The will to survive is the basic instinct. Because it is conducted by humans, science is harnessed to this tenet first and foremost. All of our scientific breakthroughs, no matter how far reaching, are doomed to frustration not because regardless of the miraculous new palatives which may even some day cause death to surrender its sting we die, but because immortality of the body-mind is fools' gold. What we are precedes and succeeds immortality. So when I read of a new Alzheimer's drug of great potential I have mixed feelings. On the one hand I hope it succeeds and relieves the human suffering, and on the other hand I wonder whether these ever more sophisticated efforts to prop up the body-mind divert our attention from true liberation. We waste time trying to polish a mirror that does not exist.
"Do your duty with one hand and with the other hold to God. After the duty is over, you will hold to God with both hands." - Ramakrishna
"Do your duty with one hand and with the other hold to God. After the duty is over, you will hold to God with both hands." - Ramakrishna
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