Directed by Artbyramana. With Anil Mange, Geetanjali Mishra, Aaliya Shaikh, Alfiya Shaikh. Living Idle is a symbolic short film that reflects actions have consequences. Cozy up in any room with a fireplace; use these unique fireplace decorating ideas from HGTV.com. Idle Philosophy Born of an Idle Life. The Quincy Unitarian Church Home. Page. The list of Selected Sermons. Presented February 1. Joe Conover. Opening Words: From the epigrams of the mid- 1. Chinese writer, Chang Ch'ao. A pagan always believes in God but would not like to say so. All Chinese pagans believe in God, the. Chinese literature being the term. Creator of Things. The only difference is that the. Chinese pagan is honest enough to leave the Creator of Things in a halo of. What is. more, that feeling suffices for him. Of the beauty of the universe, the. ![]() Important Notice: Our systems indicate that you are accessing MatrixCare using Internet Explorer Versions 7, 8, or 9. With the roll out of MatrixCare 2017 R1 SP1. But that again suffices for him. He accepts death as he. He also. believes that . He does not ask for more. Talk. That is strictly. Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion. If one's. bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy.
That. is all there is to it. I read somewhere. Unitarians too often tend to be book. As a church friend, I will really do my best to avoid. After I was invited to talk today, I started rummaging around for a topic. Chinese poem I. had typed out many years ago, during college in Champaign- Urbana. You will. hear this poem as today's closing words. I carried this typed copy with. Army service, living in Japan, in Washington and back home again. We are well aware of the political implications of that. World. War I, for instance, that cost Harry Emerson Fosdick his pulpit at New. York's First Presbyterian Church when in 1. You. may recall a Herald- Whig story last month describing the . The UU's own Doug Muder, a former. Quincyan, has written and sermonized on the need for a positive humanist. Muller, writing in 1. Granted what any sensible person. I do not. think it clarifies matters to give their unoriginal sins this name. Instead. it tends to obscure the historical fact that the doctrine of original sin. It may obscure the logical necessity of such faith for. Protestant reformers saw fit to grant them. He was educated in Shanghai, at Harvard and at. Leipzig. He taught in Chinese universities in the pre- World War II years, and. United States. He was a protege of Pearl Buck. Richard Walsh, the latter the publisher of many of Lin's. English. Lin died in 1. Hong Kong where he and his wife. Taiwan after the suicide of the eldest of their three. Lin spent most of his life trying to explain the Chinese mind to. Westerners, and sometimes vice versa. Lin thought. Westerners could learn something of the gentler arts of living if only they. He asserted, with some seriousness, that the three great American. The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of. He will be the champion of human dignity and individual. All modern civilization. All. forms of pose, sham, learned nonsense, academic stupidity and social humbug. Man becomes wise because man. I believe a sane and reasonable spirit. Life has its own rhythm and beat. The Chinese attitude is to expect neither too much nor too little of. Lin sums up in the phrase . It is but common. Our lives are not in the laps of our. I think of the Spirit. Reasonableness as the highest and sanest ideal of human culture, and the. The greatest. ideal that man can aspire to is not to be a showcase of virtue, but just to. Humanized thinking is just. The logical man is always self- righteous and therefore. As far as the first is. I do not propose to enter into the question, because everything. God has in mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is. God's mind, and it is really difficult for human. What we usually end up with. God the color- sergeant of our army and. Him as chauvinistic as ourselves; . Into this question of what should be the purpose of. It is for this reason that we quarrel over the question, because our. I should not. presume that there must be necessarily a purpose, a meaning of human. As Walt Whitman says, 'I am sufficient as I am.' It is. I live and that human life exists. Viewed that way, the. What can be. the end of human life except the enjoyment of it? It came to not satisfy Lin. Lin had abandoned Christianity during. China. That homecoming was possibly rather. To some eyes and ears. I'm sure Lin seems more than a bit dated. But I think many of Lin's. Lin's. faith in the reasonable goodness of ordinary human nature, and because of his. God's. creation. Naively, and perhaps too simply - I might state Lin's general. We are born through no fault of ours, we then live our lives for better. This reality alone is good. Closing Words: The Half- and- Half Song by the 1. Chinese poet Li Mi- an is a poem. I have treasured for more than 4. Lin Yutang, its translator. Halfway in life is man's. Best state, when slackened pace allows him ease; A wide world lies halfway 'twixt heaven and earth; To live halfway between the town and land,Have farms halfway between the streams and hills; Be half- a- scholar, and half- a- squire, and half. In business; half as gentry live,And have a house that's half genteel, half plain,Half elegantly furnished and half bare; Dresses and gowns that are half old, half new,And food half epicure's, half simple fare; Have servants not too clever, not too dull; A wife who's not too simple, nor too smart.- So then, at heart, I feel I'm half a Buddha,And almost half a Taoist fairy blest. One half myself to Father Heaven IReturn; the other half to children leave - Half thinking how for my posterity. To plan and provide, and yet half minding how. To answer God when the body's laid at rest. He is most wisely drunk who is half drunk; And flowers in half- bloom look their prettiest; As boats at half- sail sail the steadiest,And horses held at half- slack reins trot best. Who half too much has, adds anxiety,But half too little, adds possession's zest. Since life's of sweet and bitter compounded,Who tastes but half is wise and cleverest. The Importance of Living: Idle Philosophy Born. Idle Life, http: //www. March 2. 0, 2. 01. The Quincy Unitarian Church Home. Page. The list of Selected Sermons.
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