RD BK PUTLIVE

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Nor does longevity mean merely notching more and more birthdays as we slowly wither away. This is what happened to a hapless mythical Greek named Tithonus, who asked the gods for eternal life. To his joy, the gods granted his wish. But because he forgot to ask for eternal youth as well, his body continued to decay. Oops.

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This ethos is ingrained in anyone who goes into medicine: nobody dies on my watch. We approached our cancer patients in the same way. But very often it was clear that we were coming in too late, when the disease had already progressed to the point where death was almost inevitable. Nevertheless, just as with the boy in the car crash, we did everything possible to prolong their lives, deploying toxic and often painful treatments right up until the very end, buying a few more weeks or months of life at best

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How does self-consciousness arise?

Although it is extremely difficult to figure out how "consciousness" in the sense of qualia arises, an original model to interpret “non-self” which is developed on the basis of both the scientific mechanism behind Buddhist meditation and the empirical materials of Theravada Buddhism reveals the mechanism of how "self-consciousness" arises.

An ideal interpretation should be able to answer two questions simultaneously: what is the essence of "non-self" and how does the illusion of self arise? (They are two sides of the same coin.) Obviously, “the illusion of self” in Buddhism is just “self-consciousness” in western philosophy.

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Daily life may seem trivial and routine, but in fact it contains a multitude of incidents, at once rich, expansive, and touching.

–YU HUA

a Exercise is by far the most potent longevity “drug.” No other intervention does nearly as much to prolong our lifespan and preserve our cognitive and physical function. But most people don’t do nearly enough—and exercising the wrong way can do as much harm as good. A The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. —John F. Kennedy a