Zarathustra A God That Can Dance ~ 21
event type | discourse |
date & time | 6 Apr 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 49min. Quality: good, but a constant noise (under revision). |
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video | Available, duration 2h 4min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | ZARA121 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Of the compassionate
- As long as men have existed, man has enjoyed himself too little: that alone, my brothers, is our original sin!
- And if we learn better to enjoy ourselves, we best unlearn how to do harm to others and to contrive harm.
- Therefore I wash my hand when it has helped a sufferer, therefore I wipe my soul clean as well.
- For I saw the sufferer suffer, and because I saw it I was ashamed on account of his shame; and when I helped him, then I sorely injured his pride....
- 'Be reserved in accepting! Honour a man by accepting from him!' -- thus I advise those who have nothing to give.
- I, however, am a giver: I give gladly as a friend to friends. But strangers and the poor may pluck the fruit from my tree for themselves: it causes less shame that way....
- And we are the most unfair, not towards him whom we do not like, but towards him for whom we feel nothing at all.
- But if you have a suffering friend, be a resting-place for his suffering, but a resting-place like a hard bed, a camp-bed: thus you will serve him best.
- And should your friend do you a wrong, then say: 'I forgive you what you did to me; but that you did it to yourself -- how could I forgive that?'
- Thus speaks all great love: it overcomes even forgiveness and pity....
- Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate?
- Woe to all lovers who cannot surmount pity!
- Thus spoke the devil to me once: 'Even God has his hell: it is his love for man....'
- So be warned against pity: thence shall yet come a heavy cloud for man! Truly, I understand weather-signs!
- But mark, too, this saying: all great love is above pity: for it wants -- to create what is loved!
- 'I offer myself to my love, and my neighbor as myself' -- that is the language of all creators.
- All creators, however, are hard.
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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