Zarathustra A God That Can Dance ~ 03
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 27 Mar 1987 pm |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 48min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 2min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA103 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Prologue part 3
- When Zarathustra arrived at the nearest of the towns lying against the forest, he found in that very place many people assembled in the market square: for it had been announced that a tight-rope walker would be appearing. And Zarathustra spoke thus to the people:
- I teach you the superman. Man is something that should be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?
- All creatures hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and do you want to be the ebb of this great tide, and return to the animals rather than overcome man?
- What is the ape to men? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just so shall man be to the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.
- You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now man is more of an ape than any ape.
- But he who is the wisest among you, he also is only a discord and hybrid of plant and of ghost. But do I bid you become ghosts or plants?
- Behold, I teach you the superman.
- The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
- I entreat you, my brothers, remain true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of superterrestrial hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not....
- Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy, but God died, and thereupon these blasphemers died too. To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful offence and to esteem the bowels of the inscrutable more highly than the meaning of the earth.
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