Zarathustra A God That Can Dance ~ 12
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 1 Apr 1987 am |
| 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 1h 56min. Quality: good, but a constant audio-noise. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA112 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Of the thousand and one goals
- No people could live without evaluating; but if it wishes to maintain itself it must not evaluate as its neighbor evaluates.
- Much that seemed good to one people seemed shame and disgrace to another: thus I found. I found much that was called evil in one place was in another decked with purple honours....
- A table of values hangs over every people. Behold, it is the table of its overcomings; behold, it is the voice of its will to power.
- What it accounts hard it calls praiseworthy; what it accounts indispensable and hard it calls good; and that which relieves the greatest need, the rare, the hardest of all -- it glorifies as holy.
- Whatever causes it to rule and conquer and glitter, to the dread and envy of its neighbor, that it accounts the sublimest, the paramount, the evaluation and the meaning of all things....
- Man first implanted values into things to maintain himself -- he created the meaning of things, a human meaning! Therefore he calls himself: 'man', that is: the evaluator.
- Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creative men! Valuating is itself the value and jewel of all valued things.
- Only through evaluation is there value: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creative men!
- A change in values -- that means a change in the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
- Peoples were the creators at first; only later were individuals creators. Indeed, the individual himself is still the latest creation....
- It has always been creators and loving men who created good and evil. Fire of love and fire of anger glow in the names of all virtues.
- Zarathustra has seen many lands and many peoples: Zarathustra has found no greater power on earth than the works of these loving men: these works are named 'good' and 'evil'.
- Truly, the power of this praising and blaming is a monster....
- Hitherto there have been a thousand goals, for there have been a thousand peoples. Only fetters are still lacking for these thousand necks, the one goal is still lacking.
- Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking -- humanity itself?
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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