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How could a man like Adolf Hitler love? He had no sympathy, no feeling, he had no heart, no feminine side to him.
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Such fear! He was afraid that while he was asleep… one never knows, the girlfriend may be a girl-foe she may be an agent working for the enemy. He would not even allow his own girlfriend to be alone with him in his room at night. He tried, as many husbands do unfortunately, to dictate, to order, to maneuver and manipulate women – but he was unable to love. Hitler could not love, although he tried in his dictatorial way. To be a friend one needs to be a little relaxed.
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He was so tense that he could not even be friendly to anybody throughout his whole life. Just remember his face – that small mustache, those fearful eyes staring as though trying to make you fearful, and the tense forehead. Adolf Hitler was a juvenile mediocrity, a retarded child, really ugly. What could Nietzsche do about it? If you misunderstand me, what can I do about it? Misunderstanding is always your freedom. It was Hitler’s own misunderstanding of Nietzsche’s idea of ’superman’. Of course, he was not responsible for Adolf Hitler. Nietzsche’s great service was in bringing Zarathustra back to the modern world. And through the middle goes The Way – Buddha calls it the middle way – exactly in the middle, just like a tightrope walker. They escaped the well and fell into the ditch – a deeper ditch! On one side the well, the other side the ditch. They have compromised with the Hindus with whom they have to live. Even they themselves have forgotten Zarathustra. Now, who bothers about a religion of only one hundred thousand – who not only almost all live just in India, but in and around only one city, Bombay. There are not many in India, only one hundred thousand. Only very few followers of Zarathustra escaped the Mohammedan murderers. India was the place where everybody could enter without a passport or visa, without any trouble. Only a few, very few, escaped – to India, where else. The Mohammedans had forced all the followers of Zarathustra to become Mohammedans. But before Friedrich Nietzsche, he was forgotten. Zarathustra must be laughing at his name being changed to Zoroaster. What a monstrosity! “Zarathustra” has the softness of a rose petal, and “Zoroaster” sounds like a huge mechanical disaster. The English have even changed his name, they called him “Zoroaster”. Zarathustra at his birth, laughing! And that was only a beginning. But when I don’t want to hear, I pretend not to hear, just to give you the good feeling that everything is going good. When I want to see I can see in darkness, utter darkness. Do you see how good my hearing is? When I want to, I can hear even the sound of drawing a sketch, a leaf. Yes, write in your notes the cosmic joke and underline it. At what joke was the baby Zarathustra laughing? The cosmic joke, at the joke this whole existence is.
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Okay, smiling – but laughing? One wonders at what, because laughter needs a context. It is very difficult to imagine a new-born baby laughing. It is said that Zarathustra laughed when he was born. Thus Spake Zarathustra is going to be the bible of the future. It was Nietzsche who brought him back, who again gave him birth, a resurrection. Following is a list of the books mentioned in each chapter.Įven 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. A book of these sessions was published with the title Books I Have Loved. Osho’s disciple Devageet took notes while Osho was describing the list of books he loved and why he loved them. Here’s a list of books that Osho himself dictated as his ‘favorites’. It is said that he read more than 100,000 books.