Poh Ling Yeow

I think like so much of it resonated me to the point where I was just having to stop.

I actually didn't read it.

I listened to it on Audible, but I had to just stop like so often because I had to like have a big contemplate every time, you know, she made a point and I was like, yes, God damn it.

Yes.

Oh my God.

Why did someone not tell me that?

You know, you have thoughts, but when someone says it and it's real, it's not

an inkling, it's like you realize that your experience is common, not unusual.

And I think that was a strength in so much of that book for me.

I thought cultural Buddhist.

Yeah, what does that mean?

Well, you know, it's like when you inherit a religion and you don't even really know the roots or you're not practicing it in a way that is about religion

the philosophy but more out of superstition.

Like a lot of Asian religions are like that where you have, you know, you hedge your bets and you have like all the deities on the altar to cover like, you know, to cover your, you know, that the god of, I don't know, wisdom is covering your studies, you know, god of prosperity is covering your wealth.

And it's just like don't, you know, agitate the gods kind of thing, you know, make them fruit offerings and blah, blah, blah.

It's just sort of very...

It's not philosophical.

It's more sort of like fear and superstition based in a way.

Hey, I know you haven't heard from me in a while, but I kind of need a good parking spot.

Well, you know, I actually went through a stage of even, I went, I was kind of