Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance
Osho unravels the mystery of man′s three metamorphoses - from camel to lion to child, and setting the record straight about the meaning of Nietzsche′s concept of the superman shows us how we ourselves can become the New Man.
Osho unravels the mystery of man′s three metamorphoses - from camel to lion to child, and setting the record straight about the meaning of Nietzsche′s concept of the superman shows us how we ourselves can become the New Man.
“Zarathustra is more a poet, is more a singer, is more a dancer than any other enlightened being has ever been. Even his prose is poetry, even his tears are pure joy, even his silence speaks, and speaks that which cannot be spoken. All his movements, all his gestures are that of a dancer, so full of grace, so full of beauty that he stands incomparable in the long history of mankind. He does not believe in a god, but he says, ‘I can believe in a god if he is capable of dance.’ He believes in the dance of life, and he believes in the song the whole universe is made of.
“He is a totally different kind of man than those you have become accustomed to know as saints, as sages, as messengers of god, as prophets, as messiahs. He is too human to pretend all that nonsense, and he is too proud of being human to be a prophet or a messiah.
“He is so fulfilled as a human being that even a god has nothing to give him. He is overflowing with love, overflowing with sharing, overflowing with dreams, the greatest dreams that have ever been dreamed. Dreams of human beings going through a metamorphosis and becoming superhuman, going beyond all that is animal in man, transcending all that is mean and ugly, reaching the heights of pure consciousness, blissfulness, ecstasy and creativity.
“Such a man is the rarest of the rare. Each of his words is so full of beauty that even twenty-five centuries have not been able to take away their freshness, their originality. He has not been succeeded by anyone, he still remains alone in immense purity and ecstasy, and perhaps he will always remain without a companion. His height is such; Everest cannot have companions.”
| Type | Series of Talks |
|---|---|
| Publisher | OSHO Media International |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-88050-261-0 |
| Format | Adobe ePub |
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