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My anti-spiritualistic streak

I’m finding myself in what you might call a tangiblistic or physicalistic episode at the moment. In fact, I’ve found myself adopting more and more of guichemot‘s views – for those of you who have seen him around i0.

This is a little amusing, because it is the complete opposite mindset from the one I was in a year ago, when I convinced myself that all things physical or tangible were ultimately of no consequence due to their ephemeral natures. Back then, I was caught in the trap of kong tan (空談), or empty talk. For the longest time, I have been trying to find a balance between being super emptyistic and spiritualistic versus being too tangiblistic and physicalistic. Now, I’m stuck in the latter world, and quite frankly, it’s not really that bad of a feeling.

We have a Daoist Dharma class series going on in mid-August, and I’ll report back on this thereafter. In the meantime, any new posts will likely not be spiritualistically relevant.