day, you simply read

it in the newspaper and you don’t lose even a heartbeat. Ethiopia is far away, it is almost another

planet; and obviously you cannot care about the whole world.

It is not a question of care. It is a question of the expansion of your consciousness. Ethiopia should

be part of the map of your consciousness. But in Ethiopia people were dying because they had no

food, and in Europe food was being destroyed in the ocean because they had superfluous food –

mountains of butter, mountains of foodstuff. Just the cost of destruction was two billion dollars. That

was not the cost of the food – it was just the cost of taking the food to the ocean and throwing it into

the ocean. One wonders, does man really have a heart, or is it just a fiction?

The same was happening in America. Every six months in Europe and America – both places –

billions of dollars are wasted in destroying food, and in the poor countries people are dying. And

death by starvation is the ugliest, because it takes such a long time, and so much unnecessary

suffering. A healthy man can live without food for three months, then he will die. But these three

months will be hell, they will appear like three lives.

A man who knows life as a joy will also understand that other living beings are in the same category;

they also want to live, they also want to enjoy. If I can do something it is not for them, it is not a

service – it is just my joy, my pleasure to share myself.

BUT IF YOU HAVE A SUFFERING FRIEND, BE A RESTING-PLACE FOR HIS SUFFERING, BUT

A RESTING-PLACE LIKE A HARD BED, A CAMP-BED: THUS YOU WILL SERVE HIM BEST.

AND SHOULD YOUR FRIEND DO YOU A WRONG, THEN SAY: ‘I FORGIVE YOU WHAT YOU DID

TO ME; BUT THAT YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF – HOW COULD I FORGIVE THAT?’ What can I do

about that? Doing something to me you have done something to yourself, too. I can forgive you for

what you have done to me, but what can I do about what you have done to yourself? You cannot hurt

anybody without hurting yourself. It is just impossible to behave in a disgusting way with anybody;

you are at the same time behaving disgustingly with yourself.

You cannot insult somebody without insulting yourself.

THUS SPEAKS ALL GREAT LOVE: IT OVERCOMES EVEN FORGIVENESS AND PITY. When you

say ”I pity”, it is not love; because to whomsoever you show your pity, you make him feel inferior.

Love never makes anybody feel inferior. It gives superiority. It brings out the best in the other. PITY

and SERVICE TO THE POOR are ugly words; DUTY... these are not words of love. These are the

conveniences of a miserable society. These are not the sharings of a blissful world.

ALAS, WHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE THERE BEEN GREATER FOLLIES THAN WITH THE

COMPASSIONATE? AND WHAT IN THE WORLD HAS CAUSED MORE SUFFERING THAN THE

FOLLIES OF THE COMPASSIONATE? You may have never thought that compassion can also

cause misery. But that’s what it has done. Mohammedans have killed millions of people – out of

compassion. Christians have killed millions of people – out of compassion. The compassion for the

Mohammedan is – if you are not a Mohammedan then become a Mohammedan, because only a

Mohammedan will be saved on the last day of judgment. Even if you have to be forced, on the point

of a sword, it is compassion. And if you are still unwilling to become a Mohammedan it is better that

you are killed, because to be killed at the hands of a Mohammedan you have some chance of being

saved.

Christian missionaries go on spreading in the world that unless you are a Christian you cannot be

saved. There is only one savior, Jesus Christ. Those who don’t follow Jesus have to be brought

somehow into the fold. In the past, they used to be forced by violence, by murder, by arson. Today

the means of converting them has changed, but the basic idea remains the same. First they used

to come with a bible in one hand, and a sword in the other; now they come with a bible in one hand

and a loaf of bread in the other.

The hungry, the starving cannot resist the temptation. Even if he has to become a Christian –

he does not know anything about religion, his whole life he has known only one thing and that is

hunger. The bread certainly seems to be a great redemption. But by giving bread to the poor you

are purchasing their souls. And the idea is, the more people you make Christians, the more you

accumulate virtue. You are not concerned with their being saved, you are concerned with your own

account, your own virtue. Compassion has done much harm. The coming man has to rise above

compassion. The new man has to learn sharing – not for any reward, not for any compensation,

but just out of sheer joy. It is joy to share. If you have bread and you can share with a hungry man

without hurting his pride, if you can share with those who are unfortunate and yet remain graceful,

that will be true virtue.

WOE TO ALL LOVERS WHO CANNOT SURMOUNT PITY!

THUS SPOKE THE DEVIL TO ME ONCE: ‘EVEN GOD HAS HIS HELL: IT IS HIS LOVE FOR MAN.’

It is a very strange statement. Zarathustra is speaking through the mouth of the devil, because he

cannot say it directly. He cannot say it directly because he has declared God to be dead, and if

God is dead the devil cannot survive, they both are fictions, complementary to each other; they can

only exist together. But just to make a significant statement he uses the metaphor of the devil: Thus

spoke the Devil to me once: ‘Even God has his Hell: it is his love for man.’

It reminds me of Jean-Paul Sartre, who was one of the most significant philosophers of our century.

He says, ”The other is hell.” And it is the conclusion of a long life of many love affairs; but each love

affair ended in a state of hell. Finally he draws the conclusion that it does not matter who the other

is, the other itself is hell. The other has his own likings, dislikings; even lovers cannot be in harmony,

because harmony is a totally different discipline. Unless you have learned to be in harmony with

yourself, how you can be in harmony with anybody else?

So it is good if lovers just meet on the beaches, in the parks – just once in a while. Everything seems

to be great and beautiful because both are alert and keeping on their masks, their makeup; they are

saying sweet nothings to each other.

But once they start living together it becomes difficult to go on being false twenty-four hours a day.

It becomes heavy, and the mask goes on slipping; you cannot hold it on for twenty-four hours. And

you cannot go on saying the same old sweet nothings again and again – they become boring. Soon

you find there is nothing to talk about. Your love becomes a repetition, a mechanical repetition, as if

you are seeing the same old film again and again and again.

I have heard about a villager... when for the first time in his village came a movie, a touring movie,

he saw the matinee show. Everybody had left, but he was sitting there. The manager came, ”What

is the idea? Because the show is finished, and now we will have to clean for the next show.” The

villager said, ”You can bring the ticket for the next show, I am not going anywhere, I will see the next

show. And if I am not satisfied, I will see the third show, also.” There were three shows every day.

The manager thought the man seemed mad, but he gave money, so he said, ”Perhaps, let him see

it.” After the second show, the manager came again just out of curiosity to ask, ”Are you satisfied?”

The villager said, ”Satisfied? My foot! I have to see the third show also. This is the money, bring the

ticket.” But the manager said, ”What is the problem? If I can be of any help?...” He said, ”Nobody

can be of any help. But I’m not going to go unless I’m satisfied.” The manager said, ”What is your

satisfaction? How can you be satisfied? You just tell me.”

The villager said, ”In the film, there is a beautiful woman just standing on the bank of a beautiful lake,

undressing. She’s almost undressed, just the last piece of cloth has remained; and unfortunately, a

train comes and by the time the train has passed, the woman is swimming in the lake. I’m waiting,

because in India, it is impossible that the train will come always at the right time. Someday it is going

to be late; if not today, tomorrow I will come, the day after tomorrow I will come. One day it is going

to happen that the train will not come, only then I will be satisfied.” The manager said, ”My God, it is

going to be very difficult!”

But what are you seeing in your film? – the same film, and even the train does not come. And every

night you decide enough is enough, but after twenty-four hours you start thinking perhaps... one

never knows, something may be different. And it has been going on for your whole life.

The moment anything becomes a repetition you start behaving like a robot. And everything is bound

to become a repetition, unless your intelligence, your meditativeness, your love is so great that it

goes on transforming yourself and the person you love; so that each time you look in the eyes of

the person you love it is something different, it is something new – new flowers have blossomed, the

season has changed.

Unless one remains changing, even love becomes hell; otherwise, everybody would be in love in

the whole world, but everybody is living in his own hell – private hells, just like attached bathrooms.

To live a life which never becomes a misery, which never becomes a hell, one has to be fresh every

moment, unburdened of the past, always trying to find new dimensions to relate with people, new

ways to relate with people, new songs to sing. One should make it a point, a basic point, that I will

not live like a machine; because the machine has no life – it has efficiency. The world needs you to

be a machine because the world needs efficiency.

But your own being needs you to be absolutely non-mechanical, unpredictable – each morning

should find you new. That is the way of the superman, that is the way of the sannyasin.

SO BE WARNED AGAINST PITY: ‘THENCE’ SHALL YET COME A HEAVY CLOUD FOR MAN!

TRULY, I UNDERSTAND WEATHER-SIGNS!

‘BUT MARK, TOO, THIS SAYING: ALL GREAT LOVE IS ABOVE PITY: FOR IT WANTS – TO

CREATE WHAT IS LOVED!’

Pity, sympathy, compassion are far lower than love, because love is a creative experience. Lovers

create each other. In their creating each other continuously, they remain new, they remain fresh.

‘I OFFER MYSELF TO MY LOVE, AND MY NEIGHBOR AS MYSELF.’ Never deceive your love,

because no deception is going to be unknown, undiscovered; soon the other will come to know your

deception. Never lie to the person you love; be authentic and be sincere, and be just an open book

– not hiding anything, not pretending anything. Remain yourself.

‘I OFFER MYSELF TO MY LOVE, AND MY NEIGHBOR AS MYSELF.’ Hence, there is no need of

feeling a burden of pretensions, lies, deceptions, hypocrisies. Just be authentically yourself.

THAT IS THE LANGUAGE OF ALL CREATORS.

ALL CREATORS, HOWEVER, ARE HARD.

Love as creativity is a tremendously significant idea. Love not only as a relationship between two

static persons, but love as a creative whirlpool, love as a dance, so fast, at full speed, that it is difficult

to find who is the lover and who is the beloved. And the dance goes on becoming more and more

deep, and the dancers disappear and only the dance remains. One can make his life a beautiful

dance, a creative act of love.

Zarathustra teaches love as the highest value. Love to him is God, love to him is religion.

... THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA.

Okay, Maneesha?

Yes, Osho.

 

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  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 1: Prologue Part 1
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 1: Prologue Part 1, WHEN ZARATHUSTRA WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD, HE LEFT HIS HOME AND THE LAKE OF HIS HOME AND WENT INTO THE MOUNTAINS. HERE HE HAD THE ENJOYMENT OF HIS SPIRIT AND HIS SOLITUDE AND HE DID NOT WEARY OF IT FOR TEN YEARS. BUT AT LAST HIS HEART TURNED – AND ONE MORNING HE ROSE WITH THE DAWN, STEPPED BEFORE THE SUN AND SPOKE TO IT THUS: GREAT STAR! WHAT WOULD YOUR HAPPINESS BE, IF YOU HAD NOT THOSE FOR WHOM YOU SHINE! YOU HAVE COME UP HERE TO MY CAVE FOR TEN YEARS: YOU WOULD HAVE GROWN WEARY OF YOUR LIGHT AND OF THIS JOURNEY, WITHOUT ME, MY EAGLE AND MY SERPENT at energyenhancement.org
  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 2: Prologue Part 2
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 2: Prologue Part 2, ZARATHUSTRA WENT DOWN THE MOUNTAIN ALONE, AND NO ONE MET HIM. BUT WHEN HE ENTERED THE FOREST, AN OLD MAN, WHO HAD LEFT HIS HOLY HUT TO LOOK FOR ROOTS IN THE FOREST, SUDDENLY STOOD BEFORE HIM. AND THE OLD MAN SPOKE THUS TO ZARATHUSTRA: ‘THIS WANDERER IS NO STRANGER TO ME: HE PASSED BY HERE MANY YEARS AGO. HE WAS CALLED ZARATHUSTRA; BUT HE HAS CHANGED. ‘THEN YOU CARRIED YOUR ASHES TO THE MOUNTAINS: WILL YOU TODAY CARRY YOUR FIRE INTO THE VALLEYS? DO YOU NOT FEAR AN INCENDIARY’S PUNISHMENT? ‘YES, I RECOGNIZE ZARATHUSTRA. HIS EYES ARE CLEAR, AND NO DISGUST LURKS ABOUT HIS MOUTH. DOES HE NOT GO ALONG LIKE A DANCER? ‘HOW CHANGED ZARATHUSTRA IS! ZARATHUSTRA HAS BECOME – A CHILD, AN AWAKENED-ONE: WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW WITH THE SLEEPERS? ‘YOU LIVED IN SOLITUDE AS IN THE SEA, AND THE SEA BORE YOU. ALAS, DO YOU WANT TO GO ASHORE? ALAS, DO YOU WANT AGAIN TO DRAG YOUR BODY YOURSELF? at energyenhancement.org
  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 3: Prologue Part 3
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 3: Prologue Part 3, WHEN ZARATHUSTRA ARRIVED AT THE NEAREST OF THE TOWNS LYING AGAINST THE FOREST, HE FOUND IN THAT VERY PLACE MANY PEOPLE ASSEMBLED IN THE MARKET SQUARE: FOR IT HAD BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT A TIGHT-ROPE WALKER WOULD BE APPEARING. AND ZARATHUSTRA SPOKE THUS TO THE PEOPLE: I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. MAN IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE OVERCOME. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO OVERCOME HIM? ALL CREATURES HITHERTO HAVE CREATED SOMETHING BEYOND THEMSELVES: AND DO YOU WANT TO BE THE EBB OF THIS GREAT TIDE, AND RETURN TO THE ANIMALS RATHER THAN OVERCOME MAN? WHAT IS THE APE TO MEN? A LAUGHING-STOCK OR A PAINFUL EMBARRASSMENT. AND JUST SO SHALL MAN BE TO THE SUPERMAN: A LAUGHING-STOCK OR A PAINFUL EMBARRASSMENT. YOU HAVE MADE YOUR WAY FROM WORM TO MAN, AND MUCH IN YOU IS STILL WORM. ONCE YOU WERE APES, AND EVEN NOW MAN IS MORE OF AN APE THAN ANY APE. BUT HE WHO IS THE WISEST AMONG YOU, HE ALSO IS ONLY A DISCORD AND HYBRID OF PLANT AND OF GHOST. BUT DO I BID YOU BECOME GHOSTS OR PLANTS? at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 4: Prologue 4
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 4: Prologue 4, WHAT IS THE GREATEST THING YOU CAN EXPERIENCE? IT IS THE HOUR OF THE GREAT CONTEMPT. THE HOUR IN WHICH EVEN YOUR HAPPINESS GROWS LOATHSOME TO YOU, AND YOUR REASON AND YOUR VIRTUE ALSO. THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: ‘WHAT GOOD IS MY HAPPINESS? IT IS POVERTY AND DIRT AND A MISERABLE EASE. BUT MY HAPPINESS SHOULD JUSTIFY EXISTENCE ITSELF!’ THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: ‘WHAT GOOD IS MY REASON? DOES IT LONG FOR KNOWLEDGE AS THE LION FOR ITS FOOD? IT IS POVERTY AND DIRT AND A MISERABLE EASE!’ THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: ‘WHAT GOOD IS MY VIRTUE? IT HAS NOT YET DRIVEN ME MAD! HOWTIRED I AM OF MY GOOD AND MY EVIL! IT IS ALL POVERTY AND DIRT AND MISERABLE EASE!.... THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY, ‘WHAT GOOD IS MY PITY? IS NOT PITY THE CROSS UPON WHICH HE WHO LOVES MAN IS NAILED? BUT MY PITY IS NO CRUCIFIXION!’ HAVE YOU EVER SPOKEN THUS? HAVE YOU EVER CRIED THUS? AH, THAT I HAD HEARD YOU CRYING THUS! at energyenhancement.org
  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 5: Prologue Part 5
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 5: Prologue Part 5, WHEN ZARATHUSTRA HAD SPOKEN THESE WORDS HE LOOKED AGAIN AT THE PEOPLE AND FELL SILENT. THERE THEY STAND (HE SAID TO HIS HEART), THERE THEY LAUGH: THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND ME, I AM NOT THE MOUTH FOR THESE EARS. MUST ONE FIRST SHATTER THEIR EARS TO TEACH THEM TO HEAR WITH THEIR EYES? MUST ONE RUMBLE LIKE DRUMS AND LENTEN PREACHERS? OR DO THEY BELIEVE ONLY THOSE WHO STAMMER? THEY HAVE SOMETHING OF WHICH THEY ARE PROUD. WHAT IS IT CALLED THAT MAKES THEM PROUD? THEY CALL IT CULTURE, IT DISTINGUISHES THEM FROM THE GOATHERDS. THEREFORE THEY DISLIKE HEARING THE WORD ’CONTEMPT’ SPOKEN OF THEM. SO I SHALL SPEAK TO THEIR PRIDE. SO I SHALL SPEAK TO THEM OF THE MOST CONTEMPTIBLE MAN: AND THAT IS THE ULTIMATE MAN. AND THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA TO THE PEOPLE: IT IS TIME FOR MAN TO FIX HIS GOAL. IT IS TIME FOR MAN TO PLANT THE SEED OF HIS HIGHEST HOPE at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 6: Prologue Part 6
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 6: Prologue Part 6, FOLLOWING HIS SPEECH ABOUT THE ULTIMATE MAN, ZARATHUSTRA REALIZES THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD HIM, FOR THEY NOW CRY OUT TO HIM FOR THE ULTIMATE MAN, TELLING HIM HE CAN HAVE THE SUPERMAN. WHILE HE PONDERS ON THIS, THE TIGHT-ROPE WALKER BEGINS HIS ACT – WALKING ACROSS A ROPE SUSPENDED HIGH ABOVE THE PEOPLE IN THE MARKET SQUARE, BETWEEN TWO TOWERS. WHEN HE REACHES THE MID-POINT, SUDDENLY A FIGURE DRESSED AS A BUFFOON APPEARS FROM ONE OF THE TOWERS, AND PROCEEDS TO FOLLOW THE TIGHT-ROPE WALKER, SHOUTING OUT AND ABUSING HIM. HE MAKES TO JUMP OVER THE TIGHTROPE WALKER, WHO LOSES HIS BALANCE AND FALLS, LANDING QUITE CLOSE TO WHERE ZARATHUSTRA IS STANDING. ZARATHUSTRA STAYS WITH THE DYING MAN LONG AFTER EVENING HAS COME AND THE CROWD DISPERSED at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 7: Of the three metamorphoses
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 7: Of the three metamorphoses, I NAME YOU THREE METAMORPHOSES OF THE SPIRIT: HOW THE SPIRIT SHALL BECOME A CAMEL, AND THE CAMEL A LION, AND THE LION AT LAST A CHILD. THERE ARE MANY HEAVY THINGS FOR THE SPIRIT, FOR THE STRONG, WEIGHT-BEARING SPIRIT IN WHICH DWELL RESPECT AND AWE: ITS STRENGTH LONGS FOR THE HEAVY, FOR THE HEAVIEST. WHAT IS HEAVY? THUS ASKS THE WEIGHT-BEARING SPIRIT, THUS IT KNEELS DOWN LIKE THE CAMEL AND WANTS TO BE WELL LADEN. WHAT IS THE HEAVIEST THING, YOU HEROES? SO ASKS THE WEIGHT-BEARING SPIRIT, THAT I MAY TAKE IT UPON ME AND REJOICE IN MY STRENGTH. IS IT NOT THIS: TO DEBASE YOURSELF IN ORDER TO INJURE YOUR PRIDE?... OR IS IT THIS: TO DESERT OUR CAUSE WHEN IT IS CELEBRATING ITS VICTORY? TO CLIMB HIGH MOUNTAINS IN ORDER TO TEMPT THE TEMPTER?... OR IS IT THIS: TO LOVE THOSE WHO DESPISE US AND TO OFFER OUR HAND TO THE GHOST WHEN IT WANTS TO FRIGHTEN US? at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 8: Of the despisers of the body and the joys and the passions
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 8: Of the despisers of the body and the joys and the passions, YOU SAY ‘I’ AND YOU ARE PROUD OF THIS WORD. BUT GREATER THAN THIS – ALTHOUGH YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE IN IT – IS YOUR BODY AND ITS GREAT INTELLIGENCE, WHICH DOES NOT SAY ‘I’ BUT PERFORMS ‘I’. WHAT THE SENSE FEELS, WHAT THE SPIRIT PERCEIVES, IS NEVER AN END IN ITSELF. BUT SENSE AND SPIRIT WOULD LIKE TO PERSUADE YOU THAT THEY ARE THE END OF ALL THINGS: THEY ARE AS VAIN AS THAT. SENSE AND SPIRIT ARE INSTRUMENTS AND TOYS: BEHIND THEM STILL LIES THE SELF. THE SELF SEEKS WITH THE EYES OF THE SENSE, IT LISTENS TOO WITH THE EARS OF THE SPIRIT. THE SELF IS ALWAYS LISTENING AND SEEKING: IT COMPARES, SUBDUES, CONQUERS, DESTROYS. IT RULES AND IS ALSO THE EGO’S RULER. BEHIND YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, MY BROTHER, STANDS A MIGHTY COMMANDER, AN UNKNOWN SAGE – HE IS CALLED SELF. HE LIVES IN YOUR BODY, HE IS YOUR BODY. THERE IS MORE REASON IN YOUR BODY THAN IN YOUR BEST WISDOM. AND WHO KNOWS FOR WHAT PURPOSE YOUR BODY REQUIRES PRECISELY YOUR BEST WISDOM?... at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 9: Of live and love and of war and warriors
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 9: Of live and love and of war and warriors, WHAT HAVE WE IN COMMON WITH THE ROSEBUD, WHICH TREMBLES BECAUSE A DROP OF DEW IS LYING UPON IT? IT IS TRUE: WE LOVE LIFE, NOT BECAUSE WE ARE USED TO LIVING BUT BECAUSE WE ARE USED TO LOVING. THERE IS ALWAYS A CERTAIN MADNESS IN LOVE. BUT ALSO THERE IS ALWAYS A CERTAIN METHOD IN MADNESS. AND TO ME TOO, WHO LOVE LIFE, IT SEEMS THAT BUTTERFLIES AND SOAP-BUBBLES, AND WHATEVER IS LIKE THEM AMONG MEN, KNOW MOST ABOUT HAPPINESS. TO SEE THESE LIGHT, FOOLISH, DAINTY, AFFECTING LITTLE SOULS FLUTTER ABOUT – THAT MOVES ZARATHUSTRA TO TEARS AND TO SONG. I SHOULD BELIEVE ONLY IN A GOD WHO UNDERSTOOD HOW TO DANCE. OF WAR AND WARRIORS WE DO NOT WISH TO BE SPARED BY OUR BEST ENEMIES, NOR BY THOSE WHOM WE LOVE FROM THE VERY HEART. SO LET ME TELL YOU THE TRUTH! at energyenhancement.org
  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 10: Of the new idol and of the flies of the marketplace
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 10: Of the new idol and of the flies of the marketplace, THERE ARE STILL PEOPLES AND HERDS SOMEWHERE, BUT NOT WITH US, MY BROTHERS: HERE THERE ARE STATES.... THE STATE IS THE COLDEST OF ALL COLD MONSTERS. COLDLY IT LIES, TOO; AND THIS LIE CREEPS FROM ITS MOUTH: ’I, THE STATE, AM THE PEOPLE.’ IT IS A LIE! IT WAS CREATORS WHO CREATED PEOPLES AND HUNG A FAITH AND A LOVE OVER THEM: THUS THEY SERVED LIFE. IT IS DESTROYERS WHO SET SNARES FOR MANY AND CALL IT THE STATE: THEY HANG A SWORD AND A HUNDRED DESIRES OVER THEM. WHERE A PEOPLE STILL EXISTS, THERE THE PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE STATE AND HATE IT AS THE EVIL EYE AND SIN AGAINST CUSTOM AND LAW.... A FREE LIFE STILL REMAINS FOR GREAT SOULS. TRULY, HE WHO POSSESSES LITTLE IS SO MUCH THE LESS POSSESSED: PRAISED BE A MODERATE POVERTY! ONLY THERE, WHERE THE STATE CEASES, DOES THE MAN WHO IS NOT SUPERFLUOUS BEGIN: DOES THE SONG OF THE NECESSARY MAN, THE UNIQUE AND IRREPLACEABLE MELODY, BEGIN at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 11: Of the friend
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 11: Of the friend, OUR FAITH IN OTHERS BETRAYS WHEREIN WE WOULD DEARLY LIKE TO HAVE FAITH IN OURSELVES. OUR LONGING FOR A FRIEND IS OUR BETRAYER. AND OFTEN WITH OUR LOVE WE ONLYWANT TO LEAP OVER ENVY. AND OFTEN WE ATTACK AND MAKE AN ENEMY IN ORDER TO CONCEAL THAT WE ARE VULNERABLE TO ATTACK. ‘AT LEAST BE MY ENEMY!’ – THUS SPEAKS THE TRUE REVERENCE THAT DOES NOT VENTURE TO ASK FOR FRIENDSHIP. IF YOU WANT A FRIEND, YOU MUST ALSO BE WILLING TO WAGE WAR FOR HIM: AND TO WAGE WAR, YOU MUST BE CAPABLE OF BEING AN ENEMY. YOU SHOULD HONOUR EVEN THE ENEMY IN YOUR FRIEND. CAN YOU GO NEAR TO YOUR FRIEND WITHOUT GOING OVER TO HIM? IN YOUR FRIEND YOU SHOULD POSSESS YOUR BEST ENEMY. YOUR HEART SHOULD FEEL CLOSEST TO HIM WHEN YOU OPPOSE HIM.... HE WHO MAKES NO SECRET OF HIMSELF EXCITES ANGER IN OTHERS: THAT IS HOW MUCH REASON YOU HAVE TO FEAR NAKEDNESS. IF YOU WERE GODS YOU COULD THEN BE ASHAMED OF YOUR CLOTHES! at energyenhancement.org
  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 12: Of the thousand and one goals
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 12: Of the thousand and one goals, NO PEOPLE COULD LIVE WITHOUT EVALUATING; BUT IF IT WISHES TO MAINTAIN ITSELF IT MUST NOT EVALUATE AS ITS NEIGHBOR EVALUATES. MUCH THAT SEEMED GOOD TO ONE PEOPLE SEEMED SHAME AND DISGRACE TO ANOTHER: THUS I FOUND. I FOUND MUCH THAT WAS CALLED EVIL IN ONE PLACE WAS IN ANOTHER DECKED WITH PURPLE HONOURS.... A TABLE OF VALUES HANGS OVER EVERY PEOPLE. BEHOLD, IT IS THE TABLE OF ITS OVERCOMINGS; BEHOLD, IT IS THE VOICE OF ITS WILL TO POWER. WHAT IT ACCOUNTS HARD IT CALLS PRAISEWORTHY; WHAT IT ACCOUNTS INDISPENSABLE AND HARD IT CALLS GOOD; AND THAT WHICH RELIEVES THE GREATEST NEED, THE RARE, THE HARDEST OF ALL – IT GLORIFIES AS HOLY. WHATEVER CAUSES IT TO RULE AND CONQUER AND GLITTER, TO THE DREAD AND ENVY OF ITS NEIGHBOR, THAT IT ACCOUNTS THE SUBLIMEST, THE PARAMOUNT, THE EVALUATION AND THE MEANING OF ALL THINGS.... MAN FIRST IMPLANTED VALUES INTO THINGS TO MAINTAIN HIMSELF – HE CREATED THE MEANING OF THINGS, A HUMAN MEANING! THEREFORE HE CALLS HIMSELF: ‘MAN’, THAT IS: THE EVALUATOR at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 13: Of love of one’s neighbor
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 13: Of love of one’s neighbor, YOU FLEE TO YOUR NEIGHBOR AWAY FROM YOURSELVES AND WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A VIRTUE OF IT: BUT I SEE THROUGH YOUR ‘SELFLESSNESS’.... DO I EXHORT YOU TO LOVE OF YOUR NEIGHBOR? I EXHORT YOU RATHER TO FLIGHT FROM YOUR NEIGHBOR AND TO LOVE OF THE MOST DISTANT! HIGHER THAN LOVE OF ONE’S NEIGHBOR STANDS LOVE OF THE MOST DISTANT MAN AND OF THE MAN OF THE FUTURE; HIGHER STILL THAN LOVE OF MAN I ACCOUNT LOVE OF CAUSES AND OF PHANTOMS. THIS PHANTOM THAT RUNS ALONG BEHIND YOU, MY BROTHER, IS FAIRER THAN YOU; WHY DO YOU NOT GIVE IT YOUR FLESH AND BONES? BUT YOU ARE AFRAID AND YOU RUN TO YOUR NEIGHBOR.... YOU INVITE IN A WITNESS WHEN YOU WANT TO SPEAK WELL OF YOURSELVES; AND WHEN YOU HAVE MISLED HIM INTO THINKING WELL OF YOU, YOU THEN THINK WELL OF YOURSELVES.... ONE MAN RUNS TO HIS NEIGHBOR BECAUSE HE IS LOOKING FOR HIMSELF, AND ANOTHER BECAUSE HE WANTS TO LOSE HIMSELF. YOUR BAD LOVE OF YOURSELVES MAKES SOLITUDE A PRISON TO YOU.... at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 14: Of the way of the creator
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 14: Of the way of the creator, MY BROTHER, DO YOU WANT TO GO APART AND BE ALONE? DO YOU WANT TO SEEK THE WAY TO YOURSELF? PAUSE JUST A MOMENT AND LISTEN TO ME. ‘HE WHO SEEKS MAY EASILY GET LOST HIMSELF. IT IS A CRIME TO GO APART AND BE ALONE’ – THUS SPEAKS THE HERD. THE VOICE OF THE HERD WILL STILL RING WITHIN YOU. AND WHEN YOU SAY: ‘WE HAVE NO LONGER THE SAME CONSCIENCE, YOU AND I’, IT WILL BE A LAMENT AND A GRIEF. FOR SEE, IT IS STILL THIS SAME CONSCIENCE THAT CAUSES YOUR GRIEF: AND THE LAST GLIMMER OF THIS CONSCIENCE STILL GLOWS IN YOUR AFFLICTION. BUT YOU WANT TO GO THE WAY OF YOUR AFFLICTION, WHICH IS THE WAY TO YOURSELF? IF SO, SHOW ME YOUR STRENGTH FOR IT AND YOUR RIGHT TO IT! ARE YOU A NEW STRENGTH AND A NEW RIGHT? A FIRST MOTION? A SELF-PROPELLING WHEEL? CAN YOU ALSO COMPEL STARS TO REVOLVE ABOUT YOU? ALAS, THERE IS SO MUCH LUSTING FOR EMINENCE! THERE IS SO MUCH CONVULSION OF THE AMBITIOUS!... at energyenhancement.org
  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 15: Of justice
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 15: Of justice, WHEN YOU HAVE AN ENEMY, DO NOT REQUITE HIM GOOD FOR EVIL: FOR THAT WOULD MAKE HIM ASHAMED. BUT PROVE THAT HE HAS DONE SOMETHING GOOD TO YOU. BETTER TO BE ANGRY THAN MAKE ASHAMED! AND WHEN YOU ARE CURSED, I DO NOT LIKE IT THAT YOU THEN WANT TO BLESS. RATHER CURSE BACK A LITTLE! AND SHOULD A GREAT INJUSTICE BE DONE YOU, THEN QUICKLY DO FIVE LITTLE INJUSTICES BESIDES. HE WHO BEARS INJUSTICE ALONE IS TERRIBLE TO BEHOLD. DID YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY? SHARED INJUSTICE IS HALF JUSTICE. AND HE WHO CAN BEAR IT SHOULD TAKE THE INJUSTICE UPON HIMSELF. A LITTLE REVENGE IS MORE HUMAN THAN NO REVENGE AT ALL. AND IF THE PUNISHMENT BE NOT ALSO A RIGHT AND AN HONOUR FOR THE TRANSGRESSOR, THEN I DO NOT LIKE YOUR PUNISHMENT. IT IS MORE NOBLE TO DECLARE YOURSELF WRONG THAN TO MAINTAIN YOU ARE RIGHT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE RIGHT. ONLY YOU MUST BE RICH ENOUGH FOR IT. I DO NOT LIKE YOUR COLD JUSTICE; AND FROM THE EYE OF YOUR JUDGES THERE ALWAYS GAZES ONLY THE EXECUTIONER AND HIS COLD STEEL at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 16: Of voluntary death
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 16: Of voluntary death, MANY DIE TOO LATE AND SOME DIE TOO EARLY. STILL THE DOCTRINE SOUNDS STRANGE: ‘DIE AT THE RIGHT TIME.’DIE AT THE RIGHT TIME: THUS ZARATHUSTRA TEACHES. TO BE SURE, HE WHO NEVER LIVED AT THE RIGHT TIME COULD HARDLY DIE AT THE RIGHT TIME! BETTER IF HE WERE NEVER TO BE BORN! – THUS I ADVISE THE SUPERFLUOUS. BUT EVEN THE SUPERFLUOUS MAKE A GREAT THING OF THEIR DYING; YES, EVEN THE HOLLOWEST NUT WANTS TO BE CRACKED. EVERYONE TREATS DEATH AS AN IMPORTANT MATTER: BUT AS YET DEATH IS NOT A FESTIVAL. AS YET, MEN HAVE NOT LEARNED TO CONSECRATE THE FAIREST FESTIVALS. I SHALL SHOW YOU THE CONSUMMATING DEATH, WHICH SHALL BE A SPUR AND A PROMISE TO THE LIVING. THE MAN CONSUMMATING HIS LIFE DIES HIS DEATH TRIUMPHANTLY.... TO DIE THUS IS THE BEST DEATH; BUT THE SECOND BEST IS: TO DIE IN BATTLE AND TO SQUANDER A GREAT SOUL at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 17: Of the bestowing virtue, part 1
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 17: Of the bestowing virtue, part 1 , TELL ME: HOW DID GOLD COME TO HAVE THE HIGHEST VALUE? BECAUSE IT IS UNCOMMON AND USELESS AND SHINING AND MELLOW IN LUSTRE; IT ALWAYS BESTOWS ITSELF. ONLY AS AN IMAGE OF THE HIGHEST VIRTUE DID GOLD COME TO HAVE THE HIGHEST VALUE. GOLD-LIKE GLEAMS THE GLANCE OF THE GIVER.... THE HIGHEST VIRTUE IS UNCOMMON AND USELESS, IT IS SHINING AND MELLOW IN LUSTRE: THE HIGHEST VIRTUE IS A BESTOWING VIRTUE. TRULY, I DIVINE YOU WELL, MY DISCIPLES, YOU ASPIRE TO THE BESTOWING VIRTUE, AS I DO.... YOU THIRST TO BECOME SACRIFICES AND GIFTS YOURSELVES; AND THAT IS WHY YOU THIRST TO HEAP UP ALL RICHES IN YOUR SOUL. YOUR SOUL ASPIRES INSATIABLY AFTER TREASURES AND JEWELS, BECAUSE YOUR VIRTUE IS INSATIABLE IN WANTING TO GIVE. YOU COMPEL ALL THINGS TO COME TO YOU AND INTO YOU, THAT THEY MAY FLOW BACK FROM YOUR FOUNTAIN AS GIFTS OF YOUR LOVE at energyenhancement.org
  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 18: Of the bestowing virtue, part 2
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 18: Of the bestowing virtue, part 2, HERE ZARATHUSTRA FELL SILENT A WHILE AND REGARDED HIS DISCIPLES LOVINGLY. THEN HE WENT ON SPEAKING THUS, AND HIS VOICE WAS DIFFERENT: STAY LOYAL TO THE EARTH, MY BROTHERS, WITH THE POWER OF YOUR VIRTUE! MAY YOUR BESTOWING LOVE AND YOUR KNOWLEDGE SERVE TOWARDS THE MEANING OF THE EARTH! THUS I BEG AND ENTREAT YOU.... A HUNDRED TIMES HAS SPIRIT AS WELL AS VIRTUE EXPERIMENTED AND GONE ASTRAY. YES, MAN WAS AN EXPERIMENT. ALAS, MUCH IGNORANCE AND ERROR HAS BECOME BODY IN US! NOT ONLY THE REASON OF MILLENNIA – THE MADNESS OF MILLENNIA TOO BREAKS OUT IN US. IT IS DANGEROUS TO BE AN HEIR. WE ARE STILL FIGHTING STEP BY STEP WITH THE GIANT CHANCE, AND HITHERTO THE SENSELESS, THE MEANINGLESS, HAS STILL RULED OVER MANKIND. MAY YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR VIRTUE SERVE THE MEANING OF THE EARTH, MY BROTHERS: AND MAY THE VALUE OF ALL THINGS BE FIXED ANEW BY YOU. TO THAT END YOU SHOULD BE FIGHTERS! TO THAT END YOU SHOULD BE CREATORS! THE BODY PURIFIES ITSELF THROUGH KNOWLEDGE; EXPERIMENTING WITH KNOWLEDGE IT ELEVATES ITSELF.... at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 19: Of the bestowing virtue, part 3
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 19: Of the bestowing virtue, part 3, WHEN ZARATHUSTRA HAD SAID THESE WORDS HE PAUSED LIKE ONE WHO HAS NOT SAID HIS LAST WORD; LONG HE BALANCED THE STAFF DOUBTFULLY IN HIS HAND. AT LAST HE SPOKE THUS, AND HIS VOICE WAS DIFFERENT: I NOWGO AWAY ALONE, MY DISCIPLES! YOU TOO NOWGO AWAY AND BE ALONE! SO I WILL HAVE IT. TRULY, I ADVISE YOU: GO AWAY FROM ME AND GUARD YOURSELVES AGAINST ZARATHUSTRA! AND BETTER STILL: BE ASHAMED OF HIM! PERHAPS HE HAS DECEIVED YOU. THE MAN OF KNOWLEDGE MUST BE ABLE NOT ONLY TO LOVE HIS ENEMIES BUT ALSO TO HATE HIS FRIENDS. ONE REPAYS A TEACHER BADLY IF ONE REMAINS ONLY A PUPIL. AND WHY, THEN, SHOULD YOU NOT PLUCK AT MY LAURELS? YOU RESPECT ME; BUT HOW IF ONE DAY YOUR RESPECT SHOULD TUMBLE? TAKE CARE THAT A FALLING STATUE DOES NOT STRIKE YOU DEAD! at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 20: On the blissful islands
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 20: On the blissful islands, ZARATHUSTRA HAS RETURNED TO THE MOUNTAINS WHERE HE LIVES A SOLITARY EXISTENCE FOR MANY YEARS – UNTIL ONE MORNING HE HAS A DREAM. FILLED WITH NEW RESOLVE AND AN OVERWHELMING DESIRE TO SHARE HIS WORDS WITH HIS FRIENDS, ZARATHUSTRA SPEAKS THUS: BEHOLD, WHAT ABUNDANCE IS AROUND US! AND IT IS FINE TO GAZE OUT UPON DISTANT SEAS FROM THE MIDST OF SUPERFLUITY. ONCE YOU SAID ‘GOD’ WHEN YOU GAZED UPON DISTANT SEAS; BUT NOW I HAVE TAUGHT YOU TO SAY ‘SUPERMAN’. GOD IS A SUPPOSITION; BUT I WANT YOUR SUPPOSING TO REACH NO FURTHER THAN YOUR CREATING WILL. COULD YOU CREATE A GOD? – SO BE SILENT ABOUT ALL GODS! BUT YOU COULD SURELY CREATE THE SUPERMAN. PERHAPS NOT YOU YOURSELVES, MY BROTHERS! BUT YOU COULD TRANSFORM YOURSELVES INTO FOREFATHERS AND ANCESTORS OF THE SUPERMAN: AND LET THIS BE YOUR FINEST CREATING! at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 21: Of the compassionate
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 21: Of the compassionate, AS LONG AS MEN HAVE EXISTED, MAN HAS ENJOYED HIMSELF TOO LITTLE: THAT ALONE, MY BROTHERS, IS OUR ORIGINAL SIN! AND IF WE LEARN BETTER TO ENJOY OURSELVES, WE BEST UNLEARN HOW TO DO HARM TO OTHERS AND TO CONTRIVE HARM. THEREFORE I WASH MY HAND WHEN IT HAS HELPED A SUFFERER, THEREFORE I WIPE MY SOUL CLEAN AS WELL. FOR I SAWTHE SUFFERER SUFFER, AND BECAUSE I SAWIT IWAS ASHAMED ON ACCOUNT OF HIS SHAME; AND WHEN I HELPED HIM, THEN I SORELY INJURED HIS PRIDE.... ‘BE RESERVED IN ACCEPTING! HONOUR A MAN BY ACCEPTING FROM HIM!’ – THUS I ADVISE THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE. I, HOWEVER, AM A GIVER: I GIVE GLADLY AS A FRIEND TO FRIENDS. BUT STRANGERS AND THE POOR MAY PLUCK THE FRUIT FROM MY TREE FOR THEMSELVES: IT CAUSES LESS SHAME THAT WAY.... AND WE ARE THE MOST UNFAIR, NOT TOWARDS HIM WHOM WE DO NOT LIKE, BUT TOWARDS HIM FOR WHOM WE FEEL NOTHING AT ALL at energyenhancement.org

  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 22: Of the priests
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 22: Of the priests, AND ONE DAY ZARATHUSTRA MADE A SIGN TO HIS DISCIPLES AND SPOKE THESE WORDS TO THEM: HERE ARE PRIESTS: AND ALTHOUGH THEY ARE MY ENEMIES, PASS THEM BY QUIETLY AND WITH SLEEPING SWORDS!... THEY ARE BAD ENEMIES: NOTHING IS MORE REVENGEFUL THAN THEIR HUMILITY. AND HE WHO TOUCHES THEM IS EASILY DEFILED.... HE WHOM THEY CALL REDEEMER HAS CAST THEM INTO BONDAGE – INTO THE BONDAGE OF FALSE VALUES AND FALSE SCRIPTURES! AH, THAT SOMEONE WOULD REDEEM THEM FROM THEIR REDEEMER!... OH, JUST LOOK AT THESE HUTS THAT THESE PRIESTS HAVE BUILT THEMSELVES. CHURCHES THEY CALL THEIR SWEETSMELLING CAVES! OH THIS COUNTERFEIT LIGHT! OH THIS MUSTY AIR! HERE, WHERE THE SOUL MAY NOT FLY UP TO ITS HEIGHT! at energyenhancement.org
  • Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 23: The night song
    Zarathustra, A God That Can Dance Chapter 23: The night song, IT IS NIGHT: NOW DO ALL LEAPING FOUNTAINS SPEAK LOUDER. AND MY SOUL TOO IS A LEAPING FOUNTAIN. IT IS NIGHT: ONLY NOW DO ALL SONGS OF LOVERS AWAKEN. AND MY SOUL TOO IS THE SONG OF A LOVER. SOMETHING UNQUENCHED, UNQUENCHABLE, IS IN ME, THAT WANTS TO SPEAK OUT. A CRAVING FOR LOVE IS IN ME, THAT ITSELF SPEAKS THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE. LIGHT AM I: AH, THAT I WERE NIGHT! BUT THIS IS MY SOLITUDE, THAT I AM GIRDED ROUND WITH LIGHT.... I LIVE IN MY OWN LIGHT, I DRINK BACK INTO MYSELF THE FLAMES THAT BREAK FROM ME. I DO NOT KNOWTHE JOY OF THE RECEIVER; AND I HAVE OFTEN DREAMED THAT STEALING MUST BE MORE BLESSED THAN RECEIVING. IT IS MY POVERTY THAT MY HAND NEVER RESTS FROM GIVING; IT IS MY ENVY THAT I SEE EXPECTANT EYES AND ILLUMINED NIGHTS OF DESIRE.... at energyenhancement.org

 

 

 
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