Few opportunities existed for spiritual study for laypeople. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations] Reference
In this recent election, the two main candidates were both laypeople. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2009] Reference
DOBBS: So it is fully a narcotic, as we laypeople would understand it?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2003] Reference
GRACE: But how do you prepare everyday laypeople for situations unheard of?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference
Perhaps, like many laypeople, she was confused by the mathematical terms used. From Wordnik.com. [Sex In The Snoring '90S] Reference
But Heffter also sponsors clinical and basic research friendlier to laypeople. From Wordnik.com. [Craig K. Comstock: Psychedelic Medicine: Using Ecstasy to Treat PTSD] Reference
He also did so to protect the nuns and ensure them respect from the laypeople. From Wordnik.com. [A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part One: Background] Reference
It ` s the kind of thing that us laypeople are going to have a hard time analyzing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2008] Reference
These folks were, some of them, laypeople, not all lawyers, and it had to be unanimous. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2003] Reference
Most of these took place in monasteries or nunneries, and few, if any laypeople attended. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations] Reference
LEMON: Now, we often hear critical and these conditions, but what does that mean to laypeople?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2007] Reference
The monastics and laypeople would equally welcome a religious ruler who would assume this role. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 12 The Establishment of Buddhist Kingdoms by the Uighurs] Reference
LIN: In Mexico, what was missing -- and, again, I'm asking laypeople, people I meet along the way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2010] Reference
As scientists get a better physiological grasp of why we dream, laypeople have theories of their own. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
Few laypeople understand that neurological nihilism and genetic determinism have been so discredited. From Wordnik.com. [When Does Your Brain Stop Making New Neurons?] Reference
As in Tibet, a few laypeople studied with Buddhist tantric yogis, but they constituted a small minority. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations] Reference
In premodern Tibet, after all, most laypeople were illiterate and therefore unable to read Dharma texts. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations] Reference
"If we can simplify the approach, I think we may enable more laypeople to perform CPR in a cardiac arrest.". From Wordnik.com. [CPR studies find no benefit to mouth-to-mouth over chest compressions alone] Reference
It's as much for laypeople as scientists, but we hope that it will be embraced by the scientific community. From Wordnik.com. [Organizing the World in the Age of DNA] Reference
This institution is not a religious order but a personal prelature whose members are predominantly laypeople. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
We have our best, talented laypeople taking leadership roles, helping us with leadership and with governance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2003] Reference
He needed at least 56 votes and he got at least 63 from both laypeople who voted as well as clergy who voted. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2003] Reference
So far, only monks have received this degree, although in exile nuns and laypeople have begun to study for it. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 2 The Traditional Meaning of a Spiritual Teacher] Reference
Great teachers occasionally explain texts and give empowerments to large crowds of both ordained and laypeople. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations] Reference
See, a coroner ` s jury, a jury of six people, laypeople, made the final determination that this was an accident. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2008] Reference
Coming mostly from egalitarian backgrounds, Western laypeople expect the same opportunities as monks or nuns receive. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations] Reference
Whether lamas are highly realized spiritual teachers or simply ritual masters, they may be monks, nuns, or laypeople. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 2 The Traditional Meaning of a Spiritual Teacher] Reference
Consequently, most laypeople have daily contact with monastics, but still do not receive spiritual guidance from them. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations] Reference
Our next guest says money and the way it's managed by Catholic clergy and laypeople also playing a big role in the problem. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2003] Reference
A rakish lecturer on zoology at Oxford, he soon earned a reputation for wittily demystifying scientific riddles for laypeople. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Atheists Agree: Time to Let Go of God] Reference
Through vinaya training, disciples gain ethical self-discipline through keeping the vowed restraints of Buddhist laypeople or monastics. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 3 The Traditional Meaning of a Spiritual Seeker] Reference
Such work often requires financial, legal and administrative acuity exceeding the powers of even intelligent and sophisticated laypeople. From Wordnik.com. [Dissecting Limited Liability Corporations] Reference
The custom of widely teaching meditation to Buddhist laypeople began only in the nineteenth century in Sri Lanka and then spread to Burma. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations] Reference
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