For a mindfulness literature raises one more bridge between western and eastern wisdom, by pointing at buddhism as the path to knowledge. The dissertation reveals the creative process of the novel O homem dos patos, from the author herself, in two schemes. The first refers to the framing of her knowledge about the world around the Three characteristics: Anicca (Impermanence), Anatta (Egolessness) and Dukkha (Suffering). The second explains how this knowledge is directly and indispensably connected to the practices of Satipatthana (Mindfulness) and Vipassana meditation (Insight meditation), and how these affect the literary exercise. Excerpts of the novel are interwoven with the dissertation, which is an entirely new literary work.