Buddha was a biologist according to meditation guru Wes Nisker, author of Buddha’s Nature. Buddha was thought to not believe in God yet everything that he taught expanded a spiritual awareness and consciousness guiding people to the highest expression of self.
The Buddha said that “everything we need to know about life can be found inside this fathom-long body. ~Wes Nisker
In Secrets of Your Cells, I suggest that God was a biochemist. After all who designed the structures and chemical processes that make life possible. Whatever you call that force – God, Great Spirit, Nature or the Laws of the Universe, there is an intelligence in our molecules that allows them to come together in perfect ways to build life. Whether it’s God, the Divine Force, natural laws, it is a Miracle that we have come to be.
According to a Buddhist concept, when we let go of our attachments, we mature on our spiritual journey. So it is with our cells. when they LET GO of their attachments, they can stop repeating their patterns and evolve into more mature cellular citizens. They move farther along in their life’s journey.
For decades, scientists have known that our cytoskeleton, the microtubules in our cells, were resposible for helping cells move, change shape, and divide, Now they’ve learned that these parts of our cells are also responsible for attaching and letting go, managing the tension of the cells that affects the expression of their genes.
Daniel Ingber, a medical scientist at Harvard University, discovered that changes in a cell’s physical state, its tension, alters its genes. The process of balances these physical states or tensions is called TENSEGRITY. For instance, a cell that is stretched out and attached to a petri dish has one fate – reproduction. When it looses some of its tension and attachments to the dish, it can mature. A cell’s tension and shape orchestrate its life, death, and abilties. All the cells in the dish, or your body, have the exact same genes. Yet depending on their environment and their physical state, certain genes will be expressed while others are silenced. The strings of your cells, the micromatrix, regulates all of this. 
DNA
All cells in the body carry the same genes. One gene program is launched by a tug, a pull, a sticky attachment, while another set of genetic instructions is launched when there is a letting go.
Cells that are attached and stretched to their limits make copies of themselves, over and over repeating the same pattern. Cells that let go of their sticky attachements, yet still retain flexibility and strength, express their powers to maturity. Cells that completely let go – round up on themselves, express a very gentle death.
Letting go and moving through life from one change to another brings the maturing of our spiritual being. In the end we discover that to love and to let go can be the same thing… Both allow us to touch each moment of this changing life and allow us to be there fully for what arises next.
Jack Kornfield ~ A Path with Heart
Could the idea of letting go of attachments to achieve spiritual maturity
have arisen only from philosophical and psychological concepts? Or did clues for this idea originate with our cells?