by Doug Hammack | Jun 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
NOTE: I’m outlining the next series of blogposts (which I will be using to hammer out my thinking for my next book). While I’m doing that, and since our spiritual community is giving a summertime focus to meditation, I thought I’d repost this blog...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve been reworking a bunch of format things on my blog, and somehow I turned off notifications when people post a comment. I just thought nobody was commenting. In fact, I was feeling kind of bad, thinking to myself… “I thought that was a pretty...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Some concluding remarks for this series of posts on keeping our mortality in our consciousness. Each of us has been given the gift of birth. Each of us has been given an inevitable death. That is an inescapable truth. It is reality as reality is. When we keep it in...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
As I said in the last post, I’ve spent a lot of my life as a control freak. This has caused me no small amount of trouble. It appears from the Facebook feedback that I am not alone. Even if control is not your go-to strategy for making the world work for you, it’s...
by Doug Hammack | May 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
In the last post I told a story about the origins of my control-freakish-ness. I said in this post I’d link that story to the ancient wisdom of holding our own mortality in conscious awareness (see the whole series). The link is this – death consciousness awakens us...
by Doug Hammack | May 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
In the last few posts, we’ve seen that both Greeks and Buddhists are unanimous in advising spiritual seekers not to lose sight of the inevitability of their own deaths. “Good for the soul,” they say. In these next few posts, we’ll see that...
