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Jiang says the soul ultimately longs for only one thing, the divine light, while bodily senses diversify desire into food, sex, status, and other confusions.
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Confusion
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Jiang accepts the student's formulation by saying the movement is from confusion into clarity.
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Jiang says he began reading the Divine Comedy about four years before this lecture and initially understood almost nothing, with long periods of confusion and frustration that were not solved by watching explanatory videos online.
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"Yeah, it's called phantom limbs, okay? Phantom limbs, okay? Where, like, you lose, actually, your entire arm, but you still, at some level, think..."
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"Right. Yeah. So the idea is it's confusion that can only that leads to clarity. Right. OK. Thank you. OK. So let's let's continue...."
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"I had no idea what I was reading. I mean, I started reading Divine Comedy about four years ago for the first time. I..."
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"So I'm like, oh, my God. I'm going to, I am going to be a complete idiot. Okay? But I really, really want to..."
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"...showed herself alert and saintly to cast the siren into much confusion oh virgil virgil tell me who is this most scornfully and he..."
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"...May the strangeness plead for me if there has been some confusion in my pen. And though my eyes were somewhat blurred, my mind..."
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"...to figure out, OK, how do I escape this like terrible confusion that I feel, which is what I feel like this student brought..."
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"...was down in the Strait of Hormuz. By the way, there's confusion as to how it was down. There are some who speculate it..."
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"...it leads to sin. It leads to errors. It leads to confusion. You understand? If we all think alike, the world is not perfect...."
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"There's a lot of confusion as to how this war started. Even today, no one actually knows how this war started. But I think..."
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"there's a lot of confusion and disagreement because if we go back to January of this year and you go back to the World..."
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"...my own opinion in my opinion it is very balanced that confusion is the balance between a male and female between uh in and..."
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