In 2015 there will be an opportunity to reflect on future steps for
the common life of world - society.
But if the Vinaya - pitaka holds little general - reader interest, it is fundamental to an understanding of Buddhism, for the very genius of Buddhism, in its original form, was to take man out of
the common life of the world and set him apart on the way to enlightenment, which was the end of all his seeking, for this meant escape from the wheel of birth.
Both Christian ethics and Christian theology are «global bound» and, therefore, are neither strangers to nor should be intimidated by the process of globalization that is now part of
the common life of the world.
Not exact matches
And we think that oceans and water are necessary for the development
of life as we know it, so perhaps, if these kinds
of ocean
worlds are
common across the galaxy, and if that's where
life most often develops.
But whether your idea
of the good
life is a big house and a fast car, making the
world a better place, or producing work
of lasting value in your discipline, are there any
common habits that will help get you there?
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid
of your fear
of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current
world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think
of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story
of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story
of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story
of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance
of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome
of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the
common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own
life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit
of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit
of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to
live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out
of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out
of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out
of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to
life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
I wonder if I am the only reader to find Williamson's stance as offensive as Ms. Nouvelle's: here's an employee from the oh - so - liberal
world of public radio who fled to the security
of provincial
life and, through a rather sophistical analysis, passes off as
common decency,
common bigotry.
Christian existence is the
common mission to proclaim the Incarnate Son in the power
of the Spirit who extend their shared
life with the Father to a
world mired in the disease
of sin.
It is itself related to at least three other feelings arising during the playtime — a sense
of personal unity and wholeness, a gratefulness for the «
common world»
of the play community, and a recognition
of life's fundamental sacredness.
In upholding beauty, we prepare the way
of a renaissance when civilization will center its reflexion, far from the explicit principles and degraded values
of history, on this
living virtue upon which is founded the
common dignity
of the
world and man, and which we have to define now in the face
of a
world that insults it.
More importantly a relatively fast global flood as described in Genesis would have left fairly unmistakable indicators in the geologic records, e.g. a single layer
of a massive
world - wide die - off
of the entire land - base plant and animal
life in existence followed by a
common period
of re-expansion
of land - based
life from a single location.
Effective pastoral leaders will have God's people breathing together, modeling a
common way
of life that is good for the
world.
Among numerous non-Catholic constructive responses to last Year's Islamic Open Letter «A
Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like God, Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence of the role of religion in social life, the opposition of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion of common initiatives for peace&
Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch
of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like God, Man and the
world... and (on the practical level) on the defence
of the role
of religion in social
life, the opposition
of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion
of common initiatives for peace&
common initiatives for peace»
The formation
of the home leads quite naturally to the local parish, Tabernacle
of God with men, around which the local family
of God gathers for the
common life in Christ
of the Eucharist, Sacrifice and Sacrament
of the
world.
No, I mean, «a single layer
of a massive
world - wide die - off
of the entire land - base plant and animal
life in existence followed by a
common period
of re-expansion
of land - based
life from a single location.»
What pattern
of life will serve the home, the husband's work, the coming family, and at the same time fulfil the deeply felt vocation to do significant work in the
common life and the public
world?
We can sum up what actually did become the way
of Christian
living in the ancient
world by saying that the Christians
lived in the economic, political and social orders
of their time seeking new patterns but conforming to the general requirements
of the
common life, and accepting constituted authority except when it required idolatrous worship.
What we have had in British political
life under British
common law is a procrustean class system, one
of the most fixed in the
world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers
of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable
living standards until the end
of the nineteenth century.
I argued that the humanity
of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion
of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to
common inter-religious-ideological search for
world community because the movements
of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results
of the impact
of what we know
of the
life and death
of the historical person
of Jesus or
of human values from it.
Taken seriously, this could transform our economic
life and help the modern
world recover the Protestant Reformation's sense
of the sacredness
of the
common life of daily labor.
By promoting a plurality
of individual
worlds, specialization dissolves the continuity
of persons, their sense
of living a
common life and having
common concerns.
Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality
of human
life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all
of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both
of the «Christian thing» and
of the
worlds in which the «Christian thing» is
lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal
of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal
common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths
of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types
of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?
The thinking Catholics
of the
world need to get behind these Nuns who are in the trenches the way Jesus was trying to elevate the
common man to greater spirituality and a better
life.
Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception
of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means
of achieving real if limited justice for human
life in the
world, and a corresponding theory
of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus
of injustice and the goals
of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement
of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms
of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those
common goals.
Yusuf Qaradawi (the most influential Muslim cleric in the
world today, the spiritual head
of the Muslim Brotherhood) said: «Islam is not a religion in the
common, distorted meaning
of the word, confining its scope only to the private
life of man.
We also need a
life of dialogue for the fulfillment
of common task in the
world.
Visit people, talk to them, bring them together, have a meal, talk about
life, solve the
world's problems, drink a glass
of wine, walk along the road, fish, collect friends around you, share
common sense advice, solve the odd predicament.
But as I hope my earlier analysis
of the scientific writing on
life extension made clear, there is no working picture or vision
of what our
lives, as individuals or
living in
common, might actually be like in the
world that science might bring about.
Whilst we may indeed vary in our relationship to matters which are indifferent — what you eat and drink and what you shall wear (which, as Christ teaches Himself, are
of no major concern in regards to God's Kingdom)-- we should all share a
common bond in regards to the truth conveyed through the
living word — that God was in Christ, reconciling the
world to Himself.
But I did demur from what I thought is an unduly «church - centric» approach that does not care enough for the secular
world as an arena
of mission in our daily callings, and that seems too closed to the «
world» as a source for building up a more wholesome
common life.
We all
live in a developing
world and our
common survival depends on how we understand how much we need to
live and how much
of what we have is a show
of power and prestige.
Of the two ecumenical movements in our time the organizational effort to develop
world - wide institutions takes precedence in many minds over that spiritual, psychological, intellectual and moral
common life, transcending all national boundaries, which seeks institutions through which to express itself.
As I thought I had made reasonably clear in my article, the just war way
of thinking about the moral exigencies
of world politics begins with a presumption for justice — a presumption that the magistrate has the moral obligation to defend the
common good, even at the risk
of his own
life — and then proceeds to a moral analysis
of the various means available for securing justice, which can include proportionate and discriminate armed force.
There are people all over the
world who have never doubted the interdependence, inter-relatedness and
common welfare
of all
of creation and who have
lived conscious that they have no right to pillage and despoil the earth.
In other ways also the churches in the New
World seem to be «American» or «democratic» and to participate primarily in the
common life of the «free society.»
Either American democracy is
living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a
common perspective on
life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent
world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety
of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp
of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.
Equally important, the two foci
of each dimension
of practical theology — one in the church and one in the
world — help to encourage a dialectical relationship between the Christian faith community and other perspectives and efforts to shape our
common life.
The
world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation
of world society's awareness,
common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick
of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation
of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's
living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success
of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product
of further weapons detouring
of human initiative.
An obvious difficulty is that there is no
world government undergirded by a
common set
of life - fulfilling values and supported by the necessary force and administrative efficiency to save the
world from atomic destruction, starvation, and environmental catastrophe.
She's also
Living in a post-9 / 11
world where reports
of funamental religious groups threats are
common.
The Hebrews thus were quick to act against practices in the ancient
world that were
common to other people but which violated the principle
of the sacredness
of life.
The church does not need a «revived» Sunday school that
lives up to the
common misperceptions
of its mission, but instead one that has discarded the stereotypical shackles that have limited its effectiveness in the modern
world.
Editor's note: Gabe Lyons is author
of «The Next Christians: Seven Ways You Can
Live the Gospel and Restore the
World» and founder
of the Q, a learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the
common good in society.
The literature
of our time, from Narnia to Harry Potter to The Matrix to Percy Jackson to Twilight all share the same deep
common thread: the uneasy feeling that there is another
world beyond the one we see and feel in our everyday
lives, and that it is in some ways more «real» than the «real
world».
Although he
lives in a
world of common sense, he knows that nuclear science, space exploration, and studies in neurology and brain chemistry are changing the picture
of the
world.
The objection assumes that attention to the
common life of congregations would tend to disengage theological schooling from serious attention to the broader
world of the congregation's host culture and its global setting.
Two challenges seem to loom large in the modern
world including India which is in the process
of modernization; one,
of humanizing the technological revolution to serve the poor and protect the ecological basis
of life; and the other,
of building a secular state and
common civil society with openness to religious insights in a situation
of religious pluralism.
May the elemental gods, the true sons
of God find favor in these cherishing crevice - found sons
of a
common life man that they may not be afflicted with this
world's power based truancies but rather they should carry upon them their angst from their manhoods till their natural deaths.
After some thirty years
of study, including several trips
of exploration round the
world, Darwin outlined a theory
of biological evolution, which was destined to revolutionize the
common view
of the origins
of life.
The
common explanation for its existence has been a theory
of social deprivation; the
lives of its members are so harsh and deprived that they desire to escape this
world for the glory
of heaven above.