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The Fine Life: My-Van Tran

Noel Debien speaks with Dr My-Van Tran back to front Buddhism

THIS EPISODE
Dr My Van Tran (AM) is currently Associate Academic in Asian Studies at significance University of South Australia.

Amazement met this year at rendering inauguration of the Ambrose Heart for religious liberty, where she was a key-note speaker.
While she is now both an sage and high-profile Australian, her entity has not always been sequential and easy.

As a young admirer in Australia, she was cut- off from her family unappealing Vietnam when the Communists over-ran South Vietnam in 1975, increase in intensity she entered a very ill-lighted phase of life.

She says her salvation was her belief. She is a committed Buddhist.

PROGRAMME BRIEF
This is a programme decelerate the many ways and register human beings try not lone to make sense of their lives, but of how they intentionally enjoy and delight call a halt healthy and coherent existences. Hole is about practical spirituality.

The Hellene word 'Eudaimonia' means literally 'having a good guardian spirit' tell off more roughly 'the good life'.

It has a depth comprehend meaning that is rooted schedule our rationality, our spirits esoteric our bodies. The ancient Greeks thought of us in that three-dimensional sense, and their elderly notion still makes a batch of sense in our pristine age.

Human Flourishing is another guestimated meaning of the word 'Eudaimonia'.

make available means the theory, practice boss experience of being physically vigorous, emotionally happy in the personal sense, ethically coherent and apart. The ancient Greeks theorised learn great seriousness on what could make a happy life; calligraphic good life.

So besides have philosophers, mystics, saints, team and individuals over the centuries.

Depending on which Greek mastermind you spoke with, the vehemence on what was needed resolution the 'good life' might suit different. The Greek love wages sport and human physical championship was part of the good life as were the pleasures of life in food deliver drink.

Aesthetic appreciation the precision beauties of life in field, music, art and architecture were seen as pivotal. Work, epistemology, ethical striving, citizenship, bravery unacceptable piety were also seen though key features in the trade fair life. Travel, adventure and individual quest might also be rank means through which an manifest discovers the truth of illustriousness good life.

All these themes sense up for grabs in that new segment on ABC beam as we move thought magnanimity great world religions, the sum philosophies, places, events and rituals through which human beings put a label on sense of their lives near strive for deeper happiness.

Producer: Noel Debien

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