Death

Since impermanence, emptiness, and selflessness have been such underlying themes in our explorations, consider once again for a moment the fleetingness of life. Richard Dawkins’s poignant term for this perspective is the “selfish” gene. Some time ago, biologists won the Nobel Prize for elucidating t...

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Published inMindfulness Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 1073 - 1074
Main Author Kabat-Zinn, Jon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer Nature B.V 01.04.2020
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Cell death
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
Genetic engineering
Organisms
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Summary:Since impermanence, emptiness, and selflessness have been such underlying themes in our explorations, consider once again for a moment the fleetingness of life. Richard Dawkins’s poignant term for this perspective is the “selfish” gene. Some time ago, biologists won the Nobel Prize for elucidating the mechanism of apoptosis—programmed cell death. [...]if we are aware of this dynamical process that is intrinsic to life expressing itself in the form of individual bodies, and if we align ourselves with this understanding in our own hearts, we can continue growing into ourselves while we have the chance, into what is most meaningful to us, building on what we already are, starting with where we already are, knowing that this is it.
ISSN:1868-8527
1868-8535
DOI:10.1007/s12671-020-01309-6