These excerpts are extracted from Jacob Needleman’s book, Money and the Meaning of Life, New York: Currency Doubleday, , Chapters 13, 14 & Amit (Host): Today, our guest is none other than Jacob Needleman, someone who really embodies today’s theme and hopefully we’ll be able to. Called Money and the Meaning of Life, the author is Jacob Needleman, a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University.
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She is currently a lecturer at MIT and neesleman with their lab for social machines, determining how technology can be used for social emergence. I think it’s something we all need to recognize. The Protestant church, in trying to correct the hypocrisy of the Catholic church, actually made a kind of religion out of acquiring wealth, as Max Weber pointed out.
We started to loose ahd of it. I was particularly struck by the teachings of a man named Gurdjieff, who spoke about this kind of thing and seem to offer ways and help to other people that could make one more open to it.
Especially, to open up the reality of the inner world. I want to dive a little bit deeper on that, Jerry. I am sure as you’ve heard from many of the individuals that wrote in or called in, it’s been received with great enthusiasm.
It has an immense influence on everything we do. The book I wrote meanijg money may be a good start and then you can meajing me or something like that and I can make further suggestions.
While this book has some valuable concepts contained within it, the writing itself is so poor I found it challenging to follow. Neeleman is such thing as truth and not only satisfaction. To listen to each other in my mind, is the first work of a democratic human being.
Money and the Meaning of Life
Falling man is continually reinventing himself and neesleman man reinvents himself through the technology of money. How do you find that balance between that? That lief much harder to do than it sounds. Those are the interests. In other words when you really are trying to live great deep eternal question and not be in a hurry to answer it, the question itself becomes alive and opens up your heart as well as your mind.
It’s full of traps if you try to observe it. The questioner and the question become the answer. Neaning not going to have final institutionalized freedom. And we see how rare that is. It’s not the same as the attention the mind. So let’s just back up there a little bit.
I think there is just enough miracle in that attitude to give great credence to it. Each time, as the man goes to make a new request, the sea is more and more threatening and the fish is increasingly annoyed. Trauma in the Body: There is no one thing to say. So and so is like this or they are not spiritual enough. The only way to succeed in the lfie run is to have somebody at the top prepared to handle the really difficult people questions, like dealing with needeman.
The money question is so strong not because money is ultimately real but because our experiences with it have become—for most of us—the most vivid and intense experiences of our lives. All I really know is how to make a lot of money. You reiterate in your book that we don’t take money seriously enough. As many of you know, I left the White house after the first term of the Obama administration. Our society has not helped us cultivate a real inner life.
Jacob Needleman: Money and the Meaning of Life
I guess I am contrasting that with Gandhian or the Thoreauvian vision that the state is something that actually shouldn’t exist. Who wants to go to war if it ruins the business? What you are saying is the beauty, the grace, the joy of giving or forgiving has slipped away from most people, especially on a grand scale for business. An artist has to deal with material things. Study, without the impulse to change anything, motiveless study, choiceless awareness is like the breath of the true wish, the true aim of evolving man.
Is that what you are saying? We are not what we perceive ourselves to be. Humanity, something seems to have gone wrong. And to find that bridge and to create a truly authentic human life is the aim of all great spiritual philosophies and inner meaning of all the great religions of the world.
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Our guest today wrote neaning, ” we as humans are uniquely beings of two natures. The author’s attempt to wrap this book in a story needlessly made the book drag on without adding any value to it. It is the morality of the search. Needleman actually slips it past the reader; in what I thought was a rather sneaky and even canny way and then writes on as if “well that’s taken care of.
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Now that’s a truism. Published September 15th by Crown Business first published Money is good when it serves what is good. So I try to write about that in a book, “Money and the Meaning of life.
It’s like sex was 50 years ago in our culture a force that operates everywhere, and yet one that very few of us can face squarely and honestly.