Zarathustra A God That Can Dance ~ 22
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 7 Apr 1987, 8:00 |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 6min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 14min. Quality: good, but a slight, constant audio-noise. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA122 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Of the priests
- And one day Zarathustra made a sign to his disciples and spoke these words to them:
- Here are priests: and although they are my enemies, pass them by quietly and with sleeping swords!...
- They are bad enemies: nothing is more revengeful than their humility. And he who touches them is easily defiled....
- He whom they call redeemer has cast them into bondage -- into the bondage of false values and false scriptures! Ah, that someone would redeem them from their redeemer!... Oh, just look at these huts that these priests have built themselves. Churches they call their sweet-smelling caves!
- Oh this counterfeit light! Oh this musty air! Here, where the soul may not fly up to its height!
- On the contrary, their faith commands: 'Up the steps on your knees, you sinners!'...
- Who created such caves and penitential steps? Was it not those who wanted to hide themselves and were ashamed before the clear sky?
- And only when the clear sky again looks through broken roofs and down upon grass and red poppies on broken walls -- only then will I turn my heart again towards the places of this God.
- They called God that which contradicted and harmed them: and truly, there was much that was heroic in their worship!
- And they knew no other way of loving their God than by nailing men to the cross!...
- They would have to sing better songs to make me believe in their redeemer: his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
- I should like to see them naked: for beauty alone should preach penitence....
- The spirit of their redeemers consisted of holes; but into every hole they had put their illusion, their stop-gap, which they called God....
- Zealously and with clamor they drove their herds over their bridge: as if there were only one bridge to the future! Truly, these shepherds, too, still belonged among the sheep!...
- They wrote letters of blood on the path they followed, and their folly taught that truth is proved by blood.
- But blood is the worst witness of truth; blood poisons and transforms the purest teaching to delusion and hatred of the heart....
- And you, my brothers, must be redeemed by greater men than any redeemer has been, if you would find the way to freedom!
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra.
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