Zarathustra A God That Can Dance ~ 17
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 4 Apr 1987 pm |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 38min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 48min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA117 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Of the bestowing virtue part 1
- Tell me: how did gold come to have the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and shining and mellow in lustre; it always bestows itself.
- Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold come to have the highest value. Gold-like gleams the glance of the giver.... The highest virtue is uncommon and useless, it is shining and mellow in lustre: the highest virtue is a bestowing virtue.
- Truly, I divine you well, my disciples, you aspire to the bestowing virtue, as I do....
- You thirst to become sacrifices and gifts yourselves; and that is why you thirst to heap up all riches in your soul.
- Your soul aspires insatiably after treasures and jewels, because your virtue is insatiable in wanting to give.
- You compel all things to come to you and into you, that they may flow back from your fountain as gifts of your love.
- Truly, such a bestowing love must become a thief of all values; but I call this selfishness healthy and holy....
- Our mind flies upward: thus it is an image of our bodies, an image of an advance and elevation.
- The names of the virtues are such images of advances and elevations.
- Thus the body goes through history, evolving and battling. And the spirit -- what is it to the body? The herald, companion, and echo of its battles and victories.
- All names of good and evil are images: they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
- Whenever your spirit wants to speak in images, pay heed; for that is when your virtue has its origin and beginning.
- Then your body is elevated and risen up; it enraptures the spirit with its joy, that it may become creator and evaluator and lover and benefactor of all things.
- When your heart surges broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those who live nearby: that is when your virtue has its origin and beginning.
- When you are exalted above praise and blame, and your will wants to command all things as the will of a lover: that is when your virtue has its origin and beginning....
- When you are willers of a single will, and you call this dispeller of need your essential and necessity: that is when your virtue has its origin and beginning.
- Truly, it is a new good and evil! Truly, a new roaring in the depths and the voice of a new fountain!
- It is power, this new virtue; it is a ruling idea, and around it a subtle soul: a golden sun, and around it the serpent of knowledge.
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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