Zarathustra A God That Can Dance ~ 14
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 3 Apr 1987 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 2min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA114 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Of the way of the creator.
- My brother, do you want to go apart and be alone? Do you want to seek the way to yourself? Pause just a moment and listen to me.
- 'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone' -- thus speaks the herd.
- The voice of the herd will still ring within you. And when you say: 'We have no longer the same conscience, you and I', it will be a lament and a grief.
- For see, it is still this same conscience that causes your grief: and the last glimmer of this conscience still glows in your affliction.
- But you want to go the way of your affliction, which is the way to yourself? If so, show me your strength for it and your right to it!
- Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-propelling wheel? Can you also compel stars to revolve about you?
- Alas, there is so much lusting for eminence! There is so much convulsion of the ambitious!...
- Alas, there are so many great ideas that do no more than a bellows: they inflate and make emptier.
- Do you call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling idea, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
- Are you such a man as ought to escape a yoke? There are many who threw off their final worth when they threw off their bondage.
- Free from what? Zarathustra does not care about that! But your eye should clearly tell me: free for what?
- Can you furnish yourself with your own good and evil and hang up your own will above yourself as a law? Can you be judge of yourself and avenger of your law?
- It is terrible to be alone with the judge and avenger of one's own law. It is to be like a star thrown forth into empty space and into the icy breath of solitude.
- Today you still suffer from the many, o man set apart: today you still have your courage whole and your hopes.
- But one day solitude will make you weary, one day your pride will bend and your courage break. One day you will cry: 'I am alone!'
- One day you will no longer see what is exalted in you; and what is base in you, you will see all too closely; your sublimity itself will make you afraid, as if it were a phantom. One day you will cry: 'Everything is false!'
- There are emotions that seek to kill the solitary; if they do not succeed, well, they must die themselves! But are you capable of being a murderer?...
- You compel many to change their opinion about you; they hold that very much against you. You approached them and yet went on past them: that they will never forgive you.
- You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all....
- And be on your guard against the good and just! They would like to crucify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the solitary.
- Be on your guard, too, against holy simplicity! Everything which is not simple is unholy to it: and it, too, likes to play with fire -- in this case, the fire of the stake.
- And be on your guard, too, against the assaults your love makes upon you! The solitary extends his hand too quickly to anyone he meets.
- To many men, you ought not to give your hand, but only your paw: and I should like it if your paw had claws, too....
- You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?...
- Go apart and be alone with my tears, my brother. I love him who wants to create beyond himself, and thus perishes.
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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