Malvolio in Twelfth Night:
"Malvolio suffers within a joyous world; it is against his will that he becomes part of the fun when he is duped and made to appear ridiculous. As a character, he represents a historical group, then growing in power, whose earnestness threatened to take the joy out of life (and, incidentally, to close England's theaters.)" (A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare" by Joseph Rosenblum)
My response: In my Buddhist community we are not pushed to renounce before we have matured to the point where we don't even need to renounce, we have just moved past or transcended the whatever. The danger is blocking our energy and being not really integrated. I think this insight had not yet reached this spiritual community, and they pushed to ape spiritual advancement.
"Malvolio suffers within a joyous world; it is against his will that he becomes part of the fun when he is duped and made to appear ridiculous. As a character, he represents a historical group, then growing in power, whose earnestness threatened to take the joy out of life (and, incidentally, to close England's theaters.)" (A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare" by Joseph Rosenblum)
My response: In my Buddhist community we are not pushed to renounce before we have matured to the point where we don't even need to renounce, we have just moved past or transcended the whatever. The danger is blocking our energy and being not really integrated. I think this insight had not yet reached this spiritual community, and they pushed to ape spiritual advancement.
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