@TaiShang
What are we if not material? All expression, advancement and inner/outer experience of human condition is anchored in Material.
Material Dialectics get confused due to linguistic overlap with senseless consumerism. Hence, a new terminology is required.
The word spirituality is again a limiting expression. Mostly, its coupled with dogmatic religious expression.
Yet human condition is bound by experiencing Spirituality thorough Materiality. After all human is an expression of material world.
In my view the correct terminology must be Meta-Material for the sake of clean discourse. Instead of spirituality.
Let me give you, my friend, an example:
One acquires a garden. One takes care of it through devotion, showing Virtue...
The flowers come...which is material expression of nature...with clear purpose of propagation...yet the effect on the gardener and visitor is meta-material...in the experience loop lies the growth of 'spiritual' / Meta-Material. This process is where human condition advances in perception, appreciation of abstract ect. Something untangible!
All form of morality is bounded in Material. All of it. Can we be immoral towards what is not in existence?
You point out the very essence of the contemporary crisis (or, at least, a sizeable portion of it), in my view, which is violent action carried out in the name of morality, or martyrdom. Suicide bombing is perhaps the highest expression of misplaced morality which lacks "meta-materialism," that is, a proper, secular understanding of material reality and its meta-material (or ideal) conditions.
Then the task is to place all of these misplaced, as well as missing, concepts in their right place, to begin with. Redefine-reform religiosity, introduce a truthful narrative of materialism, and work to stop the organized religious machinery that create all the false narrative and ideology.
The measure mentioned in the OP actually is a proper one although one needs to see the scope and effectiveness of it.
The Great Tao...is what?
Is it not showing the permanent interplay of Material and Meta-Material. Physical and Meta-Physical.
Our Material Dialectics indeed need to advance and bring in a new Theoretic Framework on which we can advance Human Condition...Create Wealth with Virture. Wealth in every aspect.
I know I am biased towards the Tao. Hence, I like to avoid spirituality business given its religious overdrive.
Yet it is beautiful and advances my human condition to see the Tao in Action and Non-Action.
