AP+

Hedera DLT to provide digital infrastructure for major Australian financial systems. Let's See. 

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"Australian Payments Plus (AP+) brings together Australia’s three domestic payment providers, BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia, into one integrated entity.

Bringing these businesses together enables AP+ to create a more competitive and coordinated Australian payments organisation that is strategically placed to respond to the impacts of regulatory and technological change today, and into the future.

Our capabilities include Australia’s domestic debit network, real-time payments infrastructure, secure bill payments, digital identity exchange, QR code payments and experiences, and open wallet solutions."

Centre For Action & Contemplation

"There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. 

The first task is to build a strong “container” or identity; 

the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. 

The first task we take for granted as the very purpose of life, which does not mean we do it well. 

The second task, I am told, is more encountered than sought; few arrive at it with much preplanning, purpose, or passion.

We are a “first-half-of-life culture,” largely concerned about surviving successfully. 

Probably most cultures and individuals across history have been situated in the first half of their own development up to now, because it is all they had time for. 

We all try to do what seems like the task that life first hands us: establishing an identity, a home, relationships, friends, community, security, and building a proper platform for our only life.

But it takes us much longer to discover “the task within the task,” as I like to call it: 

what we are really doing when we are doing what we are doing.…

Problematically, the first task invests so much of our blood, sweat, tears, and years that we often cannot imagine there is a second task, or that anything more could be expected of us. 

“The old wineskins are good enough,” we say, even though according to Jesus they often cannot hold the new wine. According to him, if we do not get some new wineskins, “the wine and the wineskin will both be lost” (Luke 5:37–39). 

The second half of life can hold some new wine because by then there should be some strong wineskins, some tested ways of holding our lives together. 

But that normally means that the container itself has to stretch, 

die in its present form, or even replace itself with something better.

Various traditions have used many metaphors to make this differentiation clear: 

beginner and proficient, novices and initiated, milk and meat, letter and spirit, juniors and seniors, baptized and confirmed, apprentice and master, morning and evening, 

Only when we have begun to live in the second half of life can we see the difference between the two. 

Yet the two halves are cumulative and sequential, and both are very necessary. 

We cannot do a nonstop flight to the second half of life by reading lots of books about it. 

Grace must and will edge us forward.  

 

“God has no grandchildren. God only has children,” as some have said. 

Each generation has to make its own discoveries of Spirit for itself.

No pope, Bible quote, psychological technique, religious formula, book, or guru can do the journey for us. If we try to skip the first journey, we will never receive its real fruits or understand its limitations."

by Richard Rohr 

Centre For Action & Contemplation

"The Task Within The Task"

Introducing the first half of life and the necessary journey beyond it. 

"...that normally means that the 

container itself has to stretch, 

die in its present form, 

or even replace itself with 

something better."

The Hedera Community is 

Creating & Building Something Better.  

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