Zarathustra, the laughing prophet: Talks on Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus spoke Zarathustra (v. 2)

By Osho

Osho uses Nietzsche's diatribe against man's beliefs in his own impotence as a medium to clarify the true nature of the superman This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3893380086
• ISBN13: 9783893380084
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Rebel Publishing House
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Buddhist panopticon

Reviewing a book on Wagner and Hitler (Kohler's Wagner's Hitler, and Magee's The Tristan Chord) one feels stymied. The discourse is crippled by the inability to make unsupportaed charges, even as New Age underground rumour passes the non-facts. I looked at this again in search of Rajneesh's little known or forgotten bombshell on Buddhists and Nazism in his hundreds of books. Unfortunately, it wasn't this one (books hard to get!)but it is an interesting piece, an historical first (almost, consider Aurobindo)by a Buddha on Nietzsche in a polite musing on his overman/underdog theme with a suggestion so and so's get packed off to Zen monasteries in such dire straits. Nietzsche was like a greenhorn waltzing into a saloon twirling his sixshooter with a 'Hey dudes, here I am'. That's ok if that's the way you want to go. But humility, however insincere, can be learned to some degree via cowardice, and some knowledge of the competition--fairly outmatched one thinks. In the fact there is none: There are no overmen, only wannabe's and samsaric has-beens. In nature's economy, the 'overman' goes through an 'it's all over' termination phase, over and out.In fact, these two resemble each other, in coming to a bad end. That flaw in Nietzsche's game seems to belie the genius in overdrive fantasy. Art, evil, and Zarathustra is a potent mix. Meanwhile one reviews the videotape on Wagner trying to find the clues in the planted tidbits on Buddhism, the distorted Schopenhauer strain, and the appearance of the disastrous point of no return plot against the Jews. Somewhere there was the perfect crime. We need a new kind of private eye to sort all this out, now, before the end times.