Von Schönwerth's "The King's Bodyguard"

The king appoints his handsomest soldier to be his bodyguard and sends him to a nobleman with a beautiful daughter.  He tells the daughter not to speak to any soldiers, but she and he grow intimate.  After there is a baby, the nobleman sends the bodyguard away for three feathers from the tail of a dragon who lives on a glass mountain.   On the way, he comes to a country where the king has lost a golden chain, and he is only allowed to leave when he promises to learn how to get it from the dragon.  The second year he does the same with a king with a barren fig tree, and the third with two men who cannot stop ferrying people across a river.   At the glass mountain, the dragon’s wife tells him to hide, that she is not supposed to talk to anyone, but she ends up getting the feathers from her sleeping husband after he comes home and finding out the information.  The soldier, on the way back, tells the ferrymen to declare, “I am free!” after their last trip with him, and they are.  He then reveals the poison fruit buried under the fig tree, and in the sixth year of his journey, he tells the king where to dig to find the golden chain, and he is rewarded with an army.     Upon returning, he sees the nobleman has been reduced to selling his dishes in the market.  He has his men smash the dishes, then again the next day when the nobleman still does not recognize him.  The father then recognizes his son-in-law, who is now allowed to marry his daughter, he himself is restored to the court, and they live happily ever after.   00:00 Podcast Intro 00:37 Summary of Von Schonwerth’s “The King’s Bodyguard” 06:26 A Drunken Storytelling   09:05 The Highest Man  11:32 A Very Intimate Relation, but It’s Not Enough 13:55 The Tyrant and Beauty 17:14 The Slick Feminine and the Glass Mountain 19:47 The Heroism and Beauty  of the King’s Bodyguard 24:26 The Nobleman, Hoarding His Daughter, Helps out Everyone 26:12 Beauty, Celebrity and Artifice 27:20 What’s with the Dragon on the Glass Mountain? 32:26 Make Yourself Small in the House of God 36:46 Not Knowing Your Task Until You Set Out 40:55 Proper Fear of the Lord 45:28 Judas and The Circuitous Rightness of Relations 51:27 Bad Leads to Good in Right Stories 54:33 Don’t Bring God Bad Vibes 56:16 Breaking Hoarded Plates and Daughters 1:01:10 The Bodyguard’s Useful Respect and Dutifulness 1:04:39 The Hurdle Philosophy and Aggressive Moral Emotions 1:10:24 Let People Have Their Suffering 1:15:27 Buddha, is There a God?   1:22:59 Uncertainty 1:24:11 Plausibility, not Certainty 1:29:16 Not Everything is a Problem   (A Clip from the episode “Von Schönwerth’s “The King’s Bodyguard”)   A “like” and “subscribe” really helps us out!  Feed the playful beast with your comments!      For the full video episode: https://youtu.be/8OCLI6nTEfg The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vq-TnaienDlJJ1ZdTknAqVn For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality.  He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness. You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado   Background Photo by Alexandro Pasqualicchio on Unsplash Statue Photo by MIGUEL BAIXAULI on Unsplash   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Photo Credits: Thiago Zanutigh on Unsplash Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash