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the clown
Ran across this quote and thought it would be of interest to other Ligotti readers:
The light touch of this comic spirit is no sacrilege. It confers resiliency, impregnability. The person who has truly realized this spirit in Zen is well on the Way. Has has arrived at the same kind of "invincibility that has often been noticed in the person of the clown or fool. He cannot finally be conquered, defeated or killed; for the Achilles' heel of Ego, attachment and desire is not there" - Zen and the Brain | |||||||||||
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"The failed magician waves his wand, and in an instant the laughter is gone." - Martin Gore
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Re: the clown
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"What does it mean to be alive except to court disaster and suffering at every moment?"
Tibet: Carnivals? Ligotti: Ceremonies for initiating children into the cult of the sinister. Tibet: Gas stations? Ligotti: Nothing to say about gas stations as such, although I've always responded to the smell of gasoline as if it were a kind of perfume. |
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Re: the clown
There is some resonance here with the Fool in the Tarot deck. In fact, many interpretations of this Major Arcana mirror what you say about the Zen fool.
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