To: K-list
Recieved: 2002/10/11 09:38
Subject: [K-list] Re: Nietzsche
From: David
On 2002/10/11 09:38, David posted thus to the K-list:
>> All this
>> happens involuntarily in the highest degree, and
yet like a storm of
>> freedom, of unconditionality, of power, of
godliness. . . . The
involuntary
>> character of the inner image, the simile, is the
most remarkable
part; one
>> has no more the slightest idea what is image or
simile, everything
offers
>> itself as the nearest, the most adequate, the
simplest expression."
>...and it comes out in incomprehensible paragraphs
like this.
howso? it makes perfect sense to me, I've had that
experience on many occasions. are you a writer or
artist, and ever been gripped involuntarily with
something that blasts your perception apart/brings it
back together in such a way that you can literally say
or write nothing because every object and idea is
suddenly seen to have the same identical inner
essence, and at that moment, any arbitrary object or
random sentence becomes imbued with profundity that
goes far beyond your ability to ever capture it? Tou
have to grasp for metaphors not because of a lack of
them, but because of a HUGE over-abundance! that's
what he's talking about, and yes, it IS symptomatic of
weak ages that fewer and fewer people can even
understand what such things are like, let alone have
experienced them. Personally, in these times, with
the current nihilism and superficiality of this
death-trip culture we've got, I'm *glad* more people
aren't walking around K-awake. If that force gripped
lots of people all of a sudden without going through
the prior struggle and suffering and intense pains of
the purification process, it would be rampant madness
like we've never seen before.>> Friedrich Nietzsche, Kroners Taschenbuchausgabe
>>
>> quoted in Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism, Lama
Anagarika Govinda
>But then.. how would I know.. I lived in the the
Weaker Ages.
Maybe you should be glad you don't understand; I can't
even count the days of total intensity and insanity
that I wished I *didn't* have this gift, this
perspective, this consciousness. I say this
playfully, but... GET OVER IT! It's late Kali Yuga, of
course its a fucking weak age! You think most of
these robots you see walking around the streets would
be able to survive a week without their cell phones
and computers and bank accounts, etc., if (WHEN)
industrial civilization comes apart at the hinges?
*Pathetic*. What about the postmodern age, or your
life in it, is so glorious and wonderful that you feel
personally effronted by the words of a long-dead
German guy? ;)
~~jlb~~
as for the article, thats cool, I'm really into
Nietzsche, but never ran across that passage; I knew
he was K-awake (obviously!) but never knew he actually
described it so accurately in terms of its physical
symptoms - thats awesome!
david
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