Season 2 - The Transcendent as the Overall Frame of Being
Plus: Open Thread for the Listener Questions, we'd love to hear from you!
Welcome to Season 2 of the Burning Phoenix!
Today we're talking about the "Beyond" or Transcendent as the long term stable Big Picture for our thinking - partly as Dante describes it in the Divine Comedy, after a speech of Divine Wisdom from Beatrice.
And we have two questions for you:
1. What is your favorite discovery/learning moment that you've had from reading medieval/classical literature? Is there a specific moment that changed your life or the trajectory of your life?
2. What is the biggest conundrum/dilemma you're trying to solve in your life at the moment? Then we'll try to connect this to the timeless wisdom from the old Traditions.
Leave us a comment below, we’d love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks for listening, and enjoy!
Rich
The Divine Scolding was very profound and concept he could fall again, when she says to let him keep suffering. Deepens the idea of suffering, other than that I kind if think of it as a big total that links itself. Uglianonand the tower too, how hate and betrayal don’t let go and it puts us at the fall of man w the idiom in the text.
1). Yes: my greatest discovery from reading medieval literature was that Dante inserted a mention of free will at the very center of his Divine Comedy, as if to say: everything hinges on that. In the Christian life, all we have to focus on is our will, because that’s where God gave us our freedom. The decisions that we make with our free will are, ultimately, responsible for the state of our soul: anxious and angry, or peaceful and joyous. In this sense, Christianity is a recipe for happiness.