| Zorba The Greek is the iconic role played by the | | | | earth without the sky will be dead. Both together - and |
| famous Hollywood actor the late Anthony Quinn. In his | | | | a dance comes into existence. The earth and the sky |
| most memorable role, Quinn played a middle-aged | | | | dancing together - and there is laughter, there is joy, |
| rough guide who celebrates life in film during the Sixties | | | | there is celebration. You have to be whole: rich in the |
| - 'Zorba The Greek' - that won three Oscars. Based | | | | body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in |
| on the novel of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis, | | | | consciousness. Only a whole person is a holy person, |
| the main character, Zorba eats, drinks, sings, dances; | | | | according to me." |
| he lives, loves and laughs passionately, totally. Enjoying | | | | After what we have suffered in the last decade, for |
| all his senses, he relishes every moment of his life that | | | | the new decade, a new man is needed - Zorba and |
| is just a game for him. | | | | Buddha . Zorba alone is hollow. His dance has not an |
| In Gautama the Buddha, the world knows an Indian | | | | eternal significance, it is momentary pleasure. Soon he |
| prince who abandons his luxurious life – his palaces, | | | | will be tired of it. Unless you have inexhaustible |
| his pleasures, his princess and even his infant son - to | | | | sources, available to you from the cosmos itself... |
| search his true self in the forest. He starves himself, | | | | unless you become existential, you cannot become |
| denies himself until he becomes quiet, calm, still, | | | | whole. The whole person can achieve goals, targets, |
| peaceful, silent, and serene. Finally, he becomes | | | | results, deadlines and all it entails and yet live, love and |
| enlightened. | | | | laugh. |
| Can Zorba be combined with Buddha? | | | | If we want a whole man — and a whole man is the |
| Naah! One cannot imagine a Buddha who celebrates | | | | only holy man — then Zorba has to be absorbed into |
| life, who dances and sings and laughs or a Zorba who | | | | Buddha. They have to be accepted totally as one. |
| sits still, seriously, silently, unsmilingly - and yet this is the | | | | Buddha cannot laugh, cannot dance, cannot sing, |
| combination of two polar opposites Osho presents us | | | | cannot love. Now what kind of life will it be? Hollow! |
| as the only alternative to our current madness of the | | | | Zorba can sing, dance, enjoy food, drink, love. He will |
| marketplace. The two opposites can never meet until | | | | have a life, but he will not know who he is. He will not |
| Osho declared that not only they should but they must, | | | | know the meaning of existence. |
| if the modern man is to survive. | | | | Zorba the Buddha will create a unity in you; your body |
| Says Osho, "Zorba is the roots in the earth, and the | | | | and soul will have a unity. You will not have to fight |
| Buddha is a longing to fly into ultimate freedom, to | | | | against your nature, you can use it as a stepping |
| reach to the space, which is unbounded. I would like | | | | stone. There is no need to fight, there is no need to |
| you to be Zorba the Greek and Gautama the Buddha | | | | repress. If you are one, you would like to dance in the |
| together, simultaneously. Less than that won't do. | | | | open air under the sun. That will be your real prayer. |
| Zorba represents the earth with all its flowers and | | | | Nothing is said, nothing is asked, but you are showing |
| greenery and mountains and rivers and oceans. | | | | your gratitude to existence. Zorba the Buddha will not |
| Buddha represents the sky with all its stars and clouds, | | | | only destroy the split in man, it will destroy the split in |
| and the rainbows. The sky without the earth will be | | | | society. He meditates in the marketplace. |
| empty. The sky cannot laugh without the earth. The | | | | |