I wonder whether all of this thinking and writing about spiritual issues, and approaching truth 'head-on', parallels in some way a literalist way of doing spirituality. It's like trying to think my way to an answer without first living the question.
My resolution now is to live the question through writing fiction and meditating.
Fiction is an embodiment, an enactment, of truths (I don't even like the word 'truths', but can't think of a better one), rather than a propositional statement, rather than the literal truth of non-fiction. Meditation is even further removed from doctrinal statements or creeds of any kind...
'Feng Huang / Phoenix' by Lindy Lee, 2008, downloaded 20th February, 2010, from:
http://www.suttongallery.com.au/artists/artistprofile.php?id=28.
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