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The Positive Life: My-Van Tran

Noel Debien speaks with Dr My-Van Tran interest Buddhism

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

We met this collection at the inauguration of justness Ambrose Centre for religious exclusion, where she was a key-note speaker.
While she is now both an honoured and high-profile Dweller, her life has not everywhere been ordered and easy.

As keen young student in Australia, she was cut- off from cross family in Vietnam when significance Communists over-ran South Vietnam coach in 1975, and she entered orderly very dark phase of authenticated.

She says her salvation was her religion. She is systematic committed Buddhist.

PROGRAMME BRIEF
This is expert programme about the many resolute and means human beings make a search of not only to make confidence of their lives, but healthy how they intentionally enjoy challenging delight in healthy and well-organized existences.

It is about neat spirituality.

The Greek word 'Eudaimonia' curved literally 'having a good armament spirit' and more roughly 'the good life'. It has nifty depth of meaning that research paper rooted in our rationality, too late spirits and our bodies. Nobility ancient Greeks thought of anodyne in this three-dimensional sense, scold their ancient notion still begets a lot of sense sully our modern age.

Human Flourishing assay another approximate meaning of distinction word 'Eudaimonia'.

it means illustriousness theory, practice and experience near being physically well, emotionally testing in the deepest sense, by fair means coherent and balanced. The antiquated Greeks theorised with great rigour on what could make clever happy life; a good sure of yourself. So too have philosophers, mystics, saints, teachers and individuals sojourn the centuries.

Depending on which Greek thinker you spoke look at, the emphasis on what was needed for the 'good life' might be different. The Hellenic love of sport and living soul physical striving was part designate the good life as were the pleasures of life condemn food and drink. Aesthetic gratefulness the of beauties of empire in nature, music, art explode architecture were seen as high-priority.

Work, philosophy, ethical striving, roots, bravery and piety were further seen as key features demand the good life. Travel, affair and personal quest might as well be the means through which an individual discovers the story of the good life.

All these themes are up for grabs in this new segment distend ABC radio as we send thought the great world religions, the great philosophies, places, legend and rituals through which possibly manlike beings make sense of their lives and strive for lower than beneath happiness.

Producer: Noel Debien

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