Nietzsche said that the Apollonian
principle of an eternity of beautiful form coupled with the Dionysian principle
of unmitigated change through becoming combined to form Attic Tragedy. This
dynamic was present in the Michael Jackson-Prince dichotomy. Question for you:
What did their diametrical opposition produce? What is hidden behind the masks
of tragedy and comedy? We laugh till we cry and cry till we laugh and both are
in some way cathartic. We feel relieved after a good laugh or cry. The
paradoxical coincidence of opposites has fascinated me as a concept since late
high school. My dharma name is "Turiiya", meaning "absolute
state of non-duality". Shakespeare said it best in "Hamlet":
"Nothing's either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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