Zarathustra A God That Can Dance ~ 11
event type | discourse |
date & time | 31 Mar 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 2h 9min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 15min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | ZARA111 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Of the friend
- Our faith in others betrays wherein we would dearly like to have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer.
- And often with our love we only want to leap over envy. And often we attack and make an enemy in order to conceal that we are vulnerable to attack.
- 'At least be my enemy!' -- thus speaks the true reverence that does not venture to ask for friendship.
- If you want a friend, you must also be willing to wage war for him: and to wage war, you must be capable of being an enemy.
- You should honour even the enemy in your friend. Can you go near to your friend without going over to him?
- In your friend you should possess your best enemy. Your heart should feel closest to him when you oppose him....
- He who makes no secret of himself excites anger in others: that is how much reason you have to fear nakedness. If you were gods you could then be ashamed of your clothes!
- You cannot adorn yourself too well for your friend: for you should be to him an arrow and a longing for the superman.
- Have you ever watched your friend asleep -- to discover what he looked like? Yet your friend's face is something else beside. It is your own face, in a rough and imperfect mirror....
- Are you pure air... and bread and medicine to your friend? Many a one cannot deliver himself from his own chains and yet he is his friend's deliverer.
- Are you a slave? If so, you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? If so, you cannot have friends.
- In a woman, a slave and a tyrant have all too long been concealed. For that reason, woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knows only love.
- In a woman's love is injustice and blindness towards all that she does not love. And in the enlightened love of a woman too, there is still the unexpected attack and lightning and night, along with the light.
- Woman is not yet capable of friendship: women are still cats and birds. Or, at best, cows.
- Woman is not yet capable of friendship. But tell me, you men, which of you is yet capable of friendship?...
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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