Podcast Benomtad

We discuss similarities and differences between Dionysus, Jesus, and Buddha.
 
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We read from Hamilton’s Mythology. Many of this “afflicted” God’s followers did not drink and did believe in the afterlife.  Their worship was done in the theater and Greek poets’ greatest works were written for him; they were his servants.  They and the spectators were engaged in an act of worship of this tragic, sacrificed, and resurrected god. 
 
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Parallels of Dionysus to Jesus and Buddha, as well as differences. 
 
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From Edith Hamilton’s Mythology we relate Dionysus’s half-human, half-god “biography,” including the spread of his religion and the practices of his sometimes frenzied followers. Zeus particularly loved the wine god’s mother, who died to see him in his full form; Dionysus’ gestation finished in Zeus’s body.  Dionysus represents the beauty and frenzy of nature and women, and so life, unpredictability and volatility. A fascinating, subversive figure with a complex relation to law and society.  
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My friend LL and I read from the chapter on Dionysus in Mythology by Edith Hamilton and discuss the god of wine, life, and death.  Dionysus is quite feminine – followed by women and opposed by law-giving and -enforcing kings – and teaches liberation and compassion.  From these we draw some comparisons with Buddha and Jesus.  Dionysus also is a nearly-perfect analog with vino – the plant and cultivated drink – that which inspires poetry and crime – and I find the tragedy of that image moving.  Finally, we discuss his worship in fields outside the city and most of all, the theater, through which he lives even to this day. 

A case against positivity – in continuing the discussion about LL’s fear of losing her family and the idea of impermanence in life, we move on to ways to come to terms with this fact.  We mention art and the country of Bhutan, a famously happy place rife with sculptures made of human ash and where death is meditated on daily. LL ends with reflections on the personal memory of her grandmother’s corpse.
 
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Negative virtues may help one be better and be less self-deceptive. 
 
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The idea of impermanence seems obvious to me – look at history broadly, or look at life through a large lens, or through an individual one. But my mind revolts at this, and we suffer…
 
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Does accepting the truth of ever-present death help one embrace life? Comforted by the naturalness or universality of it. 
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