{"id":6133,"date":"2016-10-16T05:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T05:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/16\/sunday-morning-sermon-awareness-of-death-as-cure-for-existential-drift\/"},"modified":"2016-10-16T05:08:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T05:08:56","slug":"sunday-morning-sermon-awareness-of-death-as-cure-for-existential-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/16\/sunday-morning-sermon-awareness-of-death-as-cure-for-existential-drift\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Morning Sermon: Awareness of Death as Cure for Existential Drift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our tendency is to drift through life. If life is a sea, too many of us are rudderless vessels, at the mercy of the prevailing winds of social suggestion. Death in its impending brings us up short: it forces us to confront the whole of one's life and the question of its meaning. Death is thus instrumentally good: it demands that we get serious. To face it is to puncture the illusion that one has all the time in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

You might be dead before nightfall. In what state would you like death to find you?<\/span><\/p>\n

East and West, death has served as the muse of philosophy and of existential seriousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gotama the Buddha<\/em>: "Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence!" (said to be the Tathagata\u2019s last words.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Plato<\/em>: "nothing which is subject to change…has any truth" (Phaedo<\/em> St 83).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our tendency is to drift through life. If life is a sea, too many of us are rudderless vessels, at the mercy of the prevailing winds of social suggestion. Death in its impending brings us up short: it forces us to confront the whole of one's life and the question of its meaning. Death is … Continue reading “Sunday Morning Sermon: Awareness of Death as Cure for Existential Drift”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,184,24,72,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-death-and-immortality","category-plato","category-sage-advice","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}