Guest guest Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 On 6-Jul-06, at 3:42 AM, ayurveda wrote: > In my early training i was taught that at certain stages of > development mankind ate carnivorously and at other times he did > not, which was to do with the development of mankind as a species > or the use of appropriate incarnating tools required for mankind as > a spiritual being. at no point have humans been carnivorous - hominids and the later humans have always been omnivorous, sometimes eating more plant food, sometimes more animal food, depending on the climate, season etc you can find a good overview of human dietary evolution here: http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview1c.shtml#timeline% 20start http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes/conferences/wburg/posters/ sboydeaton/eaton.htm > Along the way we learned that to increase aggression in soldiers > they were fed meat. i hope we have established that humans historically ate meat among many other types of food, and so soldiers have simply eaten what was already available - it wasn't like they were all vegetarians, decided to have a war and then started to eat meat... given that soldiers are generally big people hoisting about heavy weaponry, simple experience would have taught them to emphasize calorie-rich animal products to meet their energy needs - comparatively, plant foods don't provide as many calories, and given these significant energy requirements you would have to be eating constantly, which isn't all that desirable during a battle > Since we mostly all agree that there are two basic emotions, love > and fear and from these two come all emotions known to man since this is an Ayurvedic group, probably we should try to apply the concept of tridosha, and in this regard there are three basic emotions, which arise from manas (the mind) vata: fear pitta: anger kapha: greed these are different, not just in name, but in quality, but of course, like the doshas, they are interdependent in buddhism fear becomes delusion or ignorance, which in a sense is exactly what fear is - ignorance of truth love however isn't considered an emotion - it is the expression of sattva, the natural state of the mind just like we confuse our the self (atma) with the ego (ahamkara), we often confuse the universal manifestation of love with personal love, which is a co-mingling of love with emotions such as greed, giving rise to attachment, causing fear (of loss/change) or anger; the features of this are the same for our intelligence, or buddhi, which gives rise to mind (manas), which becomes a tool of the ego (ahamkara) - in this respect love, buddhi, sattva are all the same best... todd Caldecott todd (AT) toddcaldecott (DOT) com www.toddcaldecott.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.