Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Ayurveda teaches that humans consist of three aspects

Ayurveda teaches that humans consist of three aspects: the physical, the subtle and the causal, or body, mind and soul in Western terms. Health, according to Ayurveda is a balanced expression of all these three elements. The Five Elements in Ayurveda are different from the TCM "fire-earth-metal-water-wood", which in Ayurveda is described as "fire-earth-water-air-ether. The elemental systems of both attempt to describe the functional relationship of all phenomena in nature. However, while the more practically agrarian model of the Chinese describe metal and wood, the older more spiritual Indian 'air-ether' description is not equivalent. Continue Reading >>


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