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Osho on Zarathustra

106 discourses in which Osho speaks about Zarathustra, most mentions first. Each line is his own sentence from that talk.

  1. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #1: Prologue part 1 · 36 mentions · 26 March 1987
    “Nietzsche himself had chosen Zarathustra to be his spokesman.”
  2. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7 #4: Be a seed · 30 mentions · 4 January 1976
    “The story is concerned with Zarathustra, another Lao Tzu, who believed in being natural, who believed in being easy, who believed in being just to be:”
  3. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #4: Of poets · 27 mentions · 9 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is so sincere and so truthful that he will not even spare himself, if there is something uttered by him which is not absolutely true.”
  4. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #11: Of the virtue that makes small · 27 mentions · 13 April 1987
    “Zarathustra has not any doctrine to preach, he has not any ideal that every man has to become.”
  5. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #22: The greeting · 27 mentions · 18 April 1987
    “This fragment from Zarathustra this evening begins as one of the so-called higher men, the king, addresses Zarathustra.”
  6. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #21: of the meeting with a higher man · 26 mentions · 18 April 1987
    “Zarathustra has no respect for the higher man, because the higher man is nothing but the old man with a bigger ego.”
  7. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #9: Of live and love and of war and warriors · 25 mentions · 30 March 1987
    “That does not mean that you have to agree with Zarathustra; that simply means, before any agreement or disagreement give him a chance to make his standpoint clear to you.”
  8. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #1: Of the famous philosophers · 24 mentions · 8 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is not a philosopher.”
  9. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #2: Of self-overcoming · 23 mentions · 8 April 1987
    “But the people who were aware of Alfred Adler and his psychology of will to power were not aware of the ancient seer, Zarathustra.”
  10. I Am That #11: No Mind At All · 21 mentions · 21 October 1980
    “If you are a Christian you are bound to be anti-Buddha, anti-Mahavira, anti-Lao Tzu, anti-Zarathustra, anti-Patanjali.Just choosing Christ and becoming anti to all the other great awakened individuals who have walked on the earth is becoming poor, unnecessaril…”
  11. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #6: Of manly prudence · 21 mentions · 10 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is not a thinker but a seer.”
  12. The Golden Future #9: I want you to become the dance · 20 mentions · 26 April 1987
    “You cannot ask questions of the heights of Zarathustra, of Kahlil Gibran -- and I have to answer your reality.”
  13. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #8: Of the despisers of the body and the joys and the passions · 20 mentions · 30 March 1987
    “Zarathustra, perhaps, is the sanest teacher we have known.”
  14. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #19: Of the bestowing virtue, part 3 · 20 mentions · 5 April 1987
    “IT IS ALMOST impossible to find in the long history of mankind another man with so many dimensions, so many insights, so wise and yet so human, as Zarathustra.”
  15. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #20: The convalescent · 20 mentions · 17 April 1987
    “Today's fragment on Zarathustra starts with a small parable.”
  16. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #3: Prologue part 3 · 19 mentions · 27 March 1987
    “EVERY STATEMENT of Zarathustra is so pregnant with meaning that it is almost impossible to bring out all the implications, to open up all the mysteries hidden in it.”
  17. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #12: Of the apostates · 19 mentions · 13 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is trying, from every possible aspect, to understand why man has not evolved as he should have -- why he has remained childish, why the superman has not yet arrived.”
  18. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #14: Of the three evil things · 19 mentions · 14 April 1987
    “All the teachers before Zarathustra, and even after him, have looked at things with a very prejudiced mind.”
  19. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #4: Prologue part 4 · 18 mentions · 28 March 1987
    “Zarathustra continues to talk to the audience, which consists only of the blind and the deaf and the heartless.”
  20. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #6: Prologue part 6 · 18 mentions · 29 March 1987
    “IT IS NOT only Zarathustra who is disappointed in man as he is.”
  21. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #11: Of the friend · 18 mentions · 31 March 1987
    “Zarathustra has spoken on the subject with great insight.”
  22. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #18: Of the bestowing virtue, part 2 · 18 mentions · 5 April 1987
    “These words of Zarathustra are too important to be forgotten.”
  23. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #17: Of the bestowing virtue, part 1 · 17 mentions · 4 April 1987
    “MAN HAS ALWAYS thought about the meaning of virtue, but no man has ever brought the dimension that Zarathustra brings to the world of virtues.”
  24. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #2: Prologue part 2 · 16 mentions · 27 March 1987
    “Zarathustra and all the mystics have gone to the mountains in search of aloneness.”
  25. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #20: On the blissful islands · 16 mentions · 6 April 1987
    “Zarathustra wants to show that the very idea of a creator of the world destroys our freedom.”
  26. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #22: Of the priests · 16 mentions · 7 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is not alone in condemning the priests.”
  27. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #17: Of old and new law tables part 1 · 16 mentions · 16 April 1987
    “Zarathustra believes in only one religion: the religion of evolution.”
  28. Books I Have Loved #1 · 15 mentions
    “Even if Nietzsche had not written anything else but THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA he would have served humanity immensely, profoundly -- more cannot be expected from any man -- because Zarathustra had been almost forgotten.”
  29. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #7: Of the three metamorphoses · 15 mentions · 29 March 1987
    “Zarathustra divides the evolution of consciousness into three symbols: the camel, the lion, and the child.”
  30. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #15: Of justice · 15 mentions · 3 April 1987
    “Zarathustra would not agree with this.”
  31. The Messiah, Vol 2 #14: A dewdrop cannot offend the ocean · 14 mentions · 5 February 1987
    “Zarathustra balances Jesus.”
  32. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #3: Of scholars · 14 mentions · 9 April 1987
    “According to Zarathustra, the highest stage of consciousness is that of a child.”
  33. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #8: The wanderer · 14 mentions · 11 April 1987
    “He can be born as a man, and he can die as a Zarathustra, or as a Gautam Buddha, or as a Jesus Christ -- who have transcended humanity and reached to a new space you can call enlightenment, you can call awakening, you can call godliness, but something superhum…”
  34. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #16: Of the spirit of gravity part 2 · 14 mentions · 15 April 1987
    “Zarathustra denies it totally.”
  35. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #5: Prologue part 5 · 13 mentions · 28 March 1987
    “THESE WORDS OF Zarathustra have always struck me very deeply for the simple reason that each of the statements seems to be my own, as if not Zarathustra's, but I am speaking, because whatever he is saying is my experience, too.”
  36. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #13: Of love of one's neighbor · 13 mentions · 2 April 1987
    “With Zarathustra, you have to be very silent, remembering that you are encountering an utterly unique person who speaks to the depths of your very being, of which you are not aware.”
  37. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #21: Of the compassionate · 13 mentions · 6 April 1987
    “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.”
  38. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #5: Of redemption · 13 mentions · 10 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is absolutely clear that religions have destroyed man's integrity.”
  39. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #15: Of the spirit of gravity part 1 · 13 mentions · 15 April 1987
    “Just as things are pulled downwards by the earth and we call it the force of gravity, so something in man also pulls him downwards, which Zarathustra calls the Spirit of Gravity.”
  40. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #10: Before sunrise · 12 mentions · 12 April 1987
    “Zarathustra cannot speak except in poetry.”
  41. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #13: The home-coming · 12 mentions · 14 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is saying, O SOLITUDE!”
  42. Peevat Ramras Lagi Khumari #8 · 12 mentions · 18 January 1981
    “He requested me, both personally and in writing, to speak someday on Zarathustra.”
  43. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #10: Of the new idol and of the flies of the marketplace · 11 mentions · 31 March 1987
    “Zarathustra is absolutely against the state.”
  44. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #18: Of old and new law-tables part 2 · 11 mentions · 16 April 1987
    “Zarathustra was a contemporary of Heraclitus and Gautam Buddha.”
  45. Piya Kokhojan Main Chali #4 · 11 mentions · 4 June 1980
    “The Parsis may have gone far and wandered through many jungles, yet in their wandering there are still tones of Zarathustra—some buried voice that can be aroused.”
  46. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #7: Of the stillest hour · 10 mentions · 11 April 1987
    “Zarathustra wants to depart from his disciples, to go again into solitude.”
  47. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #9: Of blissful islands · 10 mentions · 12 April 1987
    “A man like Zarathustra is almost a gardener, looking after people with love and care and waiting for the time when they will be able to bring forth flowers and fruits.”
  48. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #16: Of voluntary death · 9 mentions · 4 April 1987
    “Zarathustra has a few very important things to say about it.”
  49. Satyam Shivam Sundram #20: The radiation of enlightenment · 8 mentions · 16 November 1987
    “This is the fire that Zarathustra taught his disciples to worship.”
  50. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 6 #10: Happiness: the death of the ego · 8 mentions · 30 October 1979
    “Conscious people have proved dangerous; a Jesus, a Buddha, a Zarathustra, these people have proved dangerous.”
  51. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #23: The night song · 8 mentions · 7 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is not one of them.”
  52. The Guest #14: I am not a person · 7 mentions · 9 May 1979
    “Zarathustra is entrusted by Nietzsche with the task of conveying the news of God's death to the world.”
  53. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #23: Of laughter and dance · 7 mentions · 19 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is absolutely right when he says, WHAT HAS BEEN THE GREATEST SIN HERE ON EARTH?”
  54. Far Beyond the Stars #16: I am not a guru -- at the most a friend · 6 mentions · 19 July 1977
    “There is a parable in Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Thus spake Zarathustra'....”
  55. Is the Grass Really Greener...? #13 · 6 mentions · 14 December 1980
    “There is the religion of Zarathustra.”
  56. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 1 #1: The Greatest Luxury · 6 mentions · 21 December 1978
    “Or Lao Tzu, or Zarathustra, or Moses....”
  57. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 11 #3: The quiet way to the happy country · 6 mentions · 13 April 1980
    “Only once in a while do you find a Buddha or a Jesus or a Zarathustra who talks about joy, who talks about living in bliss.”
  58. The Mahageeta, Vol 1 #1: Ashtavakra: The Purest Expression of Truth · 6 mentions · 11 September 1976
    “Zarathustra's story is that he burst out laughing as soon as he was born.”
  59. Maha Geeta #1 · 6 mentions · 11 September 1976
    “About Zarathustra there is the story that as soon as he was born he burst into laughter.”
  60. Sanch Sanch So Sanch #1 · 6 mentions · 21 January 1981
    “While giving sannyas to someone I said: “Zarathustra said: awaken the fire within you, for that fire is life, that fire is God.””
  61. No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity #4: In your eyes is the hope of the world · 5 mentions · 29 December 1988
    “Zarathustra was talking about this same fire, but his people have carried fire, ordinary fire, from Persia to India, persecuted by the Mohammedans.”
  62. The Perfect Master, Vol 2 #4: How Can You Deceive? · 5 mentions · 4 July 1978
    “Buddha also discovered something, Zarathustra also discovered something, but it is not like Albert Einstein's discovery.”
  63. The Wild Geese and the Water #14: The Bird has Flown · 5 mentions · 24 February 1981
    “Buddha is a Christ Zarathustra is a Christ, Lao Tzu is a Christ and there have been many many Christs after Jesus: Bodhidharma Lin Chi Kabir Nanak -- the long long river of Christ-consciousness continues.”
  64. Zarathustra: A God That Can Dance #14: Of the way of the creator · 5 mentions · 3 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is talking about the way of the creator.”
  65. From Personality to Individuality #3: Beware! I am here to destroy your dreams · 4 mentions · 1 January 1985
    “Krishna, Christ, Mahavira or Buddha, Zarathustra...”
  66. Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 1 #1: On The Absolute Tao · 4 mentions · 11 June 1975
    “I speak on Zarathustra -- very rarely, but I love the man as a friend loves another friend.”
  67. The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 4 #11: Collecting pebbles on the seashore of life · 4 mentions · 10 November 1976
    “When Zarathustra was saying goodbye to his disciples, the last thing that he said to his disciples has to be remembered.”
  68. The Golden Future #10: Life is not short life is eternal · 4 mentions · 27 April 1987
    “Devaprem, Zarathustra has no idea about a stubborn mule; you seem to belong to a totally different category.”
  69. The Secret of Secrets, Vol 1 #1: Animus and Anima · 4 mentions · 11 August 1978
    “But it is not only that -- Zarathustra has played a role.”
  70. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 #20: Liberation from yourself · 4 mentions · 1 July 1973
    “The last thing Zarathustra said to his disciples is very beautiful.”
  71. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #19: Of old and new law-tables part 3 · 4 mentions · 17 April 1987
    “Zarathustra is giving you one of the golden keys that opens the mysteries of life.”
  72. Jyon Ki Tyon #13 · 4 mentions
    “They say there was only one mistake made in the world—only once did it happen that a child, Zarathustra, laughed while being born.”
  73. Maha Geeta #27 · 4 mentions · 7 October 1976
    “Zarathustra has a precious saying.”
  74. Maha Geeta #47 · 4 mentions · 27 November 1976
    “In Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, when Zarathustra was to bid farewell to his disciples, he said: “The last message.”
  75. Sahaj Samadhi Bhali #4 · 4 mentions · 24 July 1974
    “Nietzsche wrote a remarkable book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.”
  76. Samadhi Ke Dwar Par #6 · 4 mentions · 24 February 1970
    “Zarathustra was descending a mountain; his disciples said, Give us a final message, because he was taking leave.”
  77. A Sudden Clash of Thunder #4: Man is Always an Opening · 3 mentions · 14 August 1976
    “Yes, Buddha was evolved, so was Jesus; Mahavir was evolved, so was Mohammed; Krishna was evolved, so was Zarathustra -- so what!”
  78. Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master #17: Take the risk wholesale · 3 mentions · 13 July 1987
    “They are all unique: a Zarathustra is a Zarathustra, a Mahavira is a Mahavira, a Buddha is a Buddha, a Jesus is a Jesus, a Moses is a Moses ...they are so unique that you should not make one of them a criterion that everybody else has to fit with.”
  79. Going All the Way #23 · 3 mentions · 23 November 1980
    “Zarathustra was the greatest fire worshipper, and the followers of Zarathustra have carried on the fire that Zarathustra started.”
  80. I Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here #1: The grand rebellion · 3 mentions · 13 February 1989
    “Friedrich Nietzsche in his, THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, comes to a point where Zarathustra is coming down from his mountain cave where he has lived many, many years.”
  81. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #8: Live in Eternity · 3 mentions · 30 October 1977
    “If you can understand Buddha, and Jesus and Moses and Mohammed and Mahavir and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu, your richness is growing.”
  82. Just the Tip of the Iceberg #13 · 3 mentions · 13 September 1980
    “It is beautiful to be a lover of Christ because love is vast; you can be a lover of Christ and at the same time a lover of Buddha and a lover of Lao Tzu and a lover of Zarathustra and a lover of me.”
  83. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #1: The Golden Mean · 3 mentions · 31 December 1978
    “The modern philosopher has no beauty compared to Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Buddha, Socrates, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra.”
  84. Revolution in Education #6: Fire of Rebellion · 3 mentions · 12 February 1969
    “Zarathustra was coming down a hill.”
  85. Sufis: The People of the Path, Vol 1 #7: From Robopathology to Enlightenment · 3 mentions · 17 August 1977
    “That's why there is no way to compare Buddha, Mohammed, Mansoor, Christ, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra -- there is no way.”
  86. Tao: The Golden Gate, Vol 2 #5: This Moment is All · 3 mentions · 25 June 1980
    “In fact, we have to learn how to live religions while there is a Jesus, a Buddha, a Krishna, a Zarathustra.”
  87. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 11 #7: Beyond the beyond · 3 mentions · 17 April 1980
    “By loving a Buddha, a Christ, a Zarathustra, a Krishna, a Lao Tzu, a deep trust arises in you about the farther shore -- that it exists: "If I search with my total being there is a possibility I may discover it."”
  88. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3 #9: A small candle · 3 mentions · 20 August 1979
    “It is said that when Zarathustra was born...”
  89. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 8 #6: I call a spade a spade · 3 mentions · 26 December 1979
    “I can rather believe a very fictitious story about Zarathustra -- that the first thing he did when he was born was to laugh loudly.”
  90. The First Principle #2: Greed behind greed behind greed · 3 mentions · 12 April 1977
    “Zarathustra is leaving his disciples and they ask him, "What is your last message?"”
  91. The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty #4: Wake Up! Wake Up! · 3 mentions · 14 April 1979
    “And the same is the case with Zarathustra, another beautiful story.”
  92. The Golden Future #8: You have forgotten the way home · 3 mentions · 26 April 1987
    “This will not bring you to what Zarathustra calls, "the great noontide", but it is a good beginning.”
  93. The Golden Future #13: Nothing goes right without meditation · 3 mentions · 18 May 1987
    “But everybody can be a Zarathustra, because the spiritual realization is everybody's birthright.”
  94. The Guest #15: From zero learning to learning zero · 3 mentions · 10 May 1979
    “What I am saying is according to Buddha, Krishna, Christ, Kabir, Farid, Bahaudin, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, but not according to any tradition.”
  95. The Hidden Harmony #6: Here, Too, Are the Gods · 3 mentions · 26 December 1974
    “And Zarathustra is right: he made fire the suprememost god.”
  96. The Old Pond ... Plop #18 · 3 mentions · 18 January 1981
    “Buddha knows, Jesus knows, Lao Tzu knows, Zarathustra knows, so what is the point?”
  97. Theologia Mystica #2: God is a Ventriloquist · 3 mentions · 12 August 1980
    “It is said the first thing that Zarathustra did in his life was to laugh the moment he was born.”
  98. Bahuri Na Aiso Daon #10 · 3 mentions · 10 August 1980
    “Jains think only their Tirthankaras “make” tirthas—as if Zarathustra did not; as if Buddha did not; as if Lao Tzu did not; as if Jesus did not!”
  99. Es Dhammo Sanantano #99 · 3 mentions · 8 June 1977
    “Whether Krishna or Christ, Zarathustra or Mahavira, Buddha or Saraha—all are ours.”
  100. Jas Panihar Dhare Sir Gagar #6 · 3 mentions · 5 February 1978
    “In Zarathustra’s mirror too fell a glimpse of the real sun.”
  101. Kaivalya Upanishad #3 · 3 mentions · 26 March 1972
    “In that inner cave, Zarathustra discovered, Zarathustra knew — entering the inner cave he saw the flame that burns without fuel, without oil, eternal, never extinguished — that is the form of life, that is life itself.”
  102. Maha Geeta #82 · 3 mentions · 1 February 1977
    “And here are Moses, Zarathustra—very distinctive!”
  103. Prem Panth Aiso Kathin #7 · 3 mentions · 2 April 1979
    “It is said that people are born crying; about Zarathustra it is told that he alone is the child who was born laughing.”
  104. Ram Duware Jo Mare #2 · 3 mentions · 26 May 1974
    “The stories say only one man was born laughing—Zarathustra.”
  105. Shiksha Main Kranti #12 · 3 mentions · 12 February 1969
    “Zarathustra was coming down from a mountain.”
  106. Tao Upanishad #106 · 3 mentions · 7 February 1975
    “When Zarathustra was taking leave of his disciples, he said: “Now the last message—beware of Zarathustra!””