I think that's all of us as teenagers, user. The explanation is pretty easy, I think, teenagers are sponges, they don't think for themselves, even though they think they do, ergo, daddy issues because school tells them their parents are old fashioned.
Good read overall mate. Eastern doctrines are weird; I get where you're coming from with Sunyata. It's spooky stuff, I've gone within before, finding what feels like a deep, black lake and diving in there. Tough to maintain, have to force yourself into it, but deuce if it's not an entire new world to explore. Also tough as deuce to re-enter, impossible if you're relapsing on porn.
Why are modern Orthodox such Chinaboos?
Carson Gomez
Jace Bailey
You could call me a perennial traditionalist and I am an eastern Catholic and also very familiar with Daoism and Buddhism. Daoism talks about the manifestation of the Unnamable Name and is pretty similar to Platonic Christianity, which Eastern Christianity basically is.
You might be onto something seriously legitimate. I think it is because some people are naturally drawn to mystical, energetic, theosis-oriented traditions, and Chinese religion and Eastern Orthodoxy are both like that.
Western Latin Catholicism, with its rigid dogmas and highly nitpicky metaphysics, is fairly far away from this. Protestantism, with its sentimentalism and literalism, is also not at all like mysticism. So the only option you have left would be Eastern Orthodoxy (or Eastern Catholicism).
Austin Walker
Yes, i've noticed this to. From listening to my studies from jay dyer, and just reading the orthodox study bible. That in a metaphysical world. The idea of the divine, of being a holy creation comes into a logical conclusion. For instance idols! Even the very simple nature of painting an idol of the saints, or Jesus Christ is completely different in nature on the metaphysical, philosophical, and dogma in the west compared to the east, no wonder people take up materialism.
Leo Powell
Yes, I think the material realism of Thomas Aquinas played a big role in modern day materialism. Western Europe is Aristotle-land, and Eastern Europe is Plato-land.
Benjamin Scott
He was a Mystic
Gavin Sullivan
I'm very familiar with his works. He has a lot of good metaphysics. Doesn't change the fact that his approach is very easy to transform into materialism. And also don't change the fact that his remembered legacy on the Catholic church is different from his body of philosophy.
Evan Nguyen
Does 道 really apply? Would 理 be a fit for logos?
Bentley Davis
The book is written by Hieromonk Damascene, who was a student of Hieromonk Seraphim Rose.
Personally, I became familiarized with Taoism while studying Freemasonry and Traditionalists like Guenon before I had even heard of Orthodoxy. Fr Seraphim also studied the Traditionalists before becoming Orthodox. I didn't know there was a phenomenon of other Orthodox 'chinaboos.' Like I said, I was into Taoism beforehand, but Lao Tzu always fit the 'virtuous pagan' bill for me, and I feel as if he's religiously compatible in the same way as Plato.
Looking at and you can see the common threads here.
Isaac Long
That's an interesting description. Tell me, what do you think of the embedded video?
Grayson Edwards
Pretty good movie. I loved the soundtrack.