What does it actually mean to be a "human"?
in Spirituality ·
Sophia King42 said:Someone once asked a sage what defines a human being—are we spiritual beings or material ones? His answer was simple:
"We are spiritual beings having a material experience, not material beings having a spiritual one." I'd like to hear from the community: which side of that coin do you land on?
But what does "spiritual being" even mean, really? Like, can someone give me a real-world example of one?
And then there's the "material being" part. What's an example of that? Some kind of animal or a plant?
I just want to make sure we're actually talking about the same thing here. It feels like a lot of fancy labels that everyone interprets differently, while there might not be much substance behind them at all...