A Spiritual Being Having Human Experience - by Khuyen

This week, I want to share a little bit more about spirituality, an elephant in the room topic in most of my writing here. First is some context about this “S” word. Like many other Millennials, I didn’t like the label of “spiritual” or “atheist” at all and for a while wanted to reject all labels. To my later dismay, even that could still be labeled as “non-conformist”. There is no way to escape labeling, so I may as well see it for what it is: a name that helps people make sense of life. Yet whatever the label is, my interest has been about the deeper nature of our experience, especially in the simple day-to-day. Which brings me to this week’s topic.. (a famous scene in the Japanese anime, Spirited Away, where the dragon-horse is a spiritual being who eventually takes the form of a handsome man) This week’s inquiry begins with a quote that has struck me since the very first time I encountered it as a 20-year-old seeker. "We are not a human being having spiritual experience. We are a s

This week, I want to share a little bit more about spirituality, an elephant in the room topic in most of my writing here. First is some context about this “S” word. Like many other Millennials, I didn’t like the label of “spiritual” or “atheist” at all and for a while wanted to reject all labels. To my later dismay, even that could still be labeled as “non-conformist”. There is no way to escape labeling, so I may as well see it for what it is: a name that helps people make sense of life. Yet whatever the label is, my interest has been about the deeper nature of our experience, especially in t