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What our cells can teach us
taiyaki
Veteran
http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?source=podcast&p=1672&category=IATE&version=full
This is worth listening to or reading.
This is worth listening to or reading.
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Assuming his Research was all legit, he really just prooved the possibility of reincarnation.
This guy has spent so many years with cells, he sounds a little obsessed but in a good way lol. It obviously has had a profound effect on his life. I also never considered cells in the way he has depicted, this truely has opened up my mind a little more.
His view is very profound in moving beyong materialism and in seeing the interconnectedness of the world and the beings in it.
He does however reify his experience into a form of a self and as such isn't really the Buddhist view but none-the-less a positive one.
I don't see how he gets spirituality out of the existence of various energy fields.
Monotony will produce the characteristic
of fatigue. 3:32
”Because a sense of hearing is stimulated
in the midst of the two false, defiling
objects of movement and stillness, defiling
appearances are taken in; this is called the
nature of hearing. Apart from the two
defiling objects of movement and stillness,
this hearing is ultimately without
substance. 3:33
”Thus, Ananda, you should know that
hearing does not come from movement
and stillness; nor does it come from the
sense organ, nor is it produced from
emptiness. 3:35
”Why? If it came from stillness, it would be
extinguished when there is movement,
and you would not hear movement. If it
came from movement, then it would be
extinguished when there is stillness, and
you would not be aware of the stillness.
3:35
”Suppose it came from the sense organ,
which is obviously devoid of movement
and stillness: a nature of hearing such as
this would have no self nature. 3:36
”Suppose it came from emptiness:
emptiness would then become hearing
and would no longer be emptiness.
Moreover, if it were emptiness itself which
hears, what connection would it have with
your entrance? 3:36
”Therefore, you should know that the ear
entrance is empty and false, since it
neither depends upon causes and
conditions for existence, nor is
spontaneous in nature. 3:37
Really interesting.
Thanks!
IF you have not heard of Henrietta Lacks, you should have. She may have already have saved your life or could do so in the future. She has certainly contributed to your wellbeing and that of hundreds of millions of people.
Henrietta Lacks is responsible for great advances in numerous fields, from cosmetics to DNA research to space travel. She has helped build multi-billion dollar industries and corporations. Because of her countless millions of us live happier, healthier lives.
But not everyone has benefited. Not the people Henrietta loved the most.
By all accounts, the person Henrietta was would have been thrilled to have made such a contribution to humankind. She would have also been heartbroken to see that the huge impact she made barely benefited her family. Many of this American woman’s siblings, cousins and descendants suffered and died unnecessarily early because they did not get reasonable education and could not afford proper healthcare.
Now here is the stuff of science fiction. Henrietta herself died young, and yet part of her physical body survived and survives still. The cancer cells that killed her where the first – and for many years the only – immortal human cells. These cells lived, thrived and multiplied at astounding rates. For the first time it became possible for the scientists around the world to conduct experiments on the same “person” with almost perfect control. This meant that discoveries could be shared. Science sprang forward.
The cells that changed the world were called HeLa cells after Henrietta Lacks. Not that many scientist wondered or cared about the human that once housed the cells. For decades, those who did bother trying to find out thought the cells belonged to a fictitious woman, Helen Lane.
The cells were harvested from Henrietta without her knowledge or consent. To this day hospitals are not required to ask or notify patients if removed cells, organs or body parts are kept. Henrietta’s were taken when she was dying in the only hospital for miles around that accepted black patients. It is doubtful that even there she was given timely treatment.
Henrietta died and only then were the miraculous properties of the HeLa cells discovered. Bits of Henrietta would travel around the world and into space. They would be nuked, treated with new medicines or poisoned. They would become perhaps the single most important contribution to science of the 20th century. And her children would only learn about this decades after her death.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html