Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet ~ 23
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 19 Apr 1987 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 34min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 44min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZARA223 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- Of laughter and dance
- What has been the greatest sin here on earth? Was it not the saying of him who said: 'Woe to those who laugh!'
- Did he himself find on earth no reason for laughter? If so, he sought badly. Even a child could find reasons.
- He -- did not love sufficiently: otherwise he would also have loved us, the laughers! But he hated and jeered at us, he promised us wailing and gnashing of teeth.
- Does one then straightway have to curse where one does not love? That -- seems to me bad taste. But that is what he did, this uncompromising man. He sprang from the mob.
- And he himself did not love sufficiently: otherwise he would not have been so angry that he was not loved. Great love does not desire love -- it desires more.
- Avoid all such uncompromising men! They are a poor, sick type, a mob type: they look upon this life with an ill will, they have an evil eye for this earth.
- Avoid all such uncompromising men! They have heavy feet and sultry hearts -- they do not know how to dance. How could the earth be light to such men!...
- This laugher's crown, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown on my head, I myself have canonized my laughter. I have found no other strong enough for it today.
- Zarathustra the dancer, Zarathustra the light, who beckons with his wings, ready for flight, beckoning to all birds, prepared and ready, blissfully light-hearted:
- Zarathustra the prophet, Zarathustra the laughing prophet, no impatient nor uncompromising man, one who loves jumping and escapades; I myself have set this crown on my head!...
- You higher men, the worst about you is: none of you has learned to dance as a man ought to dance -- to dance beyond yourselves! What does it matter that you are failures!
- How much is still possible! So learn to laugh beyond yourselves! Lift up your hearts, you fine dancers, high! Higher! And do not forget to laugh well!
- This laugher's crown, this rose-wreath crown: to you, my brothers, do I throw this crown! I have canonized laughter; you higher men, learn -- to laugh!...
- 'This is my morning, my day begins: rise up now, rise up, great noontide!'
- ... Thus spake Zarathustra and left his cave, glowing and strong, like a morning sun emerging from behind dark mountains.
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