Contemptus mundi, the "contempt of the world" and worldly concerns, is a theme in the intellectual life of both Classical Antiquity and of Christianity,Contemptus mundi both in its mystical vein and its ambivalence towards secular life, that figures largely in the Western world's history of ideas. In inculcating a turn of mind that would lead to a state of serenity untrammeled by distracting material appetites and feverish emotional connections, which the Greek philosophers called ataraxia, it drew upon the assumptions of Stoicism and a neoplatonism that was distrustful of deceptive and spurious appearances.
网络释义
1、舍弃世界
一开始，神把这世上的一切从我们身边挪去──祂要我们舍弃世界（ contemptus mundi ）。我们将从权势和欲望的束缚中得释放。