Zarathustra A God That Can Dance ~ 20
event type | discourse |
date & time | 6 Apr 1987 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 42min. Quality: good, but a constant noise (under revision). |
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video | Available, duration 1h 52min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | ZARA120 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- On the blissful islands
- Zarathustra has returned to the mountains where he lives a solitary existence for many years -- until one morning he has a dream.
- Filled with new resolve and an overwhelming desire to share his words with his friends, Zarathustra speaks thus: behold, what abundance is around us! And it is fine to gaze out upon distant seas from the midst of superfluity.
- Once you said 'god' when you gazed upon distant seas; but now I have taught you to say 'superman'.
- God is a supposition; but I want your supposing to reach no further than your creating will.
- Could you create a god? -- so be silent about all gods! But you could surely create the superman.
- Perhaps not you yourselves, my brothers! But you could transform yourselves into forefathers and ancestors of the superman: and let this be your finest creating!
- God is a supposition: but I want your supposing to be bounded by conceivability.
- Could you conceive a god? -- but may the will to truth mean this to you: that everything shall be transformed into the humanly-conceivable, the humanly-evident, the humanly-palpable! You should follow your own senses to the end!
- And you yourselves should create what you have hitherto called the world: the world should be formed in your image by your reason, your will, and your love! And truly, it will be to your happiness, you enlightened men!...
- But to reveal my heart entirely to you, friends: if there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god! Therefore there are no gods.
- I, indeed, drew that conclusion; but now it draws me.
- God is a supposition: but who could imbibe all the anguish of this supposition without dying? Shall the creator be robbed of his faith and the eagle of his soaring into the heights?...
- I call it evil and misanthropic, all this teaching about the one and the perfect and the unmoved and the sufficient and the intransitory....
- But the best images and parables should speak of time and becoming: they should be an eulogy and a justification of all transitoriness....
- All feeling suffers in me and is in prison: but my willing always comes to me as my liberator and bringer of joy.
- Willing liberates: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom.
- ... Thus Zarathustra teaches you.
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