Wednesday, May 31, 2017

A Life of Labels


As I mention in my profile, my journey of awareness led me out of the rich subculture of Christian fundamentalism that I was born into and brought me to the more spiritually satisfying land of mainline Protestantism in my 30s.

But my travels didn’t end there. I kept asking questions and looking for answers. Christian Gnosticism. Buddhism. Taoism. Jump forward a few decades, and now I tell people I’m a profane Presbyterian Zen Taoist.

What I find interesting is that when I tell people this, they don’t ask me about the Zen part or about the Taoist part or even the Presbyterian part. They ask me about the profane part.


2 comments:

Galen Pearl said...

Ha! That's funny. And revealing! So the question is, are you satisfied with your current "label"? What does it mean to you?

HK Stewart said...

Galen:

As we both know, a label is not the thing it labels, but we need labels so we can create a world we can understand. I'm not really a profane Presbyterian Zen Taoist. I'm just me.

But I like the way it sounds.

H. K.