[Amalgame désordonné et légèrement modifié de mots tirés des explorations que j’ai effectué à partir d’ici : http://cometogetherarticles.yolasite.com/holy-fools.php.]
« Closely related to the Fool are his cousins: the clowns, jesters and the tricksters. All challenge convention, turning cherished beliefs and rules on their heads. Their motive is to cause us to doubt the truths we are so sure of. They spread doubt about our beliefs, our abilities, our motives, our institutions, our sanity, our loves, our laws our leaders, even our alliteration. Clowns and jesters have grave doubts about our attitudes. 'Is this seriousness really appropriate?' they ask. Others, such as the spiritual crazy wisdom masters --- the Holy Fools --- call into question our entire understanding of ourselves and the world.
What is truth? This question propels the Clown into the sacred dimension. The Truth the Clown intuits is the interconnectedness of all life. He or she knows (although it cannot be proven) that no part is more important than any other part --- no matter how big or how small --- and that the tiniest change in one part produces a profound change in the Whole. He or she sees (although it cannot be explained) that imbalance or blockage of the Life Force is the result of a person or group believing themselves to be more important than another. And the Clown can't help puncturing that over-blown self-importance with sharp humor!
A Fool is one who goes on trusting, against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; you deceive him again, and he trusts you; you deceive yet him again, and he trusts you still. Then you say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it.
Often holy fools live in voluntary poverty, because acquiring wealth is thought to build up the self and thereby block the "path to unity." Living in poverty, the fools often identify with the poor. Almost inevitably, they are forced into the role of rebel, and lead populist movements to "shake up the existing political and spiritual orders."
The Fool is like 0; it neither adds nor subtracts, but increases its power: the 1 becomes a 10; 100 becomes 1,000, etc. He combines wisdom, madness, and the folly of the spiritual adventurer, but never stays attached when it's time to move on. He lives upon the earth, yet it is as if he does not belong on the earth. All that which flatters and attracts man--wealth, glory, pleasures--was alien to them; all worldly attachments they held for nought, considering them to be hindrances to the upbringing of their inner man...
Confounding the establishment by playing Trickster is one of The Fool's most loved tricks. When this archetype is present and active in your psyche, you can be completely unpredictable and amoral -- a divinely sanctioned lawlessness that is hard to rationalize -- guided wholly by an experimental attitude toward life. In this willingness to be so un-programmed by culture, tribe, or society, we carry the makings of the Hero/Savior archetype. This provides us the archetypal impulsive curiosity that continually moves us toward the fulfillment of our ideal, though we're often surprised at how this comes about.
Fundamentally, the sacred Clowns portray the Path of Life with all of its pitfalls, sorrows, laughter, mystery, and playful obscenity. They dramatize the powerful relationships of love, the possibility of catastrophe; the sorrow of separation and death; the emerging consciousness of human beings entering into life --- into this world --- as ordinary beings with non-ordinary potential. They show the dark side; they show the light side; they show us that life is hard; and they show us how we can make it easier. If death takes everything away when it robs an individual of life, then the Clowns must be able to combat death in mock battle and wrestle life back again.
And if catastrophe is always just around the corner, the Clowns must prepare us for the worst by portraying it... and then... stabilize everything in the end of the drama. If we are there watching the Clowns, if we are perhaps the subject of the Clowns' ridicule and teasing, we will learn. Because the Clowns are just reflecting what could happen to any of us, at any time of day or year, at every turn along the Road of Life. »
« Closely related to the Fool are his cousins: the clowns, jesters and the tricksters. All challenge convention, turning cherished beliefs and rules on their heads. Their motive is to cause us to doubt the truths we are so sure of. They spread doubt about our beliefs, our abilities, our motives, our institutions, our sanity, our loves, our laws our leaders, even our alliteration. Clowns and jesters have grave doubts about our attitudes. 'Is this seriousness really appropriate?' they ask. Others, such as the spiritual crazy wisdom masters --- the Holy Fools --- call into question our entire understanding of ourselves and the world.
What is truth? This question propels the Clown into the sacred dimension. The Truth the Clown intuits is the interconnectedness of all life. He or she knows (although it cannot be proven) that no part is more important than any other part --- no matter how big or how small --- and that the tiniest change in one part produces a profound change in the Whole. He or she sees (although it cannot be explained) that imbalance or blockage of the Life Force is the result of a person or group believing themselves to be more important than another. And the Clown can't help puncturing that over-blown self-importance with sharp humor!
A Fool is one who goes on trusting, against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; you deceive him again, and he trusts you; you deceive yet him again, and he trusts you still. Then you say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it.
Often holy fools live in voluntary poverty, because acquiring wealth is thought to build up the self and thereby block the "path to unity." Living in poverty, the fools often identify with the poor. Almost inevitably, they are forced into the role of rebel, and lead populist movements to "shake up the existing political and spiritual orders."
The Fool is like 0; it neither adds nor subtracts, but increases its power: the 1 becomes a 10; 100 becomes 1,000, etc. He combines wisdom, madness, and the folly of the spiritual adventurer, but never stays attached when it's time to move on. He lives upon the earth, yet it is as if he does not belong on the earth. All that which flatters and attracts man--wealth, glory, pleasures--was alien to them; all worldly attachments they held for nought, considering them to be hindrances to the upbringing of their inner man...
Confounding the establishment by playing Trickster is one of The Fool's most loved tricks. When this archetype is present and active in your psyche, you can be completely unpredictable and amoral -- a divinely sanctioned lawlessness that is hard to rationalize -- guided wholly by an experimental attitude toward life. In this willingness to be so un-programmed by culture, tribe, or society, we carry the makings of the Hero/Savior archetype. This provides us the archetypal impulsive curiosity that continually moves us toward the fulfillment of our ideal, though we're often surprised at how this comes about.
Fundamentally, the sacred Clowns portray the Path of Life with all of its pitfalls, sorrows, laughter, mystery, and playful obscenity. They dramatize the powerful relationships of love, the possibility of catastrophe; the sorrow of separation and death; the emerging consciousness of human beings entering into life --- into this world --- as ordinary beings with non-ordinary potential. They show the dark side; they show the light side; they show us that life is hard; and they show us how we can make it easier. If death takes everything away when it robs an individual of life, then the Clowns must be able to combat death in mock battle and wrestle life back again.
And if catastrophe is always just around the corner, the Clowns must prepare us for the worst by portraying it... and then... stabilize everything in the end of the drama. If we are there watching the Clowns, if we are perhaps the subject of the Clowns' ridicule and teasing, we will learn. Because the Clowns are just reflecting what could happen to any of us, at any time of day or year, at every turn along the Road of Life. »
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