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Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance
In the world's first line-by-line commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, 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, through Osho's eyes, is first and foremost a human being who can laugh and shed tears just like the rest of us. He speaks to us as a friend, sorting methodically through the ins and outs on the path of truth, giving each aspect a thorough and single-pointed attention. Each of Osho's talks thus becomes a lesson on a very specific theme, and each theme is a step deeper into the journey toward becoming "a god that can dance" - a person who dares to shed all the bondages of false virtues and values and dance in innocence and joy with each moment of life.
Reviews
"In this book Osho takes Nietzsche's book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and rescues him from the blight of history, restoring his innocence and turning this great work into a celebration feast that we can all enjoy and appreciate."
Oscar Mann, Consultant, United Nations
Chapter Titles
Chapter 1: Prologue Part 1
Chapter 2: Prologue Part 2
Chapter 3: Prologue Part 3
Chapter 4: Prologue Part 4
Chapter 5: Prologue Part 5
Chapter 6: Prologue Part 6
Chapter 7: Of the Three Metamorphoses
Chapter 8: Of the Despisers of the Body and the Joys and the Passions
Chapter 9: Of Life and Love and of War and Warriors
Chapter 10: Of the New Idol and of the Flies of the Marketplace
Chapter 11: Of the Friend
Chapter 12: Of the Thousand and One Goals
Chapter 13: Of Love of One's Neighbor
Chapter 14: Of the Way of the Creator
Chapter 15: Of Justice
Chapter 16: Of Voluntary Death
Chapter 17: Of the Bestowing Virtue, Part 1
Chapter 18: Of the Bestowing Virtue, Part 2
Chapter 19: Of the Bestowing Virtue, Part 3
Chapter 20: On the Blissful Islands
Chapter 21: Of the Compassionate
Chapter 22: Of the Priests
Chapter 23: The Night Song
Excerpt from Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance
Chapter 1
"Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps the greatest philosopher the world has known. He is also great in another dimension which many philosophers are simply unaware of: he is a born mystic.
His philosophy is not only of the mind but is rooted deep in the heart, and some roots even reach to his very being. The only thing unfortunate about him is, that he was born in the West; hence, he could never come across any mystery school. He contemplated deeply, but he was absolutely unaware about meditation. His thoughts sometimes have the depth of a meditator, sometimes the flight of a Gautam Buddha; but these things seem to have happened spontaneously to him.
He knew nothing about the ways of enlightenment, about the path that reaches to one's own being. This created a tremendous turmoil in his being. His dreams go as high as the stars but his life remained very ordinary - it does not have the aura that meditation creates. His thoughts are not his blood, his bones, his marrow. They are beautiful, immensely beautiful, but something is missing; and what is missing is life itself. They are dead words; they don't breathe - there is no heartbeat.
But I have chosen to speak on him for a special reason: he is the only philosopher, from East or West, who has at least thought of the heights of human consciousness. He may not have experienced them; he certainly has not experienced them. He also thought of becoming a man again. That idea, of descending from your heights into the marketplace, descending from the stars to the earth, has never happened to anybody else.
He has something of Gautam Buddha, perhaps unconsciously carried over from his past lives, and he has something of the Zorba. Both are incomplete. But he is the only proof that Buddha and Zorba can meet; that those who have reached to the highest peaks need not remain there.
In fact, they should not remain there. They owe something to humanity; they owe something to the earth. They have been born amongst human beings; they have lived in the same darkness and in the same misery. And now that they have seen the light, it becomes obligatory that they should come back to wake up those who are fast asleep; to bring the good news - that darkness is not all, that unconsciousness is our choice.
If we choose to be conscious, all unconsciousness and all darkness can disappear. It is our choice that we are living in the dark valleys. If we decide to live on the sunlit peaks, nobody can prevent us because that is also our potential."
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