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What is the nature of truth according to Nietzsche?

Truth reveals itself only to those who are powerful yet harmless, overflowing with joy and inner silence, for it is not a logical idea but an awakened being.

— Osho
According to Osho, Nietzsche rightly intuited that truth is not a consolation for the sick mind but reveals itself only to souls that are simultaneously powerful and harmless, overflowing with joy, peace, and inner silence. Such celebrative, nonserious, dancing consciousness discovers truth directly—not as a logical idea, but as awakened being.

Truth shows itself to people who are strong and kind, happy and calm—not to those just looking for comfort.

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I Celebrate Myself God Is No Where Life Is Now Here · Discourse 7
1989-02-19 · Gautam the Buddha Auditorium · English
Question: Maneesha's question: OUR BELOVED MASTER, NIETZSCHE SUGGESTS THAT MAN ONLY SEARCHES FOR TRUTH BECAUSE HE PRESUPPOSES THAT TRUTH IS A CONSOLATION, A CURE. BUT, HE SAYS, PERHAPS TRUTH "EXISTS ONLY FOR SOULS WHICH ARE AT ONCE POWERFUL AND HARMLESS, AND FULL OF JOY AND PEACE ... JUST AS IT WILL NO DOUBT BE ONLY SUCH SOULS AS THESE THAT WILL BE CAPABLE OF SEEKING TRUTH." DO YOU AGREE WITH HIM? Jack Jerk stays out late one night and comes home at three o'clock in the morning. He walks into the bedroom and finds his wife Jill Jerk lying awake, naked, in the bed. "Where the hell have you been until three in the morning?" screams Jill, furiously. Ignoring her, Jack takes off his coat and opens the bedroom closet. To his amazement, he finds a naked man crouching on the floor. "Who the hell is this guy?" shouts Jack.
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The Sound Of One Hand Clapping · Discourse 12
1981-03-12 · Chuang Tzu Auditorium · English
truth cannot be achieved by human efforts because all human efforts are bound to originate in the mind and mind is the barrier between truth and consciousness the mind has to be put aside that's what man is capable of doing not using the mind, putting the mind aside by-passing the mind, transcending the mind and the moment the mind is not functioning consciousness immediately becomes connected with the truth the barrier is no more there hence the bridge happens and that is the greatest blessing in existence when truth showers on you only with the experience of truth life becomes meaningful, significant a celebration a man without truth is a beggar a man without truth is not yet really alive he is simply living in a kind of dream he is not awakened not awakened to the tremendous beauty of existence to the immense ecstasy of life not aware…
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Eighty Four Thousand Poems · Discourse 23
1980-04-25 · Chuang Tzu Auditorium · English
First you have to become a little happier, you have to learn to be a little more love-full, joyful; your life has to have the color of a little happiness. Then go into the search for truth and you will be moving in the right direction, because then no lie can ever deceive you. You are no more interested in lies, because you are no more interested in consolation and comfort. Now you are ready to know the naked truth as it is. And to be a seeker of truth is the greatest thing in life. Satbodh One cannot find truth by mere thinking. Thinking is not the process that leads you to the truth. It leads only to inference. And inferences are just inferences, they are hypothetical. They may be true, they may not be true. They are just conjectures, not real conclusions.
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Theologia Mystica · Discourse 8
1980-08-18 · Buddha Hall · English

Osho, is god really dead, as friedrich nietzsche says?

Because the Jewish-Christian-Mohammedan idea of God is not of a very nice fellow; he is not a gentleman. The Jewish God who is at the root of both the Christian and the Mohammedan God says himself, "I am a very jealous God. Those who are against me, I will destroy them. Those who are not with me are against me. Those who are with me will have all the pleasures of heaven, and those who are not with me will suffer eternal hellfire.'' Nietzsche says, "Rejoice, God is dead! There is no heaven and no hell. Don't be afraid of hell and don't be greedy for heaven, because there is no God. God is dead, and man is absolutely free." This has been done in the East in a far more subtle, delicate way. Mahavira says there is no God -- for the same reason as Nietzsche. Mahavira says if…
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Just The Tip Of The Iceberg · Discourse 11
1980-09-11 · Chuang Tzu Auditorium · English
Friedrich Nietzsche said, "Don't take away the lies from people, otherwise they will die." And in a way he is right that people cannot live without lies, they need comfortable lies; hence Christianity exists, Hinduism exists, Buddhism exists. All these organised religions have nothing to do with truth. Their whole existence depends on there being cowards who constantly need to be comforted, consoled. They don't want the truth because truth means you have to go on a long pilgrimage, the longest journey. But if you have courage the journey becomes smaller. The greater the courage, the shorter is the journey. If the courage is total then in a single step, like sudden lightning, one reaches the peak.
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